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NIO planning on releasing affordable electric car for European market: report

Teslarati

NIO’s chairman, William Li, reportedly confirmed this strategy in an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel. This was due to China’s strong presence in vehicle supply chains and raw materials for key electric vehicle components. Its recent strategies in China even echo some of fellow EV maker Tesla’s hardline legal approach.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Green Car Congress

If cap-and-trade in the United States were to become reality along the lines of proposals now before Congress, up to 2 billion of the new credits would be drawn from carbon offsets, potentially increasing the worldwide supply of such credits by a factor of seven. THE APPROVAL PROCESS. The approval process for carbon offsets has two goals.

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

Cars That Think

As a retrocomputing nerd, when I saw early last year that the Galaksija was being reissued as a complete kit through Crowd Supply , I placed an order on general principles. Figuring it was plain sailing from there, I canceled my Crowd Supply kit order and set off on my own.

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