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Michelin doesn’t want you to buy as many EV tires

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And yet it acknowledges that EV drivers shouldn’t be buying as many tires as they are. Sustainable tires require better recycling beyond reuse for tires Around 90% of tires worldwide are recycled, while some markets within Africa still need to get onboard with the idea. It’s a technology challenge on multiple fronts. As the U.K.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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Buying and selling cryptocurrencies is a big business. The fraction that involved buying actual stuff (goods and services) is so small that it’s hard to measure. In de Bono’s vision, “large manufacturing corporations” should create their own currencies, which could be used to buy their products.

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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The British government, for example, announced recently that, in a few years, motorists will be able to get up to £5,000 in incentives to buy an electric car. Every big carmaker seems to be developing one, and governments are vying with each other to support them. People actually love the idea of a bicycle that does not need pedalling.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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More from Fortune No party for Citis owners: You and me Is it time to buy American Express? It was announced in late September, as the global financial markets teetered on the abyss. Wang entered the automobile business in 2003 by buying a Chinese state-owned car company that was all but defunct. "Too many new roads."

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Smart Grids, Electric Vehicles: A Financial Win-Win for All -- Seeking Alpha

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Seeking Alpha Home The Macro View Stocks & Sectors Global Markets ETFs Investing Ideas Breaking News Transcripts Register | Login Email: Password: Forgot Your Password? Instead they could buy back electricity at peak hours from vehicle drivers. Success with V2G would be a double win for electric utilities.

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The right way to get oil-rich West Asia to pressure electrical vehicles? Chinese language EV makers contemplate

Baua Electric

While it’s still relatively cheap to run a gas-guzzler in many places — petrol costs between $2.18 At October’s Geneva Global Motor Display, which this yr took playground in Doha, cubicles for Chinese language manufacturers like Chery and Lynk & Co. File photo: Branding on an Xpeng P7 electric vehicle (EV).

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Experts predict that by the year 2060 global warming, if left unchecked, could result in a temperature rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures before the Industrial Revolution when man started widespread use of coal and other fossil fuels. According to the IEA, global energy demand will grow 55% by 2030.