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How might we keep the lights on, water flowing, and natural world vaguely intact? It starts with grabbing innovative ideas/examples to help kick down our limits and inspire a more sustainable world. We implement with rigorous science backed by hard data.
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Review: Polestar 2, a Tesla Model 3 rival with Volvo roots

Review: Polestar 2, a Tesla Model 3 rival with Volvo roots | Sustainability Science | Scoop.it
The Polestar 2 is the first car that could pose a real challenge to Tesla's dominance of the electric car market. And it's a joy to drive.
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Musk says Tesla will be self-funded, shunning Wall Street

Elon Musk trims his vision for Tesla – for now.
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The batteries in your favorite devices are literally covering Chinese villages in black soot

The batteries in your favorite devices are literally covering Chinese villages in black soot | Sustainability Science | Scoop.it

Tracing the origins of the graphite in a phone, for example, requires finding out where the ­phonemaker obtains batteries, where the battery makers acquire the portion of batteries known as anodes, and where the anode producers get their graphite. Moreover, because there are multiple suppliers at each step and various types of graphite, it is difficult to know where any given batch of the mineral ends up.
Several companies declined to disclose the origin of their graphite. For example, Tesla, perhaps the best-known electric-car maker, uses Panasonic batteries. Tesla said those batteries have never included graphite from the Chinese company BTR, but it declined to identify its graphite source.


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EcoVadis's curator insight, December 20, 2016 8:55 AM

Air pollution drifts across the ocean and raises ozone levels in the western part of the U.S. How safe are we all with regards to this issue?

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At Tesla, Elon Musk's jape blows up, leaving only a legal morass and questions about his fitness to be CEO

Elon Musk's brief, costly dalliance with taking Tesla private raises new questions about his fitness for management.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
There are true dangers when we hang all our hopes for salvation from any given crisis on one shot or a single person/savior.  In the case of the mainstreaming of electric cars, our hero who has grabbed the reigns to usher us into a post-fossil fueled transportation system is the iconic Elon Musk.

We have seen clearly one the past many months the downside with such an approach of "all our eggs in one basket."

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Inside the Tesla Factory: Burning cash, and trying not to burn out

Inside the Tesla Factory: Burning cash, and trying not to burn out | Sustainability Science | Scoop.it
The automaker is running through billions of dollars — and testing workers’ limits — as it races to build its futuristic electric cars.
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This place sounds like grad school...or the birthing of a new university.
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