A VW employee is suspected of wanting to join the militant jihad. The company announced the employment relationship. A labor court now ruled that “extra-ordinary circumstances” do not justify a termination. VW plant in Emden (icon image) Monday, 12.03.2018 20:46 clock May a company denounce a suspected employee Salafist to be? The Landesarbeitsgericht Hannover has… Continue reading VW may not dismiss suspected Islamists
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Small savers against VW – a process marathon
337,000 Germans once saved on a “KdF car” and never got the dreamed car, after the war their money was gone. When they sued Volkswagen, the group resisted with all the harassment. Getty Images / Culture Club Tuesday, 01.05.2018 09:56 clock Due to the diesel gate scandal Volkswagen AG is currently threatened with damages claims… Continue reading Small savers against VW – a process marathon
The seemingly impossible car
Arjo van der Ham — Co-Founder
Technology today is evolving faster than ever. When you stop and think about it, the possibilities seem endless. Every day, a lot of great (or to be honest, most of the time not-so-great) ideas pop into my, our, or your head. Although the seemingly impossible ideas are hard to achieve, it does not have to imply that they are bad ideas. That’s why at Lightyear we like to do some quick back-of-the-envelope calculations to check the feasibility of some of those ideas.
Before we founded Lightyear, we used to meet every Thursday evening to do just that. After concluding that we wanted to start a business to make this world a better place by combating climate change, we started looking for the best solution. The first step we took was to investigate the underlying causes of human induced climate change, and we quickly found the following graph:
Total greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands, 2014, World Resources Institute.
We were s..