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Report: Toyota to make hybrid car parts in China to boost sales

Green Car Congress

The BBC reports that Toyota is planning to manufacture key components for its hybrid cars outside Japan for the first time. “Rare earths and concerns about their supplies could very well have played a role in this decision,” Vivek Vaidya of Frost & Sullivan told the BBC.

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The International Energy Agency (IEA) Wants To Ban Sales Of New Gas Boilers From 2025 Onwards — Smart Thinking!

CleanTechnica EVs

The International Energy Agency (IEA) said that no new fossil fuel boilers should be sold anymore starting in 2025 if the world really wants to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, the BBC has reported. The agency published a special report and noted that this is just one of 400 steps on the road to net-zero […].

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

Cars That Think

He saw this scheme chiefly as a way for companies to smooth out the volatility of sales and make their business more predictable. It has annualized sales revenue of about $500 billion a year. As a platform that matches buyers and sellers, Amazon has considerable market power and leverage. Facebook’s Libra proposal flopped.

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RCA’s Lucite Phantom Teleceiver Introduced the Idea of TV

Cars That Think

Although television technology had been in development for decades, and the BBC had been airing live programs since 1929 in the United Kingdom, competing technologies and licensing disputes kept the U.S. television market from taking off. RCA president David Sarnoff’s speech at the 1939 World’s Fair was broadcast live.

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

He himself was in the market for one. I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. One of the reasons for the upward swing in paid subscribers has been the buoyant share market. Steel prices have gone north in two years, am sure that the market value of the asset will be much more than the book value.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

How Real, How Soon, and What Must Happen Next,” which concludes the costs of creating an automotive market dominated by electric and hybrid cars are prohibitively high for the foreseeable future – as high as $49 billion for Europe alone (along with another $21 billion for battery-charging infrastructure). The group pointed to a B.C.G.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

“If any energy company ignores the long-term impact on future fossil-fuel-backed energy sales, they will be in for a shock.&# From renewable energy policy to carbon markets to dubious eco-advertising, our energy and environment reporters track the high-stakes pursuit of a greener globe. Email us directly at greeninc@nytimes.com.

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