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Coda Sedan Electric-Car Rolling Bodies For Sale On eBay

Green Car Reports

The 2012 Coda Sedan electric car had a long, troubled gestation and a brief life before joining other failed automotive startups in the history books. If you happen to want to buy a Chinese-assembled decade-old.'

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

Cars That Think

And she’s now condensed those insights into her new book Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform. IEEE Spectrum spoke with O’Dwyer about her book and what might be in the offing as transactions go digital and money ventures out beyond the nation state. So, you can’t buy hot deli meals, for example.

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Crypto’s Slow Motion Gold Rush

Cars That Think

When Chinese authorities cracked down on cryptocurrency mining in May, earnings soared for miners in other countries. But in May Chinese regulators banned the practice over concerns about mining's excessive energy consumption and perceived threats to financial stability. In a matter of weeks, all that mining capacity went offline.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

Cars That Think

And in 2005, the Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group purchased IBM's PC business. Lowe's plan for the PC called for buying existing components and software and bolting them together into a package aimed at the consumer market. In reality, customers were buying 200,000 PCs per month by the second year. Gerstner Jr.

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Mad Power thoughts

EV Info

It comes upon us when we have barely started ripping out our gas boilers to make way for the expensive and inefficient heat pumps the Government is telling us to buy, or building the costly new power stations that will be needed to charge the electric cars we will all soon require. So, it’s time to tear up the failed policies of today.

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Kia EV6 & Hyundai Ioniq 5 in India: Welcome to another PR stunt

Plug In India

They will begin taking bookings from May 26. “We will open bookings for the EV6 on May 26 and launch it soon after that.” One of our EV community member has paid Rs 1 lakh booking fee at the Mumbai dealer. But do consider this important point when booking one. People want to buy them.

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EV's and Indian Manufacturing: Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwaala | Visit to IIT Madras

Plug In India

After he joined the board of M & M a few years ago, he was persuaded to buy a Mahindra Electric car! Western / Chinese battery materials are optimised for performance in a temperature range of 15 to 30 C. To the extent that their Chinese supplier wants to use IIT Madras technology now. High C rates hurt batteries.