Teslarati

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Nikola Corporation will pay a $125 million penalty to settle charges against founder Trevor Milton, who misled investors and is currently under indictment for three counts of fraud. The company also said it would seek reimbursement from Milton for costs and damages related to the investigation and subsequent penalty.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2018

The first count charges that Winterkorn conspired with other senior VW executives and employees to defraud the United States, defraud VW’s US customers and violate the Clean Air Act by making false representations to regulators and the public about the ability of VW’s supposedly “clean diesel” vehicles to comply with US emissions requirements.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Last Friday, Toshiba announced "a bold and ambitious plan to separate into three standalone companies," an unprecedented move by a large Japanese corporation, let alone one with such a storied history as Toshiba, established in 1875.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

The remaining violations were discovered as the scope of the investigation broadened based on allegations of historical violations at the companies’ other facilities. Duke Energy Corporation subsidiaries also operate facilities with coal ash basins in South Carolina (approximately 5.99 million tons of coal ash).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Founded in 1992, USCAR is the collaborative automotive technology company for Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors. USCAR is a partner in US DRIVE, which stands for United States Driving Research and Innovation for Vehicle efficiency and Energy sustainability.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2011

The new shareholder group was led by KERN Partners and included Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) and two large Canadian institutional investors, while existing major shareholders Warburg Pincus LLC and Blackstone Capital Partners participated for a significant portion of the financing. Scotia Waterous Inc.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2023

And yet this transformative invention took nearly two decades to make it out of the lab, with numerous companies in the United States, Europe, and Asia considering the technology and yet failing to recognize its potential. Moreover, company executives thought Whittingham’s concept was unlikely to ever be broadly successful.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

This month, Airbnb announced that, starting April 30, the company would ban the use of surveillance cameras in its rentals. Reasonable expectation of privacy’ Though regulations vary by state, more legal protections cover nonconsensual videotaping in private areas such as bedrooms and bathrooms.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2010

Auto manufacturers are legally obligated to notify NHTSA within five business days if they determine that a safety defect exists. NHTSA learned through documents obtained from Toyota that the company knew of the sticky pedal defect since at least September 29, 2009. Approximately 2.3

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

announced that the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the "Court") has granted A123 interim approval to use $50 million of Debtor-in-Possession (DIP) financing, which is being provided by Wanxiang Group Corporation (Wanxiang). He suggested that what the company calls its “stalking horse”—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2011

KMI) and El Paso Corporation on Sunday announced a definitive agreement whereby KMI will acquire all of the outstanding shares of EP in a transaction that will create the largest midstream and the fourth-largest energy company in North America with an enterprise value of approximately $94 billion and 80,000 miles of pipelines.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 21, 2024

Corporations and governments use it to make pledges and announce sustainability measures. Industry belched out smoke and sludge with little fear of legal consequences or bad press. It is a day of political action and civic participation. And the automotive industry too is doing its bit to ensure green motoring.

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. Other companies, including Apple and Tandy Corp. The company stumbled badly, its bureaucratic approach to product development no match for a fast-moving field.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

According to the market-analysis firm Point Carbon, if a cap-and-trade system is instituted in the United States, the demand for carbon credits could explode into a $2 to $3 trillion market. But Kyoto also allows companies to purchase “offsets”: credits from emissions-reducing projects in developing countries.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The tokens, along with using smart contracts to reduce legal fees, would make real-time exchange and monetization feasible, he says. The secretive project was envisioned to allow AT&T to provide fixed wireless access throughout the United States, Alamouti says. From selling makeup to becoming an engineer.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2011

The current vehicle footprint-based Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards create a financial incentive for automakers to increase vehicle size, except under certain limited conditions of consumer preference for vehicle size, according to a study by University of Michigan researchers Kate Whitefoot and Steven Skerlos.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

All of this behavior is perfectly legal, they add. Under the Canadian feebate program, cars that get 43 mpg, for example, qualify for a $2,000 rebate, while cars that get 42 mpg receive a $1,500 rebate. Likewise, vehicles getting less than 18 mpg are taxed up to $4,000.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2024

Washington’s drive to make the United States a major global lithium producer is being held back by a confusing mix of state regulations that are deterring developers and hampering efforts to break China’s control of the critical minerals sector. Nevada, which has the only commercial U.S.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 18, 2024

According to Automotive News , Lithium America is claiming it’s the “only fully permitted new lithium mining project” inside the United States “with a clear path to production.” The company has worked to appease concerns with concessions, including a community benefits agreement.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. Icons designed in the United States often lack space for translations into languages other than English.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 25, 2022

On February 11, 1955, an anonymous tip led two New York Police Department detectives and two New York Telephone Company investigators to an apartment on the fourth floor of a residential building at 360 East 55th Street in midtown Manhattan. Ruh, two rogue employees of the New York Telephone Company. The two firms, Bristol-Myers and.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 31, 2024

But it’s requiring additional integration with a company boasting ties to both the Chinese government and its military. They specifically asked the agency to consider placing the companies on a list of entities subject to significant U.S. Battery production is indeed being localized. Meanwhile, U.S. trade restrictions. "To

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Leonardo da Vinci stated it best when he said, “Simplicity is the highest form of sophistication.” For companies, a main worry constitutes the risk of imitation by the partner. Other transaction costs include the search of partners, the drafting of contracts, legal assistance, etc.

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Cars That Think

JULY 26, 2023

My primary appointment is at the law school where I teach legal philosophy. And I had a small database construction company, but then gave it up when I went to law school and then graduate school on philosophy. So it was from 1600 to 2014, about whether you’re allowed legally to go to war. What about cyber war?”

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