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Europe’s Most Financed Luxury Car Brand

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Latest research from Specialist Car Finance Experts, Forza Finance , has revealed that BMW is the most popular luxury car brand to finance in 16 of Europe’s 44 countries including the UK & Ireland based on finance rather than sales or units. Forza – Car Finance Map of Europe Infogram. Methodology.

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Fisker Ocean electric SUV starts at $37,499, pre-tax credit; leases for $379/mo

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Fisker is pricing its new Ocean electric SUV with an MSRP of US $37,499. Reservations are now open through the Fisker mobile app on the App Store and Google Play store, or the Fisker website and are set at US$250. Fisker will also offer a “$0 drive off” option through a fully financed $2,999 down payment for credit-approved customers.

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TAE Technologies exceeds fusion reactor performance goals by 250% as company closes $250M round; $1.2B to date

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In its recently closed Series G-2 financing round, TAE secured $250 million from investors in the energy, technology, and engineering sectors to support the company’s mission to deliver a long-term solution to rapidly growing electricity demand while providing global energy independence and security.

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ABB E-mobility scales up investment in software provider ChargeLab

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Co-ordinated through ABB EL Ventures, the investment forms part of ChargeLab’s $15-million Series A financing. Key capabilities of the ChargeLab platform include automated monitoring of EV chargers, pricing and access rules, EV driver payment processing, and electrical load balancing. EV charging in the next decade will be about scale.

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BP joins GE, Google Ventures, ConocoPhillips, and NRG Energy in biomass-to-gasoline startup CoolPlanet’s C Round

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a start-up company developing a technology that converts low-grade biomass into high-grade fuels, including gasoline, and carbon that can be sequestered ( earlier post ) announced that BP Technology Ventures has made an investment in the company’s C Round of financing. CoolPlanet BioFuels, Inc.,

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Firefly & Hyundai Motor America create pilot program to offer rideshare fleets & drivers new vehicles with bonus income up to $3,600/year

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Firefly, a fast-growing in-car and car-top mobility media company and a Google Ventures-backed startup, will collaborate with Hyundai in promoting its vehicles—including EVs—to rideshare fleets and drivers across key US cities. The program will be available everywhere Firefly is on the road.

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Tesla Had A Deal To Sell Itself To Google Til Musk Walked Away

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Like any startup company, Tesla Motors has had crises where the electric-car maker came very close to financial collapse. But a second crisis developed in late 2012 and early 2013, when sales of its Model S electric. Finance Elon Musk Tesla Motors Merger Google plug-in cars'

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