Tag: says
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Toyota’s bZ4X electric SUV has a solar roof and a wing-shaped steering wheel
Toyota, a pioneer of hybrid vehicles, curiously hasn’t sold a fully electric car globally until now. At an event in Japan on Friday, the company revealed an electric SUV called the bZ4X. It was originally unveiled in April 2021 as a concept vehicle, but at the time Toyota shared few details about it. Now, the…
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Big money flows into long-duration energy storage
Could the Holy Grail of a zero emission grid finally be within reach? Long-duration energy storage – defined as a system that can store energy for more than 10 hours – is often called the Holy Grail of clean energy. It is the linchpin technology that will allow the economy to truly run off intermittent…
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6 ways to hedge currency risk in foreign equity
1,000% return in just 10 years. No, we are not talking about a penny stock or worse, not a Ponzi scheme. This is the kind of returns earned by those investors who invested in the stocks of American mega corporates like Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, and Amazon 10 years ago. That is right, if you had…
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Raamdeo Agrawal’s 10 commandments to mint money in stocks
If you are looking for a multibagger stock, here’s a simple tip from Dalal Street veteran Raamdeo Agrawal – hunt for stocks where the growth is high, but the valuation is low.“If the valuation is high and growth is also high, it is a speculative thing. When growth is high and the valuation is low,…
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RAISE 2020: Deep tech startup RoadMetrics crowdsources data to map road information at scale
2 decades back, Dipen Babariya and Mishal Jariwala have been on their way into a friend’s home in Surat. Google Maps suggested a different time-saving, shorter course. However, poor road conditions and inaccurate information meant it took the duo twice the time to attain their destination. This pain point led the youth friends to…
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[Startup Bharat] Chandigarh-based EVage is driving towards a greener future with its Made-in-India four-wheeler
For all anyone who have a true entrepreneurial spirit and mindset, they look to venture into an area that’s unexplored and filled with challenges. Similarly, Inderveer Singh ventured into the electric vehicle (EV) section when it was in its nascent stage in India. He started EVage, an electric vehicle startup, together with Pulkit Srivastava and Harnoor…
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A new art exhibition exploring the greed of private space travel is inspired by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos
Contemporary artist Lincoln Townley is famous for his distinctive portraits of Hollywood royalty. Townley has just launched his new collection, Universe, which will exhibit in London’s Saatchi Gallery in September. The galactic-themed collection is inspired by the age of private space travel, which Townley says is motivated by “greed, self-publicity, [and] a desire to do…
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A ‘Zero-Sum Game’: Is the World Defeating Itself in the Covid Olympics?
Michael Piontek believes his native Germany is putting too much money on one vaccine. The reason is Donald Trump. In June, Germany paid a whopping sum for a large stake in German drugmaker CureVac, which was developing a Covid-19 vaccine. Piontek was shocked. “Why CureVac?” he thought. The company’s vaccine is based on promising but…
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[YS Learn] Blowhorn: How they got venture capitalist Tim Draper to invest in the team
“Never set a video on your pitch. It doesn&; #x2019;t work, it gets trapped, and you simply have a small amount of time to grab the investor’s focus, a stuck movie is distracting,” guides Mithun Srivatsa, CEO and Co-founder, Blowhorn, the tech-enabled logistics marketplace. This was the very first lesson Mithun learnt while trying…
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ICYMI: Turtle Transfer, Parks Reopen & Giant Lizards in Georgia
Mexico seizes a dispatch of 15,000 freshwater turtles, some of these endangered species, even en route to China. The US Fish and Wildlife Service licenses endangered species status to Pacific fishers from the southern Sierra Nevada, but denies it from the bulk of the mustelid’s range, from Northern California to the Canadian border. The US death toll in the…