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Geely exports more than 100,000 vehicles in 2012; 164% year-on-year growth

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Geely’s current major overseas markets include Ukraine, Russia, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. In 2009, Geely bought the Australian transmission manufacturer Drivetrain Systems International (DSI) and then in 2010 Geely purchased Volvo Car Corporation from Ford.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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In 2007, Berg landed a contract to install rooftop solar at a local school, with the idea to set up a microgrid. City officials noticed a surge in such purchases in recent years, only to hear complaints from Utrechters that they then had to go through a long application process to have a charger installed where they could use it.

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Russia deems SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 safe to launch cosmonauts

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Ultimately, before SpaceX and Crew Dragon finally gave NASA an alternative, the space agency went from paying a minimum of $30M per seat in 2007 to a peak of $90M per seat in 2020. It’s quite likely that that price will drop even further in the likely event that NASA purchases additional Crew Dragon launches in the near future.

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Scientists create “buckydiamondoids”; union of buckyballs and diamondoids function as rectifier

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The research team, which also included scientists from Belgium, Germany and Ukraine, reported its results in Nature Communications. In 2007, a team led by researchers from SLAC and Stanford discovered that a single layer of diamondoids on a metal surface can efficiently emit a beam of electrons. —Hari Manoharan. Resources.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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The total cost of purchasing and driving one—the cost of ownership—has fallen nearly to parity with a typical gasoline-fueled car. Another barrier to the adoption of EVs is the price, which is largely a function of the cost of the batteries, which make the purchase price 25 to 70 percent higher than that of an equivalent conventional vehicle.