Ford Motor Co. is facing legal challenges to its dealer certification program for electric vehicles from retailers in three states who argue that the plan violates franchise laws. A group of 27 dealerships in Illinois filed a protest with the state’s motor vehicle review board Friday, and four dealers in New York filed suit against…
A Republican-led county in Arizona that flouted a statutory deadline for election certification ended up certifying its results Thursday shortly after a judge ordered officials there to take action.Officials in Cochise County voted 2-0 to accept the results of the Nov. 8 election, enabling statewide certification to move forward Monday.Ann English, the sole Democrat on…
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., earlier this week said he planned to ask the Federal Trade Commission, as well as state authorities, to investigate Ford Motor Co.’s electric vehicle certification program over potential violations of franchise laws in what he labeled an “egregious treatment” of dealers. Blumenthal joined a bipartisan group of Connecticut state legislators in…
Lordstown Motors Corp. made first deliveries on its initial batch of 500 electric pickups for commercial fleet customers. The Lordstown, Ohio, EV startup on Tuesday said it began to move its Endurance pickup after receiving homologation certification from the U.S. government. The Department of Transportation must provide certification a vehicle meets U.S. codes before a…
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy finally spoke out Tuesday on Donald Trump meeting with a white supremacist…sort of.It has been one week since Trump met with Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust denier and white supremacist, and rapper Kanye West, another outspoken antisemite. Republicans have been largely silent on the matter, or they have avoided explicitly criticizing…
Republican officials in a rural Arizona county refused Monday to certify the 2022 election ahead of the deadline amid pressure from prominent Republicans to reject a vote count that had Democrats winning for U.S. Senate, governor, and other statewide races.State election officials have vowed to sue Cochise County if the board of supervisors misses Monday’s…
Viridian Solar has released a new 7 kW wall-mounted EV charger, Honda has secured certification to run a virtual power plant in Germany, and Bosch has joined forces with IBM to use quantum computing to conduct research on electromobility materials. November 21, 2022 Marija MaischViridian Solar has launched Clearline EV, a new electric-vehicle charger. The…
The FlashStart DNS Filter: the innovative content filter and malware protection software natively integrated on MikroTik RouterOS. Press Release – Nov 20, 2022 09:00 EST MILAN, November 20, 2022 (Newswire.com) – FlashStart, the DNS filter present in more than 10 thousand companies, schools, and institutions around the world, has obtained the Made for MikroTik (MFM)…
Should organizations that bestow board certifications be required to meet particular standards? That was one of the questions debated by members of the American Medical Association’s (AMA) House of Delegates at its meeting this week. The delegates discussed on Tuesday a resolution that would amend AMA policy to say that board certification programs “must first…
As Verne understood, the U.S. Civil War (during which 60,000 amputations were performed) inaugurated the modern prosthetics era in the United States, thanks to federal funding and a wave of design patents filed by entrepreneurial prosthetists. The two World Wars solidified the for-profit prosthetics industry in both the United States and Western Europe, and the…
