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EV damaged? Discovering a technician to recovery it’s going to snatch a hour

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LONDON/DETROIT/MILAN – An international insufficiency of technicians and free restore stores certified to recovery EVs threatens to extend restore and guaranty prices for drivers, doubtlessly undermining later closing dates to trim automobile carbon emissions. “How are people going to afford the higher repair costs?”

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Ford announces Smart Mobility plan; 25 initial projects

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Data Driven Insurance, London. The outcome could be a more affordable and effective way to share or park vehicles using a remote “valet.”. City Driving On-Demand, London. A fleet of Ford Focus Electric vehicles and Ford Fiestas with EcoBoost powertrains is located across London. Painless Parking, London.

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evstores start deliveries of electric MyCar

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Deliveries of the electric MyCar have now started in London. After the launch at the British Motor Show in 2008, the car went on sale earlier this year exclusively from evstores in London. Now production has started and vehicles are being delivered to delighted customers in London.

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The Hyperloop Is Hyper Old

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But the main object is a massive, seamless metallic tube taking travelers from East London's Greenwich Hill to Bengal, courtesy of the Grand Vacuum Tube Company. A public demonstration of the railway takes place in London in 1914. Émile Bachelet Collection/Archives Center/National Museum of American History. A decade later we have.

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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In Poland and China, for example, an EV would need to be driven 78,700 miles to break-even. This is due to the 30 to 40 percent increase in emissions EVs create in comparison to manufacturing an ICE vehicle, mainly from its battery production. Even a few US cities it might be livable without a car.

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Separate MIT, IEA reports both outline major expansion in role of natural gas; caution on climate benefits

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Speaking at the launch of the IEA report in London, IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said that “ An expansion of gas use alone is no panacea for climate change. The US should support unconventional natural gas development outside US, particularly in Europe and China, as a means of diversifying the natural gas supply base.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Or is it alive but too expensive and if so, what is the more affordable replacement? China continues to defy easy classification. The US is in a race for global dominance in the new energy economy with China. The LIBOR is the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate and is an industry benchmark interest rate. Is tax equity dead?

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