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Barry Ritholtz

Manufacturers need to cut costs as electric-vehicle inventories pile up, but this is easier said than done. The Big Picture ) • Secret History of Alan Alda’s M*A*S*H Dog Tags : At auction, it was revealed they were from WWII vets: a Black man from the South and a Jew from Brooklyn.

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Canoo Aims To Reinvent Electric Vehicles And Subscriptions

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That group would certainly include Alex Marcinkowski , chief strategy officer at Canoo , the electric vehicle company that has made headlines with its recent $600 million fundraise. The company will also provide maintenance and repair, as another way of reducing electric vehicles’ high price tags.

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Bird Announces Acquisition Of Scoot

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Bird has announced its acquisition of electric vehicle company Scoot. Together, the companies will offer riders more vehicles equipped with the latest technology advancements for the sharing market, and provide services in more communities. “We

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Uber Ups Its Game With Scooters

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And according to another report from earlier this year, ridesharing firm Lyft — which made some financials public in advance of its anticipated initial public offering — “has laid off around 50 staff in its bike and scooter division, mainly people who had joined” the ridesharing firm when it bought Motivate , an electric bike-sharing provider.

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The Connected Devices We Never Knew We Needed

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Car technology was an expected part of CES in 2021, as vehicles are a big part of the big show every year — particularly for the last few years, as consumer interest in connected car technology has spiked alongside a growing enthusiasm for a possible future where cars can drive themselves and the humans just tag along for the ride.

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Mobile Smart Kitchens Reinvent Food Delivery

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It takes much land, water, pesticides, electricity and fossil fuel to grow, harvest, package, transport and prepare the food required to make even the simplest possible meals. For the food industry — that waste adds up to a $990 billion price tag, according to Alex Garden, chairman and CEO of Zume Inc.

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Barry Ritholtz

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. What Shift EV does is it takes existing delivery vans and retrofits them in a space of a couple of hours, from internal combustion engine to electric. Like, wouldn’t you rather live in a city that has mostly electric or all electric cars in it?

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