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Speculation in the Metaverse

Cars That Think

You might imagine this lot was in downtown San Francisco, New York, or London. Surveying all the nothingness now for sale in the metaverse, speculators imagine trillions of dollars in value will accrue if they buy in early enough. In fact, Decentraland is located nowhere.

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

Cars That Think

When Ifeanyi Orajaka was an undergraduate engineering student in 2008, he had his career all mapped out. In 2008 only about half of Nigeria’s 152 million citizens had electricity, according to a Macrotrends report. Smart Village provides grants for the initial investment to buy equipment, as well as mentoring and training.

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UK’s largest car club formed as City Car Club buys WhizzGo

Green Cars News

The purchase of WhizzGo marks the first major consolidation within the UK car club market and the new combined company now has operations in London, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield, York, Edinburgh, Brighton, Bristol, Bath, Huddersfield, Norwich, Birmingham, and Southampton with more in the pipeline.

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Peugeot E-Expert walk around and first drive

Drive Electric

For those that don’t know us, we have made it our mission since 2008 to help businesses and individuals make the successful transition to electric vehicles. Lease vs buy. Buying a vehicle like this outright can be very expensive even with the up to £8,000 pounds government grant applied.

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Driving Dystopia: Europe’s Low Emission Zones Aren't Going Over Well

The Truth About Cars

Originally framed as a way to improve air quality throughout London, ULEZ cameras have started to proliferate more suburban communities. Londoners very clearly did not. London Mayor Sadiq Khan has taken the brunt of the public’s ire, even though the ULEZ concept predates his tenure. per day to travel through prohibited areas.

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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

AFP Some 21m electric bicycles were sold in China in 2008, according to Frank Jamerson, author of Electric Bikes Worldwide Reports. Your correspondent borrowed the new A2B electric bicycle from Ultra Motors, a British firm, and took it for a spin in London. The figure has doubled since 2005.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

How the money would be distributed is yet to be decided but Hoon said it would be available only to people buying cars that ran entirely, or for the vast majority of their time, on electricity. Its that part that could incentivise consumers to buy an electric vehicle." Police delete London tourists photos to prevent terrorism 4.