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$3.5B solar project breaks ground in Wilson, AR
2+ hour, 7+ min ago (440+ words) Construction is underway on the $3.5 billion Steel River Energy Center in Mississippi County. The three-phase solar project is expected to generate enough electricity to power more than 300,000 Arkansas homes by 2029, create up to 1,400 construction jobs and generate more than $300 million…...
Ben Shapiro Urges Elon Musk to Build an 8-Seat Tesla SUV or Minivan for Bigger Families: 'Doing Our Best to Repopulate the West"
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (441+ words) In a light-hearted Sunday post on X, Shapiro expressed his difficulty in fitting his growing family into the Tesla Model X and asked Musk to build a 7- or 8-seat minivan or SUV, saying the Model X and Tesla's new SUV…...
Electric car share aims to improve rural Manitoba transportation options
21+ min ago (119+ words) CBC Electric car share aims to improve rural Manitoba transportation options Red River Rides is offering a car share program featuring a fleet of electric vehicles in three southeastern communities, with the hope of improving transportation options for residents. - Rideshare…...
A 30-Year Auto-Service Veteran Drove an Ioniq 6 Over 3,000 Miles and Said Tesla Superchargers “Slowed Things Up a Bit”
4+ hour, 22+ min ago (1207+ words) The first road trip in his new EV worked well enough that R.J. Campbell chose the Hyundai over his wife’s gasoline vehicle. His charging stops also exposed the difference between gaining access to a network and getting the speed an 800-volt…...
California’s New EV Subsidy Program Is Ideal For Wealthiest Buyers
1+ hour, 6+ min ago (298+ words) Torque News Related to this story California's taxpayers have just served up a great new taxpayer-funded discount on some of the most expensive EVs sold in America. The great part of this for the country club set is that there…...
NIST Receives New Patent for Microbe-Killing Water Heater
8+ hour, 31+ min ago (305+ words) There were 2,063 press releases posted in the last 24 hours and 480,062 in the last 365 days. A side-by-side comparison of a typical water heater system and the new system invented at NIST. A heat exchanger allows the water tank to be safely…...
IBM’s Black Tuesday exposes a new economic fault line
21+ min ago (734+ words) The construction of the economy of the future has hit a bit of a snag. Case in point: IBM’s Black Tuesday. It was the single worst trading day in the 115-year-old company’s history, with its shares down a shocking 25 per…...
Elon Musk quietly buys a $1 billion gas turbine company to power Grok
33+ min ago (774+ words) Elon Musk has quietly bought APR Energy, a Jacksonville-based company that operates a fleet of mobile gas and diesel turbines totaling more than 1 GW of generation capacity. The self-styled champion of a “solar electric economy” now owns a fossil fuel…...
LG Chem Begins Cathode Material Shipments to Toyota
1+ hour, 54+ min ago (573+ words) thelec.net LG Chem has begun supplying battery cathode materials to Toyota Motor Corp., marking a key step in its strategy to reduce reliance on petrochemicals and expand its advanced materials business. According to industry sources on July 14, LG Chem…...
MGS6 review: A convincing electric SUV for less than $50,000
1+ hour, 15+ min ago (1198+ words) Wednesday, July 15, 2026 The MG badge has come to represent a few very different things over its long history. For some, it still evokes lightweight British sports cars. For many Australians today, however, MG is better known for affordable Chinese-built hatchbacks…...