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SpaceX Starlink kit now available at select Home Depot stores

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SpaceX Starlink standard kits are now available at select Home Depot stores. The majority of consumers SpaceX bringing Starlink’s standard $599 kit would make the tech more accessible and, hopefully, significantly decrease delivery estimates. First, customers can have the Starlink kit sent to the Home Depot store.

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Universal Hydrogen announces $20.5M in Series A funding to build and test full-scale hardware for hydrogen commercial aircraft

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million Series A financing round led by prominent Silicon Valley venture fund, Playground Global, with the investor syndicate comprising Fortescue Future Industries, Coatue, Global Founders Capital, Plug Power, Airbus Ventures, JetBlue Technology Ventures, Toyota AI Ventures, Sojitz Corporation, and Future Shape.

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Universal Hydrogen secures additional $62M in financing to accelerate first test flight of hydrogen-powered regional aircraft to 2022

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The company anticipates entry into commercial service in 2025 with a certified retrofit conversion kit for existing ATR 72 and De Havilland Canada Dash-8 regional airliners and a green hydrogen fuel services offering. Full-scale prototype of Universal Hydrogen's gaseous hydrogen module, with one capsule removed.

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EV Floodgates Open In Ethiopia After Gov’t Exempts All EVs From VAT, Surtax, & Excise Tax

CleanTechnica EVs

Ethiopia’s Ministry of Finance exempted all electric vehicles from VAT, surtax, and excise tax! They went further to exempt completely knocked-down kits from customs duty tax. A year ago, the Ethiopian government introduced some incentives to catalyze the adoption of electric vehicles.

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PHEV conversion company Echo Automotive completes $3M financing, joins CALSTART

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a developer of technologies enabling the conversion of existing fleet vehicles into plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, completed a $3-million financing with United Fleet Financing, LLC, through a private placement offering and mezzanine financing. Echo Automotive, Inc., —Dan Kennedy, Echo’s CEO.

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€33.7M AgiloDrive2 project for electric motor production launches

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The phase two project was preceded by an 18-month collaborative project— AgiloDrive —with the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT), which was funded by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economics, Labor, and Tourism. Stator with hairpin winding from the pilot phase of the AgiloDrive research project at KIT.

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VW Adds Basecamp Accessories to Atlas Cross Sport

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Available individually or as a complete Basecamp kit (would you like fries with that, sir?) In addition to a body kit, this accessory line also offers up off-road(ish) wheels which actually look more than decent when paired with a beefy set of all-terrain tires. Images: Volkswagen] Become a& TTAC& insider.

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