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Starting this year, Moscow will only buy electric buses

Green Car Congress

The city of Moscow, Russia is halting the purchase of diesel buses for its passenger transport fleet. Starting this year, by the decision of the Mayor of Moscow, we will not buy diesel buses, except for transportation in a special mode. About 40% of all electric bus production operations take place at SVARZ. Only electric buses.

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Time To Buy? New Vehicle Inventories And Incentives Are Up

The Truth About Cars

After several years of swelling vehicle prices and tragically lean inventories, the market has reached a point where dealer lots are getting full and consumers are becoming disinclined to go into quite so much debt in order to purchase a new automobile. Everything is relative in the world of car buying.

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Tesla adds new method to Referral Program that doesn’t require a purchase

Teslarati

Tesla has introduced a new way to earn credits through its Referral Program that does not necessitate the referred person to buy a car. Every person that test drives a vehicle at a showroom and uses your referral code will qualify you for 100 credits. Tesla has added Demo Drives in the U.S.

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United to buy 15 supersonic aircraft from Boom; option for 35 more; optimized for 100% SAF

Green Car Congress

United Airlines announced a commercial agreement with Denver-based aerospace company Boom Supersonic to purchase 15 of Boom’s Overture supersonic airliners, once Overture meets United’s safety, operating and sustainability requirements, with an option for an additional 35 aircraft. Capable of flying at speeds of Mach 1.7—twice

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

Cars That Think

On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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Elon Musk cans Tesla-Costco partnership in Taiwan

Teslarati

General Motors , for example, has used Costco for several years to sell its vehicles to club members, giving them exclusive discounts and pricing options as consumers look to purchase a new car. It is not orthodox, but people are looking for a deal, and Costco is known for giving members access to special pricing on a variety of products.

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Toyota says it would rather buy credits than ‘waste’ money on EVs

Baua Electric

As the car industry’s largest hybrid pusher, Toyota says it is better positioned to just buy credits to close the EPA gap rather than “waste” money on BEVs, its CEO said. Regulation-wise, we would have to prepare something like credit purchase,” he told Automotive News. Wasted investment is worse than the credit purchase,” he added.

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