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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

Cars That Think

During a House Financial Services Committee hearing in October 2019, Representative Maxine Waters D-Calif.) Waters said, “That’s not a commitment.” Part of the pitch for a private digital currency could be offering people in these communities access to cheap, secure financial services.

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Grabbing the prime real estate for electric truck charging hubs

Charged EVs

This is LADWP [Los Angeles Department of Water and Power] and this is LAWA, so you’d imagine that there’s some sort of priority. Washington state has an abundance of power very cheap from all the hydro. We’re going to have no problems getting the power we need.” There’s just not. It simply takes time to build more capacity.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation. Powered by Blogrunner Latest From Green Inc. Dimming the Lights to Meet Demand About Green Inc.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Furthermore, changing the battery pack on say a Toyota Prius often costs a fortune, at least in most European countries, so such cars better be VERY cheap, but they’re not. Batteries are highly special toxic waste and cannot be dropped on the average dump site, so who is going to pay to get rid of this problem?

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