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• Tesla's Roadster May Have A Rocket-Powered "SpaceX Package"

  Published 12 June 2018 | viewed 2,141 times

  Elon Musk plans to equip a new version of the Tesla Roadster with “around 10 small rocket thrusters arranged seamlessly around car,” he said in…

• Microsoft Launches Second Deep Sea Data Center

  Published 08 June 2018 | viewed 1,945 times

  Microsoft said yesterday it had submerged a second experimental data center off the coast of Scotland, as part of its Natick project that studies less…

• New Tech Could Destroy Trillions In Fossil Fuel Investments

  Published 06 June 2018 | viewed 9,112 times

  We are living in a carbon bubble with trillions of dollars held in oil, gas, and coal assets that would be wiped out before long…

• EV Sales Are Set To Triple In Two Years

  Published 31 May 2018 | viewed 2,027 times

  Electric vehicle sales are finally starting to take off in larger numbers, surpassing 1 million in 2017 after growing 56 percent from a year before.…

• The Newest Innovation In Electric Vehicles

  Published 30 May 2018 | viewed 2,786 times

  Wireless charging is finally making its way to market as an energy source for electric vehicles, with BMW readying to start production in July for…

• Goldman Remains Optimistic Despite Falling Oil Prices

  Published 28 May 2018 | viewed 2,042 times

  Goldman Sachs continues to be bullish on oil despite the most recent market turbulence that saw prices plummet after reports that Saudi Arabia and Russia…

• Tesla's Cash Burn Puts Panasonic On Edge

  Published 11 May 2018 | viewed 1,719 times

  Panasonic is getting increasingly worried about its partner Tesla’s production-riddled, cash-burning ways, and may be less willing to make further commitments to the U.S. company…

• Volkswagen Looks To Take On Tesla In The EV Race

  Published 09 May 2018 | viewed 2,542 times

  Volkswagen AG’s new CEO, Herbert Diess, has taken on a corporate mission — to knock Tesla Inc. off its mantle as the global leader in…

• Elon Musk Slams Tesla Contractors

  Published 08 May 2018 | viewed 2,096 times

  The push to make Tesla’s production more efficient amid record losses and high cash-burn rate has led to Elon Musk telling employees that individual contractors…

• When Will Electric Cars Take Over The Roads?

  Published 04 May 2018 | viewed 2,785 times

  The age of the electric vehicle (EV) will be here sooner than you think. Out of 1 billion cars in the world, only 2 million…

• Cyberattacks Could Cripple The Energy Industry

  Published 02 May 2018 | viewed 2,435 times

  There are over a million oil and gas wells in the United States. There are also several hundred thousand miles of pipelines. Digitization is on…

• Why Goldman Loves Commodities

  Published 01 May 2018 | viewed 24,935 times

  Confirming that what Jeff Gundlach predicted last December, when the DoubleLine CEO said his favorite trade for 2018 is to be long commodities, has been spot…

• Venezuela Offers Discount Crude For Crypto

  Published 01 May 2018 | viewed 2,321 times

  Venezuela has offered India a 30-percent discount on crude oil purchases, but only if India agrees to pay in El Petro, the cryptocurrency that Venezuela…

• The Next Oil Price Cycle

  Published 27 April 2018 | viewed 13,633 times

  Profit season in the oil industry is in full swing, and the mood is upbeat: strict financial discipline is paying off, cash flows are improving…

• Japan Scrambles To Dodge Trump’s Trade War

  Published 26 April 2018 | viewed 3,110 times

  Japan is trying to avoid getting caught in the crosshairs of President Trump’s tariff maneuverings with countries that have large trade deficits with the U.S.…

• The War For "White Petroleum"

  Published 25 April 2018 | viewed 6,736 times

  It’s the modern gold rush. Around the world, the most sought-after mineral isn’t a precious metal, nor is it oil and gas…it’s lithium. Lithium, or…

• Cartel's, Pirates And Corruption Cost Mexico $1.6 Billion Per Year

  Published 19 April 2018 | viewed 3,913 times

  Mexican oil is hemorrhaging money thanks to gasoline-guzzling cartels, seafaring pirates, and widespread collusion within their own ranks. While this is nothing new for the…

• China’s New Car-Market Rules

  Published 18 April 2018 | viewed 5,413 times

  China is removing a limit on foreign ownership of carmaking joint ventures that has been in place since 1994, and that comes as welcome news…

• U.S. Critical Infrastructure Hit In Wave Of Cyber Attacks

  Published 11 April 2018 | viewed 4,700 times

  In the past few weeks at least seven natural gas pipeline operators were the victims of hackers that targeted third-party communications system Latitude Technologies, causing…

• Russia Joins China In Fight Against The Petrodollar

  Published 10 April 2018 | viewed 4,406 times

  Russia is considering replacing the U.S. dollar in crude oil payments on deals with Turkey and Iran, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said as quoted by…