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Tesla’s biggest investor: it’s a family business masquerading as a public company

Baua Electric

On the platform, he has been mostly supportive of Musk and Tesla, but like many other shareholders, he started to be more critical since Musk sold about $40 billion worth of Tesla shares to buy Twitter. Dear leader” is a reference to Kim Jong-il, the former supreme leader of North Korea. There wouldn’t be a Tesla without Musk.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. REFERENCES. Perspective by Brian J. Donovan, CEO of Renergie, Inc. INTRODUCTION.

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Calif. Energy Commission to award more than $44M for hydrogen refueling and alternative fuel vehicle projects

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The Energy Commission approved $18,690,000 in grants for projects that will expand the state’s fueling infrastructure for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Smart-grid enabled charging refers to a system in which computerized controls manage charging to ensure optimal electric power grid function. Waste Management of California, Inc.,

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In 1947 scientists at Bell Labs, which owed its existence to a government-granted monopoly, invented the transistor, the essential ingredient that in time led to the integrated circuit and the microprocessor. More Most Popular Most Read Most Commented Editors Picks Obama: How to get business going More Is it time to buy American Express?

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Until then, we can always program the ESS to make what Lotus refers to as "more futuristic sounds for electric vehicles [that] can be created using sampled sounds and generated waveforms." Exclusive rights are granted to Harman Becker to manufacture the latest technology solutions for the worldwide vehicle OEM market. because I am one.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

a small mainframe computer company that Taylor had tried to convince Xerox to buy as a way of starring up PARC. Larry Tesler , now manager of object-oriented systems at Apple, who had graduated from Stanford, was still hanging around the campus when the university was considering buying an IBM 360 timesharing system.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) References. To ignore this potential is wasteful and foolish. More information on e-mile comparisons is given by Reference Nº 2. Also see Appendix E and Reference 1.). Appendix D: Vehicle Driving Statistics.

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