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Kevin Feige Teases Credits Scenes Building to 2025’s ‘Avengers’ Bonanza

Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney Releasing Infinity War and Endgame a year apart yielded almost $5 billion at the box office for Marvel Studios, but the cinematic universe’s biggest theatrical event so far is poised to be dwarfed by the epic conclusion to the Multiverse Saga. Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will reassemble twice in the space of six months, with 2025 bringing Avengers: The Kang Dynasty on May 2, with Avengers: Secret Wars landing on November 7. Two massive-scale multiversal spectaculars…

Adam Neumann's Flowcarbon and some other startups offering cryptocurrencies backed by carbon-offset credits have slowed product…

Wall Street Journal: Adam Neumann's Flowcarbon and some other startups offering cryptocurrencies backed by carbon-offset credits have slowed product rollouts amid the crypto crash — Investors rushed to startups offering cryptocurrencies backed by carbon-offset credits, then the markets tanked Wall Street Journal: Adam Neumann's Flowcarbon and some other startups offering cryptocurrencies backed by carbon-offset credits have slowed product rollouts amid the crypto crash — …

Battlegrounds Mobile India Diwali Offers Bring In-Game Credits, Lucky Spins, More

Battlegrounds Mobile India developer Krafton has announced new Diwali offers that bring in-game credit — UC — and other rewards for players. Players will get additional UC while purchasing in-game credit. They will also get additional benefits in the form of lucky spins, which will give them new outfits, helmets, emotes, and more. The UCs can also be used to directly purchase these aforementioned items from the in-game store. These in-game offers for the free-to-play battle royale game are a part of Battlegrounds Mobile…

Thor: Love and Thunder’s after credits scene shows the fate of Jane Foster

In 2018, Marvel Comics published “Death of the Mighty Thor,” a seven-issue arc that brought an end to Jane Foster’s tenure as the Goddess of Thunder — though not, happily, to her life. No, Jane stuck around, and that was a good thing because Thor needed all the allies he could get for what happened next: a cosmos-spanning conflict known as the War of the Realms, during which Jane was one of four Thors it took to put down Malekith the Accursed and his troll, elf, angel, and fire elemental armies. What could this mean…

Electric vehicle buyers want rebates, not tax credits

New research from the George Washington University finds that not all financial incentives are created equal in the eyes of prospective electric car buyers, and the current federal incentive—a tax credit—is, in fact, valued the least by car buyers. Credit: GW Financial incentives play an important role in the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. New research from the George Washington University, however, finds that not…

Toyota joins Tesla and GM in losing federal electric vehicle tax credits

A Toyota bZ4X on display at the New York Auto Show, April 13, 2022.Scott Mlyn | CNBCToyota Motor said it sold its 200,000th plug-in electric vehicle during the second quarter, triggering a phase out of U.S. tax credits of up to $7,500 for people who buy the cars.The Japanese automaker joins Tesla and General Motors in initiating a phase-out of the credit for future consumers who purchase an all-electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. The milestone comes at an inopportune time, with Toyota ramping up production of its…

Toyota runs out of federal EV tax credits, pushing prices higher

is the latest automaker to run out of US federal tax credits and it will and GM in losing access to the $7,500 subsidy. The company surpassed the qualifying sales threshold for EVs and hybrids in June, as reports. The government limited each carmaker to 200,000 EV tax credits, though Toyota and other companies . Toyota says losing the credit will mean its EVs are more expensive for consumers, which will slow the transition away from combustion-engine cars to EVs. However, Toyota and have pushed back on a Biden…

Pina Earth gets seed backing to grow sustainable forestry carbon credits – TechCrunch

YC-backed climate tech startup, Pina Earth, has closed a $2.5 million seed round of funding a year after being founded and a few months since it presented at the accelerator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day in March. The seed is led by Franco-German VC XAnge, with participation from London-based VC firm Nordstar, as well as a number of business angels and serial founders, including Gustaf Alstromer (partner at Y Combinator), Sundeep Ahuja (partner at Climate Capital), Lea-Sophie Cramer (founder at Amorelie) and Anselm…

Toyota just started its BEV program, but it wasted all its tax credits on hybrids

Toyota has sold its 200,000th plug-in car in the US, meaning its access to the $7,500 federal tax credit will sunset over the course of the next 15 months. The company joins Tesla and GM in no longer qualifying for credits, with Ford and Nissan also expected to hit the limit later this year. The credits are designed to sunset gradually, so those with a current Toyota order will still get the full credit as long as they take delivery before the end of this quarter. Since Toyota sold its 200,000th plug-in car last…

Electric automakers make last-ditch plea for more tax credits before U.S. election

Shifting political winds during the US November mid-term elections could spell trouble for automakers' hopes of getting billions of dollars in consumer tax credits that would help the United States compete with Chinese and European rivals. General Motors Co, Ford Motor Co, Chrysler-parent Stellantis NV and Toyota Motor Corp have pledged to invest more than $170 billion through 2030 to bolster EV development, production and sales. Automakers are making a furious last-ditch effort to convince Congress to approve an…