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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

Cars That Think

With its efforts on Libra, Facebook drew a compelling picture of the plight of those excluded from banking—not only in sub-Saharan Africa but also in South Central Los Angeles and the South Side of Chicago. To see how this works, let’s start with Filecoin , which raised $257 million in 2017 in its ICO.

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Grabbing the prime real estate for electric truck charging hubs

Charged EVs

Fast-forward to 2017. Washington state has an abundance of power very cheap from all the hydro. But where that scarcity issue is, is where all the fleets are: Chicago, New York City, primarily in the big cities where you’re going to get first-mover adoption. Smith Electric didn’t succeed. It’s fragmented.

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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.

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