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smart luxury | Tesla surpasses Ford & GM in market value

Tesla has surpassed Ford and GM in market value.

Investors investors are betting that the world’s appetite for electric vehicles will continue to grow and that Tesla will grow with it.

Although the big automakers are financially healthy and produce the best-selling types of vehicles, like trucks and sport utility vehicles, they are perceived as lagging in cutting-edge technology like alternative power and autonomy.

See:

“Tesla Hits a New Milestone, Passing G.M. In Valuation” | The New York Times, 10 April 2017

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smart prosperity | capitalizing on urban resilience

Prosperity will ultimately belong to cities and nations around the world that find ways to capitalize on strategies of resilience against the inevitable impact of climate change.

Those cities will retool themselves for new technologies and global businesses whose employees, reflecting a growing worldwide generational shift, want to walk, ride bikes and take mass transit.

“The challenge …is taking the long view.’

See: “Changing Climate, Changing Cities; Rising Waters Threaten China’s Rising Cities” | Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times, 7 April 2017

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smart luxury | PassivDom, the first totally autonomous house

Word is out of PassivDom, a passive and elegantly luxurious house designed and built in the Ukraine by Max Gerbut, a PhD of Engineering Sciences (physics of the solid state) and his start-up PassivDom.

PassivDom is the first totally autonomous house in the world that doesn’t need any fuel combustion even in Arctic climate conditions.

“The module uses only ecologically clean solar energy for all inhabitants’ needs: climate control (heating and cooling), water generation, air quality and oxygen control. The house itself produces electricity for all household appliances.

PassivDom is “designed to self-sustain in all climatic conditions with their own, off-the-grid power sources and self-learning systems networked to the internet of things.“

John Biggs, the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch.com calls it “pretty darn rad.”

Biggs reports,

““PassivDom is the world’s first mobile and transportable house with Passive House parameters,” said Gerbut. “Due to the use of advanced materials and unique developments by our engineers, PassivDom has the highest thermal performance among residential buildings. The walls of PassivDom are as warm as brick. Thermal characteristics are high enough to use 20 times less energy than an ordinary building. That’s why it is possible to realize full off-grid autonomy in a cold climate without complex and expensive engineering heating system.”

“The first model, the modulOne, includes solar panels that power the climate control system, a clean water system that takes moisture from the air and an air quality control system that includes carbon dioxide control. The frame is made of 3D-printed carbon fiber and fiberglass, and the entire house is recyclable.

See:

“PassivDom” (a US telephone number is included)

“PassivDom is a Zombie-proof ‘autonomous 3D-printed mobile house’” | John Biggs, TechCrunch.com, 10 March 2017

“Ukraine startup 3D prints fully autonomous home” | Blouin News, 17 March 2017

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