He later found himself contemplating a career on Wall Street, taking something he didn’t want to do away from where he wanted to be: back in Vermont. “There is a brain drain,” he said, among engineers from his home country. “People go to college and come back when they’re 40 because they realize that San …
WOODSTOCK, Ala. — The auto industry’s transition to battery power is expected to result in job losses because making an electric vehicle requires fewer workers than making a gasoline-powered car. But that probably won’t be the case in Alabama. The state became the beneficiary this week of a factory that will produce battery packs for …
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WOBURN, Mass. – Anyway Far behind Asian producers While producing electric car batteries, US automakers and suppliers are racing to develop a new generation of batteries that are cheaper, can store more energy and charge faster. It is a global competition with huge economic consequences for automakers, small battery starters and car buyers to choose …
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New Orleans Saints fleeing star Alvin Kamara was arrested Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas for a grievous battery charge that caused grievous bodily harm, according to a statement from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. He was released from the Clark County Detention Center after posting a $5,000 bond later that day, and his next …
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LG Electronics will pay General Motors $1.9 billion to cover almost the entire cost of the recall of the fire-prone batteries in its Chevrolet Bolt electric car, which has become a major problem for the automaker, the companies said on Tuesday. GM has recalled all 141,000 Bolts it has produced since the car’s launch a …
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The federal government’s top auto safety regulator has refused to launch a formal investigation into the risk of fire in Tesla vehicles with fully charged batteries, after it failed to find any relevant incidents in the United States in the past two years. The regulator received a petition from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration …
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General Motors is recalling approximately 51,000 Chevrolet electric cars in the United States whose battery modules have been found to be at risk of catching fire. The recall covers Chevrolet Bolts It belongs to model years 2017 through 2019 and comes after an earlier recall to add software designed to prevent cars’ batteries from overheating. …
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