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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

Cars That Think

Corporate Cash The idea of private digital currencies goes back to at least 1994, when the late Edward de Bono wrote of the “IBM dollar.” In de Bono’s vision, “large manufacturing corporations” should create their own currencies, which could be used to buy their products.

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Volvo Car Corporation developing flywheel kinetic energy recovery system; considering broad application

Green Car Congress

Volvo Car Corporation (VCC) has received a grant of 6.57 The flywheel technology is relatively cheap. The flywheel that Volvo Car Corporation will use in its current test car is made of carbon fibre, weighs about 6 kg, and has a diameter of 20 centimeters. Flywheel KERS component details. Click to enlarge.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

Green Car Congress

Their goal is to test an innovative electrolyzer concept for the cheap production of green (CO 2 -free) hydrogen for a decarbonized future. Taka Solar Corporation is developing a solar panel that utilizes an advanced tube-based architecture to package perovskites.

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Why Are Modern Vehicles So Much Bigger?

The Truth About Cars

Safety standards have required the implementation of systems that often won’t fit into older/smaller designs and loopholes in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards have resulted in manufacturers sizing up models to exploit regulatory blind spots. But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been taking place over the last few decades.

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BNEF: steel industry set to pivot to hydrogen in green push; additional $278B for clean capacity and retrofits

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Government and corporate net-zero commitments are pushing the steel industry to cancel out its emissions by 2050. Hydrogen and recycling are likely to play a central role in reducing emissions from steel production. Efforts to decarbonize steel production are central to the net-zero aspirations of China, Japan, Korea and the European Union.

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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The DRC’s cost competitiveness comes from its relatively cheap access to land and low engineering, procurement and construction, or EPC, cost compared to the US, Poland and China. This is due to the DRC’s proximity to cathode raw materials and heavy reliance on hydroelectric power plants.

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Was the Jeep Wrangler 4xe 2021’s 3rd Highest-Selling EV in the US?

EV Adoption

Especially in this day and age of consumer mistrust of corporations, transparency is of utmost importance. credit off the the cap cost makes it a real cheap lease on 53k Jeep. One development that could positively or negatively affect sales of the 4xe later in 2022 is if Congress passes changes to the federal EV tax credit.

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