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Funding Tesla ticks off automakers’ need for electric car credits

Bloomberg Tesla Inc. has generated nearly $1 billion in revenue the last five years from an unlikely source: Rival automakers. Needless to say, the other companies aren’t happy. California requires that automakers sell electric and other non-polluting vehicles in proportion to their market share. If the manufacturers don’t sell enough of them, they have to purchase credits from competitors to ...

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Storm watches issued for North Carolina as Maria churns north

Hurricanes irma and maria aftermath

Bloomberg Storm watches have been issued for North Carolina as the US is threatened by a hurricane for the fourth time in a month. Tropical storm watches, meaning winds of at least 63 kilometres per hour could reach the coast of North Carolina as early as Tuesday, have been posted from Surf City to the Virginia border, the US National ...

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America’s engine is being slowed by complacency

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It was an epoch-defining decision to place in Westminster Abbey, among statues of monarchs, priests and poets, a large one of James Watt, inventor of the separate-condenser steam engine. The statue’s inscription says Watt ranks among the world’s benefactors because he “increased the power of man.” The economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey believes this honor, conferred in 1834, signified society’s ...

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