February 2022

Postal Service fleet replacement deal shuns Biden EV plea

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service has finalized a contract to replace its mail-truck fleet with almost all gasoline-powered models, drawing an angry response from Biden administration officials who unsuccessfully pushed the agency to buy electric vehicles instead. The record of decision signed Wednesday represents the culmination of a failed lobbying effort by the Environmental

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Delivery Truck Flattens Custom Lamborghini Aventador And Bentley Like Pancakes

We’ve published many stories about people with powerful cars underestimating that power, overestimating their skills, and crashing their cars. Sometimes, though, the supercar’s owner truly isn’t at fault, as was the case in this accident in which the high-performance vehicles really weren’t doing much of anything. The accident scene, sadly, was the owner’s Beverly Hills

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New lawsuit says Tesla covered up employee safety violations, ignored racial harassment

SAN FRANCISCO — A former Tesla Inc. construction manager has filed a lawsuit against the EV company alleging he was fired for reporting widespread safety violations and race discrimination at Tesla’s factories. In the lawsuit filed with Alameda County Superior Court on Friday, Marc Cage, an African American, claimed to have reported safety violations that

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Biden to tout U.S. progress on critical minerals production for EVs, other products

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday plans to tout progress by government and private industry to boost American production of minerals used to make electric vehicles, cell phones, weaponry and a range of related electronics, the White House said. Washington has grown increasingly concerned that low U.S. production of minerals essential for the

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