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Polestar recalls almost all Polestar 2 electric cars over inverter and battery issues

October 31, 2020
Polestar announced today that it is recalling almost all Polestar 2 electric cars that it has delivered globally over an issue with its power inverter and its battery pack coolant heater. It’s not easy to be an EV startup. Polestar is Volvo’s former performance brand recently relaunched as an electric vehicle brand. It recently started producing the Polestar, its first all-electric vehicle…
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Tesla officially increases price of its Full Self-Driving Kickstarter campaign to $10,000

October 31, 2020
Tesla has now officially increased the price of its Full Self-Driving package to $10,000 in the US. That’s quite a price for a model that most closely resembles a Kickstarter campaign. In a Kickstarter campaign, companies ask customers to purchase a product before it is fully completed or in production. They basically ask customers to help pay for the development of the product and in…
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Quick Charge Podcast: October 29, 2020

October 31, 2020
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
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Tesla tests Supercharger limited time discounts to offset expensive peak demand charges

October 31, 2020
Tesla is apparently starting to test discounted rates at Supercharger stations in order to offset expensive peak demand charges. Do you think it’s going to work? Electric utilities are making large energy users pay ‘demand charges’ during peak use that can be quite taxing, especially to charging station operators. Charging stations by nature suffer from big discrepancies between their lows…
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UAE could get up to 50 F-35s in $10B sale

October 31, 2020
WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department is backing the sale of as many as 50 F-35 joint strike fighters to the United Arab Emirates in an arms deal worth an estimated $10.4 billion, according to multiple reports. The news came as the Trump administration informally…
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Lockheed is developing a system to turn airlift planes into weapons trucks

October 31, 2020
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force could be one year away from being able to load its cargo planes with pallets of smart weapons, transforming them into strike aircraft without the need for expensive and lengthy modifications. In August, the Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth up to $25 million to develop a palletized munitions system, Scott Callaway, director…
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