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The Future Of Tesla Is In Musk’s Hands

CleanTechnica EVs

How does a 2023 New York Times magazine cover frame the Tesla CEO in light of upcoming lawsuits? Is the company in the grasp of a leader whose perceived spontaneity is really the product of calculated thinking?

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Farewell, Philip E. Ross

Cars That Think

Phil started his journalism career in 1987 in the Detroit bureau of The New York Times. Private Eye magazine from the 1970s. In the rollicking 1990s, Forbes hired him away from Scientific American , and then a startup magazine called Red Herring hired him away from Forbes. It was late 1999 through early 2000.

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This town is going to cover its cemetery with solar canopies

Baua Electric

Éric Boquaire, the president of Brier’energie, told pv magazine France that the 8,000-square-meter (86,111-square-foot) canopy will consist of 5,000 solar panels. That’s because the commune of Saint-Joachim is in the center of the Brière marsh. French associations Brier’energie and RECIT are spearheading the project.

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Life With Tesla Model S: Three Days Of Service Nirvana

Green Car Reports

A few months ago, some minor glitches in my 2013 Tesla Model S were fixed at the Tesla service center in White Plains, New York. It was a perfectly satisfactory experience, pretty much like any other service visit: Drive to the shop, read magazines for a couple of hours, get the car back, drive home.

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Celebrating the Life of Columbia Professor Stephen Unger

Cars That Think

From Bell Labs to Columbia Unger received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1952 from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York, now the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He was a Guggenheim Fellow as well as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Tesla Model S: Glitches, Quirks, and Peccadilloes Roundup

Green Car Reports

The New York Times has called the all-electric luxury sport sedan a game-changer, comparable to the Model T Ford. It's won virtually every 2012 "Car of the Year" honor, including the only unanimous Motor Trend award in the magazine's 65-year history. To put it mildly, the Tesla Model S has been a resounding success.

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Is America’s Electrician Shortage Hurting our Ability To Get Away from Fossil Fuels?

Clean Fleet Report

The director of a regional apprenticeship program of the Laborers’ International Union of North America said to David Owen of The New York Times that, despite union members earning more than $50 per hour (in wages and benefits), one challenge “is overcoming the hesitation of parents who worry that “laborer” means “sweeper.”

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