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Google Store Chelsea: April events include making ‘Pixel Planters’ for Earth Day and photo walks

April 16, 2022
Made by Google opened its first permanent retail store last June. Since then, Google Store Chelsea has hosted a number of events and April will see a handful of sessions, including one about making Pixel Planters for Earth Day. Past events let people watch the Pixel 6 livestream in person, while there was even a “Halloween Celebration” involving spooky stories and tasty treats. Events…
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China implements another round of lockdowns, impacting major iPhone plant

April 16, 2022
As the number of cases of COVID has been increasing in China, the local government is once again enforcing lockdowns in the country. This time, a new lockdown in the city of Zhengzhou puts the operations of the main iPhone plant at risk. As reported by Bloomberg, Chinese authorities announced on Friday that areas in the Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone have been immediately quarantined. As a…
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Tesla now aims to reopen Giga Shanghai on April 18 after a 3-week shutdown

April 15, 2022
Tesla is now aiming to reopen Gigafactory Shanghai on Monday, April 18 after roughly three weeks of being shut down and missing out on the production of over 40,000 electric vehicles. Shanghai has seen a notable rise in COVID-19 infections over the last month, and in an attempt to curb the growth, the authorities implemented some drastic lockdown measures that have been in place for weeks…
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Germany’s economic ministry wants to lower EV subsidies and completely halt PHEV aid by the end of 2022

April 15, 2022
Reports out of Germany state that the country’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action has proposed to gradually phase out subsidies for EV purchases through 2025 and completely eliminate any benefits to consumers purchasing plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) by the end of this year. The German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) is pushing back, arguing that…
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