Category: Automobile / Transport
A few days after announcing its massive electric vehicle charging infrastructure expansion, European electric utility E.ON elaborated on its actual plan to rollout charging stations across Europe – including an ‘electric highway’ of ‘ultra-fast charging stations’ that will connect Norway to Italy. Aside from the announcement that they will have as many as 10,000 charge points by 2020 […]
Source: Elctrek
Category: Energy
Can Norway dump $35 billion in oil and gas investments, and simultaneously convince that same industry to throw money into the country’s own fossil-fuel future? After the initial shock of learning that Norway’s $1 trillion wealth fund wants nothing to do with it, the petroleum industry says both are in fact possible. But the mood is shifting. […]
Source: Bloomberg
Category: Government
President Donald Trump ripped into one of his favorite targets Thursday in Beijing: The United States’ “shockingly” large trade deficit with China. “I blame past administrations,” Trump declared, “for allowing this out-of-control deficit to take place and grow.” America’s lopsided trade relationship with China and with the rest of the world is a familiar theme for Trump […]
Source: ABC News
Category: Government
The Trump administration’s decision to block new appointments to the World Trade Organization’s appellate body is compromising the ability of the system to resolve disputes, according to WTO Director-General Roberto Azevedo. Speaking in Vietnam on the sidelines of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum meetings, Azevedo called for a quick resolution to the dispute, saying it was already impacting the […]
Source: Bloomberg
Category: Airline / Travel
A foreign airline you have likely never heard of was just awarded the highest honor bestowed by an aviation industry website you probably didn’t know existed ― and it’s an honest-to-goodness big deal for the tens of millions of Americans who fly to Europe each year and, potentially, for the even larger number who in […]
Source: Forbes