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Ford’s Car of the Future, Hatched in a Skunk Works Near Los Angeles

11 décembre 2025 à 14:25
Desperate to catch up with Chinese automakers, Ford is redesigning its fleet with a Silicon Valley-style team. Is it too late?

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Doug Field, Ford Motor Company’s chief of electric vehicles, digital and design.

How Batteries Got Cheaper and Made the Electric Grid More Reliable

5 décembre 2025 à 05:00
An early grid battery was installed in the Atacama Desert in Chile 15 years ago. Now, as prices have tumbled, they are increasingly being used around the world.

Employees working on battery units at the solar project, which is owned by AES, a Virginia company that holds utilities and power plants across the world.

Auto Industry Was Warned For Years of Poisoning, Sickness From Car Batteries

25 novembre 2025 à 05:42
Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry.

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Workers at a battery-breaking yard in Lagos, Nigeria, loading dead car batteries to be recycled.

Auto Industry Was Warned For Years of Poisoning, Sickness From Car Batteries

25 novembre 2025 à 05:00
Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry.

© Finbarr O'Reilly for The New York Times

Workers at a battery-breaking yard in Lagos, Nigeria, loading dead car batteries to be recycled.
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  • Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People
    Recycling lead for U.S. car batteries is poisoning children — and we know because we tested them. Will Fitzgibbon, a reporter at The Examination, describes how children in Nigeria developed lead levels associated with lifelong brain damage, and how factory workers told us they were coughing up black dust.
     

Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People

Recycling lead for U.S. car batteries is poisoning children — and we know because we tested them. Will Fitzgibbon, a reporter at The Examination, describes how children in Nigeria developed lead levels associated with lifelong brain damage, and how factory workers told us they were coughing up black dust.

Batteries for Rad Power Bikes Get Federal Fire Risk Warning

24 novembre 2025 à 21:58
A federal watchdog said two models of batteries found in Rad Power Bikes should be immediately, and safely, disposed of. The bike company disputes the safety agency’s findings.

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The RadRunner and the RadWagon 4, made by Rad Power Bikes. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is urging people to stop using certain batteries made for these e-bike models.
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