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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

Cars That Think

Using amazons for purchases would give users a discount off the regular purchase price, maybe 2 percent. The smart approach would be to pay sellers some portion of their sale price in amazons—maybe 10 percent initially—and the rest in dollars. Customers could convert U.S. That would give folks an incentive to use amazons.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020. At current transportation battery prices, that is well beyond the cost of spinning reserve.

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