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NHTSA ODI opens preliminary evaluation of Tesla Autopilot following 11 crashes at first responder scenes

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Since January 2018, ODI has identified eleven crashes in which Tesla models of various configurations have encountered first responder scenes and subsequently struck one or more vehicles involved with those scenes. 05/29/2018. 01/22/2018. 05/19/2021. 03/17/2021. 02/27/2021. Montgomery County. 08/26/2020. 07/30/2020. 01/22/2020.

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US DOE awards EPRI $5.1M for advanced nuclear technology

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DOE announced previous funding awards in 2018, 2019, and 2020. EPRI) of Palo Alto, California and Charlotte, North Carolina to: Develop and establish MIC-EBW capability at a major US fabricator. This is the ninth round of funding provided through this FOA. million to the Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.

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3 AutoNation USA retail outlets obvious up to now this while

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The struggle persisted, to start with, till 2018, when AutoNation stated it might idleness the ones enlargement plans. Charlotte, N.C.; Beneath then-CEO Mike Jackson, AutoNation in 2016 revived the AutoNation USA emblem, years nearest Jackson had closed lots of the team’s used-only retail outlets. Louis; Henderson, Nev.;

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NHTSA launches Tesla Autopilot investigation over crashes with emergency vehicles

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The NHTSA has identified 11 collisions since 2018 involving Teslas on either Autopilot or Traffic-Aware Cruise Control which ended up hitting parked emergency vehicles. The investigation would be covering 765,000 vehicles from the start of the 2014 to the 2021 model year that were sold in the United States.

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Panda Power finances conversion of retired coal plant to natural gas; one of largest power conversion projects in US

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The plant is expected to supply large power markets, including Philadelphia and the New York metropolitan area, when it enters commercial operations in the first quarter of 2018. The turbines for the Hummel generating station will be manufactured at Siemens’ manufacturing facility in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Oerlikon expands additive manufacturing R&D and production capacity in the US

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Oerlikon is expanding its global additive manufacturing (AM) business with a state-of-the-art R&D and production facility for additively manufactured advanced components in the Charlotte metro area in North Carolina, USA. The addition of the new site in Charlotte brings Oerlikon’s AM network to four locations globally.

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Is standard lithium LTD a sham?

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Albemarle : Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a market cap of $26.8bn. LiSTR is based on three patent applications it purchased in 2018 from an apparent one-man engineering shop. The firm holds lithium resources across Australia, Argentina, and Mexico and has over 4,844 employees. It reported a revenue of 2020 $839.26