TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Made in Vietnam with mostly domestic parts, Dat Bike’s selling point is its ability to compete with gas motorbikes in terms of pricing and performance. More than 80% of households in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam own two-wheeled vehicles, but the majority are fueled by gas.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

To use natural gas as a transportation fuel, it must be compressed so that it has the same energy density as gasoline or diesel liquid fuel. The award money was dedicated to addressing the obstacles and barriers associated with adopting natural gas as a transportation fuel. The following September in 2014 the company received a $3.6

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

A captive audience : Ingrid reports that P97 fills up its tank with $40 million to fuel its gas station mobile commerce services. CEOs only : Natasha M writes that Hampton is tech’s new membership community for chief executive officers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Lucid Motors opened its newest studio in Ontario, its 23rd in North America, and plans to begin Canadian deliveries of the Lucid Air in the spring.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

In 2022, Swing plans to deploy 100,000 e-scooters, e-bikes and e-mopeds that will have a swappable battery that’s interchangeable with each other and install 200 charging stations for its own usage and others as options. Last year, the Japanese government opened the door to legally start e-scooter sharing through proof of concept.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

A few years ago, I was driving in a rural area on the coast north of San Francisco and found myself low on gas. My cell phone couldn’t get a signal to direct me to the nearest gas station, so I put the engine in economy mode and drove on instinct. Image Credits: designer491 (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

With margins already being eaten into by a variety of things (including, now, skyrocketing gas costs), can they really afford to take on the expense of shifting to more sustainable propulsion? First, by removing the huge diesel engines and fuel and ballast tanks, you open up a ton of space on any given ship, sometimes doubling cargo capacity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The company has built an open source data streaming tool. Image Credits: Paul Souders (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Oil and gas production generates so much excess methane that it’s cheaper to set it on fire in a process called flaring than it is to capture it for sale. Just in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

JSight: An “open source API” standard meant to automatically keep your team’s API documentation up to date. Qummy: An automated oven meant for places like small cafes, bars and gas stations to help them sell meals when kitchen space might be next to nil. Image Credits: Qummy.

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OurCrowd

JULY 22, 2019

Tying it all together is the training and verification process which cars need to undergo before being allowed to drive on open roads. These and other connected features like telematics, WiFi hotspots, and car links are essentially transforming cars into computers on wheels that are open to many possible vectors of attack.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Not only is this a huge expense for retailers, but the disposal of the waste triggers an environmentally destructive rise in methane gas emissions. Lindt opens 3D virtual store created by ByondXR. Swiss chocolatier Lindt opened a 3D virtual store in the US created by our portfolio company ByondXR.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

The startup will rely on both the funds and InnoEnergy’s network in the European green tech space to build out its battery swapping station network across Germany and into two new European countries, according to Thomas Duscha, the startup’s CEO and co-founder. Duscha said the actual number is over 50 because many are exclusive.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 8, 2023

Don’t let the acolytes of Her Climate Royal Highness, Greta Thunberg, mislead you into thinking hydrocarbons such as oil, natural gas, and coal don’t matter. Critical refineries and/or oil and gas pipelines are taken offline due to deliberate sabotage. Oh, and by the way — guess what powers those charging stations?

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

Craig Cannon [02:32] – On a daily schedule basis, do you leave in blocks for solid, focused work, or do you just leave it open to like, “Okay, I can interact with everyone every 15 minutes,” that maker schedule, manager schedule? I’m just out of gas right now.” I could start a radio station today.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 13, 2020

Yesterday I was at a gas station that had a sign, "if you need gloves, ask". As America moves to increasingly "open for business", it's important to share with your customers what you're doing to protect them and keep them as safe as you can or make them feel safe. They provided gloves to customers who wanted them.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The National Retail Federation predicts holiday spending in 2021, excluding automobile dealers, gas stations and restaurants, will shatter previous records. Refer talent for job openings. Considerable momentum is shaping the 2021 holiday shopping season. Holiday sales are forecast to grow between 8.5%

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

You can open a checking account, control it from a mobile app, send and receive money from that account. Eligible purchases include convenience stores, gas stations, restaurants, food deliveries, etc. Upgrade is adding two important missing pieces of the puzzle with checking accounts and debit cards.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

The tanker is the first of what Orbit Fab is envisioning as a “gas station in space” – in-orbit propellant available to satellite customers who will no longer be limited in terms of their spacecraft’s active life by the amount of fuel they take up on launch. Demonstration missions like the one in June are just the beginning.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 28, 2022

It also plans to build a department that directly engages the sari-sari stores and provide additional services with partners, and build an open platform for financial institutions and brands to connect directly with store owners. “At At Fast, we constantly search for ways to improve our country’s supply chain.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In other words, it’s looking to build out a network of battery swapping stations that should help spread adoption of electric two-wheelers in the region. “Electricity is 10-to-1 cheaper than gas. Sarvary says that’s about 50% of what couriers typically spend on vehicle financing, gas, insurance and other expenses.

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Feedough

OCTOBER 20, 2020

In 1930, Sanders got a job to run a gas station in Corbin, Kentucky. His chicken was such a hit that he eventually removed the gas pumps and converted the gas station into a full-fledged restaurant. He expanded his business once again by opening another Sanders Court & Café in Ashville, North Carolina.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

Identified flying object : Darrell reports on Vast’s and SpaceX’s plan to put the first commercial space station into orbit in 2025. Whether Clearview will ever pay any of these fines remains an open question, since the U.S.-based Aria writes that Jed McCaleb’s private space station venture Vast might be more than just science fiction.

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