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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

Cars That Think

Amazon would announce that from now on, while users could continue to pay by credit card for purchases, they could also use a digital currency called amazons. (I Using amazons for purchases would give users a discount off the regular purchase price, maybe 2 percent. The first involves the Amazon platform.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

(Last year Oregon had also aggressively negotiated with the Chinese carmaker, BYD , to manufacture its line of plug-in hybrids in the state for sale in the U.S.) To convince me and the general public about purchasing an electric car, there are a lot of challenges to overcome.

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