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Mar 20 2024
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Maine Pulls the Plug on California-Inspired Electric Car Mandates
‘If market conditions and infrastructure were in a place, Maine consumers would make this choice on their own without government coercion.’ Maine, a vastly rural state that mingles a traditional Yankee life of hunting, logging, lobstering, and living off the grid with an annual influx of 15 million tourists—most who arrive by car—will not be joining 12 other states in phasing out gas-powered
The Epoch TimesMar 24 2024
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Louisiana reintroduces the electric chair, adds nitrogen hypoxia to execution methods
Earlier this month, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed into law the state's plans to execute inmates using electrocution and nitrogen hypoxia. Lethal injection is still available, but sourcing the chemicals used is difficult. Amid a variety of other factors, the production of chemicals used to kill human beings is illegal in the countries that the US sources from. Nitrogen hypoxia is not a
Boing BoingMar 15 2024
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Record cold prompts record demand for electricity in the Flathead
While this winter wasn’t one of the coldest on record, it did have a few cold snaps. January saw an extreme cold snap across western Montana, and hit the Flathead Valley hard. In Kalispell, the frigid temperatures strained power grids and left many people shivering in the cold until electricity could be returned to their homes. New power company data shows 9,552 customers in the Flathead
NBC MontanaMar 19 2024
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Pictures: Electrify Expo features electric cars, bikes, scooters
• None Rivian EV Adventure Vehicles stood out with the bike, kayak, surfboard, and tent racks on top of the electric American-made SUVs during the Electrify Expo at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., Saturday, March 16, 2024. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel) • None Tesla’s Cybertruck was a highlight for many of the EV enthusiasts. There was an everpresent line around
Orlando SentinelMar 22 2024
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Stellantis To Lay Off Hundreds Of Employees As It Struggles To Transition To Electric Vehicles
Stellantis announced Friday that it will soon lay off around 400 employees amid its challenging transition to producing electric vehicles (EVs).
The layoffs for one of America’s biggest automakers become effective on March 31 and are white-collar jobs largely at the company’s headquarters and a chemical center in Auburn Hills, Michigan, covering engineering, technology and software
The Daily CallerMar 25 2024
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Oklahoma County jail's new electric gloves spark controversy, fears of misuse
Some city leaders and even lawyers say they're concerned about new technology at the Oklahoma County jail. On Friday, we told you about the electric gloves the jail plans to use. Attorney Robert Gifford says what the jail is doing will only cause lawsuits for misuse and abuse. Despite Compliant Technologies and the Oklahoma County jail calling the electric gloves they plan to use a
FOX 25 KOKHMar 25 2024
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N.J. could hit electric car owners with new fees starting this summer
When an impending price hike is on the way, savvy consumers fight back by stocking up or buying a product ahead of the increase. Will the same purchasing philosophy apply to electric vehicles, now that the legislature approved a bill on March 18 to charge a fee for electric vehicles to cover road wear and maintenance as part of reauthorizing the state Transportation Trust Fund? The legislation
nj.comMar 25 2024
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Joby Aviation to deliver three more electric aircraft to US Air Force
MARINA – Last year Joby Aviation delivered the first electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to the U.S. Air Force, and last week the company announced it would deliver two more aircraft that are now part of Joby’s AFWERX Agility Prime contract with the Air Force. In September 2023, about six months ahead of schedule, Joby Aviation delivered the first aircraft of its Pilot Production
San Jose Mercury NewsMar 20 2024
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Maine board rejects mandate to boost electric vehicle sales by 2032
AUGUSTA — The state Board of Environmental Protection has rejected a mandate to dramatically step up sales of electric and hybrid vehicles in Maine. The vote by the seven-member board on Wednesday comes on the same day the Biden administration released the nation’s strongest-ever limits on tailpipe pollution, a move also meant to boost electric vehicle sales. Maine car dealers and Republicans
Portland Press Herald