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Ford Recalling 130,000 Lincoln Aviator SUVs Over Detaching C-Pillar

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Relevant to the recall are “certain” examples of the Lincoln Aviator from the 2020-2025 model years. An internal investigation followed, revealing over 1,000 warranty claims of the C-pillar applique or division bar falling off vehicles globally. Regardless, Blue Oval claims to have caught wind of the problem in April of this year.

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2024 Honda Prologue: Japan’s most American brand gets serious about EVs

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Honda is often known as the world’s largest maker of internal combustion engines—more than 14 million of them a year. It’s worth noting that the Prologue presently carries heavy incentives, from the federal $7,500 point-of-purchase rebate to Honda’s own internal spiffs. Is it really a Honda?

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Can a New Power Link Boost the EU’s Energy Independence?

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Fossil fuels still represent 90 percent of Azerbaijans exports and up to 50 percent of its GDP, according to the International Energy Agency. In 2016, for example, the country set a goal of sourcing 20 percent of its energy from renewables by 2020. A 2022 road map from the World Bank, the International Finance Corp.,

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NHTSA Closes File On Nissan VC Turbo Recall

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liter four-cylinder engines found in the 2019-2020 Altima, 2021-2024 Rogue, 2019-2022 Infiniti QX50, and 2022 Infiniti QX55 had issues with bearing failure. You may remember the massive Nissan VC Turbo engine recall from earlier this month. It was at 430,000 cars when we covered it, and the number went up to nearly 444K.

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IEEE Recognizes Itaipu Dam’s Engineering Achievements

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TWh in 2016 (surpassed in 2020 by Three Gorges 111.8-TWh Itaipus legacy endures as a testament to the benefits of international cooperation and sustainable energy and to the power of engineering to shape the future. Although Chinas 22.5-GW On average, Itaipu generates around 90 terawatt-hours of electricity annually. TWh output).

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SpaceX Astronauts Splash Down Off California Coast for the First Time

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The first SpaceX astronaut mission, a test flight in May 2020 with Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken of NASA aboard, launched to the International Space Station. Twenty missions using an earlier version of the companys Dragon capsule to carry cargo to the space station from 2012 to 2020 all splashed down there.

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Tesla’s Omead Afshar, known as Elon Musk’s right-hand man, leaves company: reports

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His name no longer appears in the company’s internal directory. He then became a Project Director, before his job title was updated to a Cowboy hat emoji in July 2020, around the time Tesla started moving some things to Texas. It is interesting to think about what could have caused this. This has yet to be confirmed.