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AutoCanada resolves $250M lawsuit towards former CEO Patrick Priestner

Baua Electric

and the corporate’s founder and previous CEO Patrick Priestner have settled a yearslong prison fight, with neither celebration admitting wrongdoing or legal responsibility. AutoCanada Inc. In a joint commentary Sept. 8, the 2 firms introduced they’d assuredly to unravel the 2019 swimsuit towards Priestner.

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Driving Dystopia: More Companies Found Covertly Sharing Driving Data, Raising Insurance Rates

The Truth About Cars

With corporate media finally aware of the perils of connected vehicles, we’ve seen a rash of articles exploring how insurance rates have spiked due to automakers sharing user data. The entire business model is predicated upon this, minus the fact that it became a legal requirement to drive in most states by 1970.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

Cars That Think

In the winter of 1973, corporate managers summoned Whittingham to the company’s New York City offices to appear before a subcommittee of the Exxon board. “I They asked company cofounder Nikola Marincic to turn the slurries into cylindrical cells, like the kind someone might buy for a flashlight. But he found no takers.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

I said I would consider it, but that I was really hoping to establish a precedent, legally speaking, beyond Torrance. You pay your corporate taxes on-line. Well let’s see, they want to do a million roofs by 2016 and they’re up to 70,000 now. I want it to be all of California. And this is boring. I want it to go away.

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EPA Administrator broadly outlines Trump Administration thinking on fuel economy standards and California

Green Car Congress

In August 2018, EPA and US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to adjust the Congressionally-mandated Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards. Earlier post.). —Andrew Wheeler.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

Cars That Think

My primary appointment is at the law school where I teach legal philosophy. So it was from 1600 to 2014, about whether you’re allowed legally to go to war. And how does it relate to legal and ethical questions we have? Schneider: Before we talk about your book, tell me a little bit about yourself. What about cyber war?”

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