The US Southeast’s first NEVI EV charging station just broke ground

  • February 21, 2024
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Photo: ABB E-mobility The first DC fast charging station in the US Southeast built with federal funds from the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Program just broke ground. The Southeast’s first NEVI-funded and compliant charging station will be at Circle K in Richmond, Kentucky, along the Interstate 75 corridor. It will feature 180 kW ABB […]

Tesla’s union fight in Sweden may now affect Superchargers

  • February 21, 2024
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Tesla’s decision to not sign a collective agreement with its service workers in Sweden may now affect Superchargers as another union joins the fight. For the past four months, Tesla service workers in Sweden have been on strike in order to get included in a collective agreement. The automaker has always had a hard stance […]

Ford F-150 Lightning to gain Worksport SOLIS solar cover for off-grid energy use

  • February 21, 2024
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Ford’s electric F-150 Lightning is poised to get a new solar cover to harness off-grid energy. Worksport (WKSP) announced it’s adapting its SOLIS solar cover for the F-150 Lightning. Worksport adapting its solar cover for the Ford Lightning Ther F-150 Lightning was the best-selling electric pickup in the US last year, with over 24,000 models […]

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War and Illness Could Kill 85,000 Gazans in 6 Months

  • February 21, 2024
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An escalation of the war in Gaza could lead to the deaths of 85,000 Palestinians from injuries and disease over the next six months, in the worst of three situations that prominent epidemiologists have modeled in an effort to understand the potential future death toll of the conflict. These fatalities would be in addition to […]

This company wants to turn a Tennessee coal plant into a fusion reactor

  • February 21, 2024
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Type One energy has announced its intention to use a retired TVA coal plant site, the Bull Run Fossil Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as the site for a prototype fusion reactor with the hope to eventually commercialize fusion power – and maybe even find a neat way to use old EV batteries to help power […]

BLUETTI just launched a solar-powered portable fridge freezer that makes ice

  • February 21, 2024
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Photo: BLUETTI BLUETTI just launched the MultiCooler, its first portable fridge freezer powered by solar panels or hot-swappable batteries. If you’re going to go on a road trip and want to make cocktails while you stop to camp, then this is the thing you didn’t know you needed. The app-enabled portable MultiCooler, which weighs 53 […]

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Surgical robotics company Medical Microinstruments secures $110M and more digital health fundings

  • February 21, 2024
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Medical Microinstruments, a surgical robotics company, announced it secured $110 million in a Series C financing round led by Fidelity Management & Research Company, with participation from existing investors. The company offers its Symani Surgical System, a robotic technology for microsurgery and supermicrosurgery. The system allows surgeons to replicate the movement of a human hand […]