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F1 Drama After Whistleblower Accuses FIA President of Shenanigans

The Truth About Cars

According to BBC Sport , Ben Sulayem was said to have intervened to overturn a time penalty issued to Fernando Alonso during the race. As the FIA's vice-president for sport for the Middle East and North Africa, he attended the event in an official capacity and anything he had to say on the matter would have been highly influential.

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To Hell With The Grownups. I’m Now With Greta & #FridaysForFuture

Creative Greenius

The first media notice Greta got was from the BBC in September of last year. Now Greta and her cohorts around the world have big plans for a global #ClimateStrike on March 15 and I have no doubt they will exceed expectations. By the end of October she was speaking at the Declaration of Rebellion, at Parliament Square, in London.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

ºF) above pre-industrial levels to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, and that global GHG emissions would have to peak around 2020 and then sharply decline by 50% to 85% by the year 2050. AR4 also affirmed that warming would have to be held to no more than 2 ºC to 2.4 ºF) increase. Earlier post.)

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Volvo joins Tesla in halting EV production due to Red Sea attacks

Baua Electric

Since October, the group has attacked several commercial vessels with drones and ballistic missiles and seized what they said was an Israeli cargo ship, reports the BBC. Global shipping companies, in one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, have had to redirect or halt shipping altogether.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

Cars That Think

dollars (or other currencies, as Amazon is a global business) on demand. 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. Netflix is AWS’s largest customer.

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. Global EV companies have also had fire incidents. Latin America, Africa, Australia and US have all got proven Lithium reserves. India needs to be in a global league of Nations, as far as Bhavesh is concerned. Since then he has stayed with the same battery.

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