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10 ways Velotric’s electric bikes are built differently: Deep-dive on the Discover 2

Baua Electric

As more cities and states require UL certification for e-bikes to be legally sold, having this important level of testing already secured is a major advantage. If you’ve ever tested a budget bike with a loud, clickity-clackity front fork, you’ve experience cheap suspension.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. Today, even Hewlett-Packard Co. What’s NeXT?

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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 Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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The opportunities for private-parties to buy and sell emissions allowances, and to purchase any allowances auctioned by the state, lie behind cap and trade’s potential to achieve emissions reductions at low cost to the overall economy. nationals and legal residents. Financing Investments and Other Public Expenditures.

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