How Your Child’s School Bus Might Prevent Blackouts
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How Your Child’s School Bus Might Prevent Blackouts

When not driving around, electric buses and other vehicles could help utilities by storing their solar and wind energy and releasing it to meet surges in demand.
Electric Planes, Once a Fantasy, Start to Take to the Skies
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Electric Planes, Once a Fantasy, Start to Take to the Skies

How a small cargo plane’s 16-day trip from Vermont to Florida might foreshadow a new era of battery-powered air travel long considered implausible.
Tesla Wins Suit That Blamed Its Software for Deadly Crash
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Tesla Wins Suit That Blamed Its Software for Deadly Crash

The decision by a California jury is the first involving a fatal accident that lawyers representing the victims said was the fault of Tesla’s self-driving technology.