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France’s lowest hydro levels for 10 years add to nuclear woes

  Bloomberg France’s lowest water reservoir levels in a decade are helping to bolster power prices that are 50 percent above last year’s levels even as a reduction in nuclear supply is expected to ease. Hydropower generation is forecast to be the lowest for 10 years this month, according to consultants Pira Energy Group. It’s already 1.4 gigawatts below last ...

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Self-driving cars: Best thing to happen to motorcycles

  Bloomberg Self-driving technology promises to pretty much transform the auto industry as we know it. It may also change the business of selling motorcycles—but in a very different way. It all comes down to safety, according to Karl Viktor Schaller, head of development at BMW Motorrad. When robots are at the wheel, far fewer bikers will die on the ...

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Battery cost plunge to drive change in auto industry

  Bloomberg Plunging battery costs will drive the auto industry’s biggest change in more than a century, enabling a boom by 2030 in technologies from self-driving electric cars to ride-sharing applications. The price of lithium-ion battery packs for electric cars has fallen 65 percent since 2010 and is likely to keep declining, according to a report by Bloomberg New Energy ...

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