Nissan Ariya EV shown with sporty design overhaul hints at Nismo going electric

  • September 20, 2023
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Could it be? The Nismo EV we’ve been waiting for? A sleek Nissan Ariya prototype was spotted at the Nurburgring recently, featuring several Nismo-like design features. Nissan introduced the Ariya in 2020, its first dedicated EV in over a decade following the LEAF. The electric crossover currently tops out at 389 horsepower and 442 lb-ft […]

A new 1 GW solar cell factory is launching in South Carolina

  • September 20, 2023
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Canadian solar cell and panel maker Silfab Solar is opening a flagship $150 million solar cell factory in South Carolina. The 785,000-square-foot factory’s annual production capacity will include 1 gigawatt (GW) of cell production capacity and 1.2 GW of additional panel production capacity. Silfab Solar’s York County factory is expected to create more than 800 jobs. […]

The world’s northernmost solar farm is about to come online

  • September 20, 2023
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Norway has installed the world’s northernmost solar farm and battery storage in the Svalbard archipelago, just south of the North Pole. State-owned energy company Store Norske Energi installed the solar and storage at Isfjord Radio on the island of Spitsbergen, the largest and the only permanently populated island in the archipelago, and the solar farm is […]

Rivian Dual-Motor Large Pack R1Ts hit the R1 Shop with road trip range

  • September 20, 2023
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As the American EV maker ramps up production to meet its goal of building 52,000 electric vehicles this year, it’s never been easier to own a Rivian EV. Rivian’s new R1T Dual-Motor Large Pack configurations are hitting the R1 shop with enough range to make it from Boston to Philly with some to spare. Rivian […]

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U.S. Will Resume Offering Free At-Home Covid Tests

  • September 20, 2023
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The Biden administration, looking ahead to a possible winter surge of Covid-19, announced on Wednesday that it was reviving its program of offering Americans free coronavirus tests through the mail and would spend $600 million to buy tests from a dozen domestic manufacturers. The website for the program, covidtests.gov, will begin accepting orders on Monday, […]

Tesla Cybertruck teased as ‘next-gen police vehicle’ by former TSLA board member

  • September 20, 2023
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Tesla Cybertruck is being teased as a “next-gen police vehicle” by former Tesla board member and Oracle founder, Larry Ellison. Until recently, Larry Ellison, a large Tesla shareholder, was on the automaker’s board of directors. The Oracle founder was giving a keynote address at the company’s CloudWorld 2023 conference yesterday and made some interesting comments […]

Biden just launched a Climate Corps that will create 20,000 jobs

  • September 20, 2023
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US President Joe Biden is taking executive action to launch the American Climate Corps, which will train 20,000 young people to work in the clean energy economy. The American Climate Corps makes a comeback The American Climate Corps was originally included in an early version of the Inflation Reduction Act, but it was dropped because […]

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Sufjan Stevens Says He Lost Ability to Walk From Guillain-Barré Syndrome

  • September 20, 2023
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Sufjan Stevens, the indie-rock singer-songwriter, said in a statement on his website on Wednesday that he was in recovery from a rare neurological condition called Guillain-Barré syndrome that had taken away his ability to walk, saying he had been hospitalized for several weeks but was expected to recover. “Last month I woke up one morning […]