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COP26 Daily Briefing: 3 big things that happened on November 8

The COP26, aka the United Nations Climate Change Conference UK 2021, is under way in Glasgow. Here’s Electrek‘s daily roundup of the key happenings at the world’s most important summit ever. Monday, November 8 Ministers from all over the world arrive in Glasgow Ministers are arriving in Glasgow today to start very tough negotiations about issues such as deadlines, how to hold each other…
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Elon Musk says he will sell $24 billion of Tesla (TSLA) stock if Twitter votes for it

Elon Musk says that he is prepared to sell about $24 billion worth of Tesla (TSLA) stock if his Twitter followers vote for it. He says that it is to address the accusation that he is not paying taxes. Lately, there has been a lot of talk about some of the richest people in the world not paying taxes. Many of the world’s richest people have most of their wealth tied to stocks. While their net…
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Quick Charge Podcast: November 6, 2021

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.  Check out the , an all EV event taking place at Sonoma Raceway this November…
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Tesla spotted building a bunch of cars in wild new colors

Tesla has been spotted producing a bunch of cars in wild new colors out of Gigafactory Shanghai. Could these be the new factory wraps that the company teased? For a premium automaker, Tesla has very limited color options. It used to offer much more paint color options, but in an attempt at streamlining production, Tesla has significantly cut down paint options to just a handful over the last few…
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Equinor pulls out of Ireland, and a $2.3B floating offshore wind farm

Norwegian wind giant Equinor is not only pulling out of what would be the Atlantic’s first floating offshore wind farm, it’s also pulling out of doing business in Ireland altogether. Equinor leaves Ireland In 2019, Equinor partnered with the Irish utility Electricity Supply Board (ESB). In April, they jointly announced they would build a €2 billion ($2.3 billion) 1.4-GW floating offshore…
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