EV sales in Europe are booming — how long can it last?

EV sales in Europe are booming — how long can it last? EV-focused incentives markedly increased in Europe Incentives are impactful but they will not last. In France, private buyers of vehicles emitting less than 20 gr CO2/km and retailing for less than 45,000€ (~US$53k incl. tax) benefit from a6,000€ incentive— it was 5,000€ before June 1. The bonus drops to 3,000€ in the 45,000-60,000€ price bracket. If this new clean vehicle replaces a vehicle first registered before 1997, then the 6,000€becomes 11,000€!...

6 min · 1068 words · Kelly Turner

Evan Weaver, the man who helped save Twitter from its Fail Whale, has resigned.

Remember when theFail Whalewas so common place that “Fail Whale” would find a home on Twitter’s trending topics? At one point it really was that bad folks; and there were endless repetitive questions about whether Twitter would manage to resolve its uptime issues and, more importantly, whether it would be too late by the time it did. Fortunately we now know the answer to the first question is ‘yes’ and the second ‘no’....

3 min · 476 words · Christine Wheeler

Even if you’ve never picked up a guitar before, this training collection can launch your guitar hero dreams

TLDR:The Complete 2021 Beginner to Expert Guitar Lessons Bundle is an all-access pass to a full guitar education, including 14 courses and nearly 80 hours of intensive instruction. Don’t ever tell a musician there’s something they can’t do. Back in 2011, the infamous track Soulless 6 was created for the game Guitar Hero, a track so freakin’ impossible to play that even its creator considered the chance that anyone would ever land a 100 percent score a joke....

3 min · 475 words · Mr. Tyler Baird

Even toy car maker Matchbox is jumping on the EV trend

For a lot of car nerds, the passion beganbefore they could even drive, with toy cars like the diecast scalemodels made by Matchbox. Matchbox might be single-handedly responsible for getting more kids into cars than anyone, or anything, else. That company is the reason I smile every time I see an E31 era BMW 8 Series. Now, in keeping with the times, Matchbox is releasing a bunch of new models of electric vehicles, including the Tesla Roadster, Nissan Leaf, BMW i3, i8, and an e-Star delivery van....

2 min · 360 words · Stacey Parks

Even your ‘good’ decisions might be bad — so learn to rectify them

Boris is the wise ol’ founder of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur in tech — from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can get his musings straight to your inbox bysigning up for his newsletter! When you’re launching a new company, product, or service, there’s an incredible amount of little decisions to make. Of course, you’d like every single decision to be the perfect one, but that never happens....

3 min · 616 words · Margaret Hoffman
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