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Members of the UAW (United Auto Workers) in New York are encouraging state lawmakers to oppose a proposal that would allow manufacturers to sell electric vehicles directly to consumers, citing fears that it would undermine a traditional business model which benefits manufacturers, dealers, and their employees. It’s also an illustration of how the state-mandated move to cleaner
Univar Solutions Inc., which is a worldwide chemical and ingredient distributor as well as a provider of value-added services, announced that it will partner with Motive Energy to install 1020kW of solar capacity and an ESS with an overall energy capacity of 375kW/753kWh at its own City of Commerce, CA facility. Univar Solutions is expanding its on-site
Astra announced on May 10 that, as part of its worldwide expansion plans, it planned to deploy satellites from a spaceport facility situated in the Shetland Islands commencing the year 2023. Astra has formed a collaboration with SaxaVord Spaceport facility based on the island of Unst in the Shetland Islands to give deployment services from
During the conflict in Ukraine, Elon Musk claims that Russian hackers are stepping up their efforts to bring down SpaceX’s Starlink broadband service. “Starlink has so far defied Russian hacking and cyberwar jamming attempts,” Musk tweeted on May 10. The US had previously blamed Russia for a cyberattack on Viasat’s KA-SAT satellite internet network in
The Lucid Group is the newest automaker to raise its electric vehicle prices. Starting June 1, the business said alongside its own first-quarter earnings report that it would raise pricing on the variants of its luxury Air car. The price changes increase the basic cost of the Air sedan by up to 13%. The business stated
The addition of microwave sounders to Tomorrow.io’s network will not delay the company’s plans to begin collecting weather data via satellite. The Boston-based business hopes to have a network in orbit by the end of 2024, collecting radar and microwave measurements. Tomorrow.io revealed plans to incorporate microwave sensors into its own radar satellite fleet in March because
For the foreseeable future, the offshore wind might meet all of the Carolinas’ energy needs. According to a survey by Environment America, South and North Carolina have so much capability to capture wind off the coast that they could completely abandon all other forms of energy if everything were converted to run on electricity. Both states
When Russian forces invaded Ukraine on February 24, Germany was confronted with an uncomfortable reality: Russia is Germany’s primary energy source, supplying more than half of the country’s natural gas and coal, as well as a third of its crude oil. Germany gives Russia almost $200 million every day in exchange, money that is currently
As the government pushes for the use of electric vehicles, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport has urged US automakers to open showrooms in Cambodia. Minister Sun Chanthol made the statements yesterday at the ceremonial opening of a Caltex station in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor neighborhood, which also featured the country’s second electric vehicle charging
Astroscale announced on May 4 that it accomplished another close approach rendezvous between its dual ELSA-d spacecraft last month, although that persisting thruster issues are delaying a capture demonstration that was originally scheduled for January. In January, four of Astroscale’s eight 1-newton thrusters failed aboard the ELSA-d servicer spacecraft, which is a 175-kilogram satellite meant to
