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WHYY reports Philadelphia’s Proterra electric bus fleet sidelined due to cracked chassis and other defects

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In a March 2021 email, SEPTA General Manager Leslie Richards said she planned to tell Federal Transit Administration officials, who helped underwrite the initial purchase of Proterra buses with a $2.6 A protracted legal back-and-forth began, with Proterra maintaining the buses should be put back into service and SEPTA insisting on a fix.

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TRATON AG and Hino to join forces in e-mobility, plan to establish procurement JV

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The future procurement joint venture with balanced rights is planned as a small but powerful entity between both parties, leveraging synergies in purchasing. For this purpose, investment banks and legal advisors will be mandated in a timely manner. Joining their forces will strengthen their innovation power, the partners said.

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Daimler takes minority stake in Sila Nanotechnologies; next-generation lithium-ion battery materials

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Daimler expects electric models to already make up between 15 and 25 percent of Mercedes-Benz Cars total sales by 2025, depending on the framework conditions such as the development of the infrastructure, the individual customer preferences and the further development of the particular market-specific legal situation.

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Tesla changes Full Self-Driving’s unreleased features from ‘later this year’ to ‘coming soon’

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For example, in 2019, Tesla has also listed some features as if they were set for release “later this year.” ” However, the automaker failed to roll out these functions before the end of 2019 or 2020, and the language was never changed, until now.

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Tesla sues man for $650k in defamation lawsuit after he won $150k from automaker

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Han Chao has posted images of legal documents that indicate Tesla is suing him for 5.05 ” The follow-up suit from Tesla comes just ten days after the conclusion of the previous suit, where Chao was awarded a sizeable payout for purchasing a second-hand Tesla Model S in May 2019. A court later ruled that Han was right.

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After Tesla trademarked ‘CYBERBACKPACK,’ the product’s inventor sits at a crossroads

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Riz Nwosu was inspired when he went to the Tesla Cybertruck unveiling in 2019. After snagging some pictures with the newly-revealed Cybertruck and company CEO Elon Musk, Riz developed a backpack inspired by the futuristic pickup he saw in Hawthorne, California, in late 2019. November 2019.

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Michigan Perfect Courtroom opinion has ‘vast implications’ for provider commitments, provide chain

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” The dispute between MSSC and AirBoss arose in mid-2019 when AirBoss started to enjoy losses on portions it used to be supplying to MSSC for suspense programs being constructed for Stellantis. They’ll want to assess in line with this opinion — do they have got a legally suitable necessities oath.”