Month: June 2021

This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including Tesla making moves to open Supercharger network to other electric cars, Tesla’s latest supercomputer, Ford Mustang Mach-E GT range, and more. The show is back live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel.
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It was early in the morning on 2 July 2020 when, after months of keeping a low profile following the death of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in prison, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested during an FBI raid on a secluded property in Bradford, New Hampshire. The story made headlines around the world. Charged with helping
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Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, speaks during the WSJDLive Global Technology Conference in Laguna Beach, California, on October 25, 2016 Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon‘s cloud-computing business has acquired Wickr, an encrypted messaging platform used by government agencies and enterprises, the company announced Friday. Terms of the deal weren’t
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The North American electric power system is undergoing significant change, with renewable resources now contributing more generation than ever before — a transformation that is poised to continue given decreasing technology costs and ambitious decarbonization goals at the federal, state, local, corporate, and consumer levels. With a series of reports released today by the National
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The UK has reported 15,810 new COVID cases and another 18 coronavirus-related deaths in the latest 24-hour period. The figures compare with16,703 infections and 21 deaths announced yesterday, and 10,476 cases and 11 deaths this time last week. Meanwhile, another 221,534 people had their first dose of a COVID vaccine yesterday, while 177,813 received their
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Billionaire Richard Branson’s spaceship company Virgin Galactic said on Friday it received approval from the US aviation safety regulator to fly people to space, turning up the pressure on rivals in the nascent and expensive space tourism sector. The approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) comes at a critical time for Branson as his space
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6:17 AM ET This week, a doubleheader at Pocono Raceway marks the 18th and 19th races of the 36-race NASCAR season: the end of the first half and start of the second. Despite being only halfway through the season, there has been no shortage of interesting, historic or just downright odd statistical storylines. Hendrick Motorsports
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