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BMW Q2 recruit penetration grew greater than 40%

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BMW and its captive finance arm listened, after spoke back with systems to produce leasing extra compelling. Leasing is a good gross sales instrument for sellers to develop emblem commitment and store consumers inside the BMW ecosystem. “The No. 1 goal should be to retain our lease customers,” Sloane stated.

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Berkeley Lab researchers develop Bchain protocol to make blockchain more robust

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Several banks, corporations, governments and scientists have already implemented some form of blockchain to inexpensively, securely and expediently store and share information. A paper describing the basics of BChain was published in 2014 the Proceedings of the 18 th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems.

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Crypto, Venmo, NFTs, Tokens: Where Is Money Going?

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She’s spent years talking to finance industry experts about and researching the dynamic history of financial exchange media. So, the standard economic definition of money is something that is a means of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value. s 2020 Keep Big Tech out of Finance Act. One example is the U.S.’s

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UC Davis ITS study suggests hastening consumer adoption of plug-ins will require innovation on the sales side

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Presently, 19 different models of PEVs from 10 different manufacturers are available for purchase in California, but only three of these models are available nationally. Power 2013 Sales Satisfaction Index (SSI) study data on customer satisfaction with new car dealerships and Tesla stores. —Cahill et al.

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Ford Smart Mobility shifts from research to implementation; company announces new programs, next areas of focus

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In the opening keynote at Ford’s annual trends conference, 2015 Further With Ford, CEO Mark Fields announced the next phase of the company’s Smart Mobility plan, originally announced in January this year at CES ( earlier post ). Availability of zero-emission Focus Electric vehicles. One-way trips with guaranteed parking.

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Volkswagen’s Pablo Di Si: Generation to get ‘again to fundamentals’

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You simply did a line of broker conferences with the VW community. The alternative one is that regardless of the rates of interest and regardless of all you learn within the newspapers about recession and this and that, the North American marketplace grew 9 % — which in my store is phenomenal — however we grew 11.5 %.

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

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The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.

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