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How Ideanomics and Energica are putting electric motorcycle technology into everything else

April 14, 2022
After electric vehicle company Ideanomics celebrated its successful acquiring of Italian electric motorcycle company Energica last month, the duo hosted an investor and analyst day at the Nasdaq this week. With Electrek in attendance, we heard first hand from the leaders of the two companies about how Energica’s industry-leading technology will now benefit Ideanomics other electric vehicle…
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Opibus rebrands as ROAM, representing its expansion of EV technologies throughout Africa

April 14, 2022
Kenyan technology company Opibus announced it has officially changed its name to ROAM. According to Opibus, the rebrand to ROAM is a better fit for the EV manufacturer’s growth and strategic shift to electrify Africa’s transportation sector and beyond. Under its original monicker founded in 2017, Opibus has been a Swedish-Kenyan technology company headquartered in Kenya that develops…
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Elon Musk says JB Straubel should have been Tesla’s only other cofounder, dredging up the past

April 14, 2022
Dredging up the past, Elon Musk said today that “starting Tesla” with the two original cofounders instead of just JB Straubel was the “worst decision” of his business career. The comment brings back to light Tesla’s controversial founding. During a live interview at TED 2022 today, Musk was asked by a fan which one thing he would change if he could go back in time. The CEO’s response…
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Photographer Turns Graffiti Cleanups Into Abstract Photos

April 14, 2022
Parking lots exhibiting Rothko and Diebenkorn paintings in Portland Oregon? That’s what I encountered during the Covid Pandemic of 2020. Like everyone, I had to change my usual routines in 2020. After the closure of gyms and other forms of exercise, my wife and I started taking long walks through various neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon. It was on these walks that I first noticed this…
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