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Elon Musk is walking away from Twitter deal after selling $8 billion worth of Tesla (TSLA) stock for it

July 11, 2022
After months of negotiations, Elon Musk has officially moved to terminate his takeover of Twitter, but the CEO has still sold around $8 billion worth of Tesla (TSLA) stock to make it happen. What is he going to do with that money? After Tesla went public in 2010, Elon Musk often said that he would be the “last one to sell Tesla stocks.” The CEO periodically had to do it to cover his taxes…
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New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded

July 10, 2022
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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Tim Cook goes for a ride in Rivian electric pickup at Sun Valley ‘summer camp for billionaires’

July 9, 2022
As reported earlier this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook is attending the Sun Valley Conference this week in Idaho, often referred to as a “summer camp for billionaires.” While we rarely learn much about what goes on at Sun Valley each year, a fun Friday story this year is that Tim Cook has been spending some time checking out the Rivian electric truck and SUV. As first noted by Bloomberg, Rivian…
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This big, sand-filled energy storage silo can be powered by wind and solar

July 9, 2022
Finnish startup Polar Night Energy and local Finnish utility Vatajankoski have together built the world’s first commercial sand-based, high-temperature heat storage system that can be powered by solar and wind. Sand-filled energy storage in Finland Polar Night Energy’s heat storage system is a 23-foot-tall steel container filled with 100 tons of sand. (Polar Night Energy uses the lowest…
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