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Six mobility start-ups launching Volkswagen’s incubator program at Transparent Factory

Green Car Congress

Over the course of eight hours, 14 entrepreneurial companies from Romania, Spain and Germany presented themselves in 30‑minute sessions in front of eight judges. At the end of 2017 and start of 2018, more teams will move into the factory. Nearly 50 mobility start‑ups applied. One of their goals is to reduce fuel consumption.

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Tesla Model 3 Europe’s best-selling pure EV in February in its first full month on the market

Green Car Congress

JATO said that it was also notable that most of the Model 3’s volume in February came from private registrations, breaking the usual trend of a new vehicle’s volume being made up of business/fleet registrations. Denmark also recorded a strong result in February, with volume up by 8% due to an increase in its EV and PHEV registrations.

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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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Instead, they think, a clean-energy transition might be better served with a fleet of smaller, more modular, reactors—like Linglong One. NuScale has plans to build a US plant in Idaho by 2030; the company is involved in the UK , Poland , and Romania as well. Hence the name: small modular reactors (SMRs).

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