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Check out the arrival of Rivian's onsite wind turbine [video]

In June 2022, Rivian announced it would install a 2.8 megawatt wind turbine at its Normal, Illinois, factory – and the turbine’s final components have now arrived. Rivian has partnered with Charlottesville, Virginia-based Apex Clean Energy to install the new wind turbine. Once it’s online, it will be capable of generating nearly 10 million kilowatt-hours of electricity a year – the…
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Quick Charge Podcast: June 10, 2023

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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How AI Is transforming business outcomes across industries and sectors

Since late last year, AI development has gained momentum at what seems like an inexorable pace. From large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 that are capable of extraordinary cognitive feats (like scoring in the 90th percentile on the Uniform Bar Examination) to ASR platforms like ASAPP (which has reached 98.25% accuracy), it’s clear that the tempo of progress in AI will only continue to…
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Pennsylvania's largest coal plant is shutting down in July

The Homer City coal-burning power station – Pennsylvania’s largest coal plant – is going to be retired permanently in July 2023.  The 1,888-megawatt (MW) plant, located around 50 miles east of Pittsburgh, was built near coal reserves and included what was then a high-capacity (345-kilovolt) transmission line to service areas in western New York and Eastern Pennsylvania. It began to…
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White House throws some cold water on Tesla's NACS victory

The White House decided to rain on Tesla’s victory parade for its connector, NACS, becoming the charging standard in North America. The government still wants some CCS connectors to be included in order to get funding. After Ford and GM both announced that they plan to adopt NACS as the new connector in their future electric vehicles, Tesla’s connector has basically become the new standard in…
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