Community choice aggregators (CCAs) representing three San Francisco Bay Area counties have launched a 30-megawatt behind-the-meter battery solicitation, aimed at protecting vulnerable customers and communities from the massive fire-prevention power outages o…
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Month: November 2019
Ford reveals all-electric 900hp ‘Mustang Lithium’ at SEMA
Yesterday we were treated to a spy shot of some sort of plug-in Mustang under wraps at SEMA. At the time, we could tell it was at least a plug-in, but thought it must have been a plug-in hybrid. It looks like we were wrong, as today that car has been reveale…
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Chinese Automaker Nio Looks to Intel or Self-Driving Cars Push
Chipmaker Intel Inc. (NASDAQ: INTC) and Chinese automaker Nio Inc. (NYSE: NIO) have announced an agreement to join in a strategic collaboration to develop highly automated and autonomous vehicles (AV) for consumer markets in China and other major markets. Un…
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A woman was impaled by a metal pole while riding in the passenger seat of a car, but somehow miraculously survived
A California woman experienced every driver’s worst nightmare this week and somehow lived to tell the tale. In a scene seemingly straight out of a “Final Destination” film, a piece of metal several feet long fell off the back of a big rig truck, broke through…
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Your Digital Self: Tesla’s competitors find that going electric has its own set of problems
Not all is good in EV Land. Nio, a Chinese electric-car manufacturer vying to become the next Tesla TSLA, -0.51%, has fallen on hard times. A perfect storm of reduced government subsidies, uncertainty brought on by the trade war with the U.S., as well as…
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