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Senate finally confirms Adm. Franchetti as Navy’s top officer

November 2, 2023
The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Adm. Lisa Franchetti as the Navy’s 33rd chief of naval operations, ending a months-long delay caused by Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s ongoing blockade of military nominations that he began in protest of Defense Department abortion access policies. Franchetti became not only the first woman to serve as the Navy’s top officer, but the first to serve on the Joint…
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Polestar 4 ranks as brand's greenest car to date

November 2, 2023
Swedish EV maker Polestar just released its first Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for the brand’s SUV crossover Polestar 4, which the company says emits as little as 19.4 tonnes of CO2 equivalent. Made in China, the model ranks as having the smallest carbon footprint in the…
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EV laggard North Dakota just got its first Electrify America charging station

November 2, 2023
Electrify America just launched its first EV charging station in North Dakota – here’s why that’s kind of a big deal. There are a lot more oil pump jacks than EV charging stations in North Dakota. As of December 2022, North Dakota had only 600 registered EVs, putting the state at No. 50 in the US for EV registrations. (For context, 614,300 gas cars were registered there in the same…
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It's a table! It's a solar power plant! It's both!

November 2, 2023
You can generate clean power for your home with this “solar table power plant” and eat your lunch on it too. It’s a solar table power plant German startup Technaxx’s 400 W plug-and-play solar table seats up to eight people. It can also feed electricity into a 230V household grid and cover a home’s base load during the day. The preassembled microinverter allows for 400 W output, and…
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Volvo launches new business unit to promote bidirectional charging

November 2, 2023
EVs are not only emission-free ways of getting around town but also potential energy reservoirs sitting right in your garage, capable of powering up homes and appliances or giving back to the energy grid – at least, that is the dream for the bidirectional charging dreamers among us. And Volvo is looking to tap into that potential in a bigger way. Today, the automaker announced the launch of a…
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