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Volkswagen delays ID.5 launch in Germany due to part shortage from Ukraine

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5 by a month as a part needed from a Ukrainian supplier has not arrived because of supply disruptions. The shortage of the part, which is a wire harness, kept Volkswagen from producing enough exhibition and demonstration vehicles for its sales partners, according to a letter seen by German media outlet Automobilwoche.

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Elon Musk explains why SpaceX is asking the Pentagon to pay for Starlink service in Ukraine

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Amidst reports that Elon Musk had asked the Pentagon to pay for Starlink service in Ukraine, the SpaceX CEO explained on Twitter that the private space company cannot really fund the beleaguered country’s satellite internet system “indefinitely.” This is unreasonable,” Musk wrote. Burn is approaching ~$20M/month.

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

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The war between Russia and Ukraine is making a lot of high-tech military systems look like so many gold-plated irrelevancies. This war is a war of drones, they are the super weapon here,” Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs, told Newsweek earlier this year. Ukraine denied the allegation.

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How the Wayback Machine Is Saving Digital Ukraine

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A couple of years ago, I decided to focus on a couple of dozen countries including Ukraine and Russia, archiving more than 300 news sites from Ukraine and 900 news sites from Russia every day. We also see subscribers of our Archive-It service turning their attention to the Ukraine. So we had a good start. What has changed now?

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Mercedes breaks ground on new battery recycling facility in Germany

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Mercedes has broken ground on a new battery recycling facility in Germany, focusing on “closing the loop” and allowing the automaker to source more battery materials sustainably. Tesla has already announced that it would make recycled materials a bigger part of its production with the help of Redwood materials.

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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

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He took the first step in Crimea in 2014 , and in the early morning hours of 24 February he ordered a large-scale invasion of Ukraine. The main component of Europe’s response to Russia’s Ukraine invasion is a pledge to cut fossil fuel use by 40 percent by 2030. But the room for rapid changes is limited. Regardless, the E.U.

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SpaceX now offers Starlink for RVs for remote travels

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Parts of the Midwest and the South are on the waitlist for the Starlink service. SpaceX brought the service to a few areas in South America, including Rio De Janeiro and its surrounding areas in Brazil and parts of Chile. SpaceX for RVs is available in France, Germany, Spain, and most of the United Kingdom in Europe.

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