High-Mileage Electric Cars Fail Fewer UK Tests, but Batteries Go Unchecked
High-mileage electric cars failed Britain’s annual roadworthiness inspection less often than comparable combustion cars in a 47.4-million-test analysis. Yet the…
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Tesla Discharges and Replaces Powerwall 2 Batteries After UK Fire Warning
Tesla is remotely discharging and replacing certain Powerwall 2 home batteries after a UK safety investigation identified an internal cell…
Federal Regulators Open Tesla Suspension Probe Covering 1.2 Million Vehicles Over Control Risk
Federal safety regulators are investigating approximately 1.2 million Tesla Model 3 sedans and Model Y SUVs after receiving 156 complaints…
Airbus A350F Flies Two Years Late, Starting Nine-Month Approval Campaign
The Airbus A350F has finally flown, but the delayed cargo aircraft is not yet close to carrying revenue freight. Its…
Boston Logan Asks Airlines to Carry Extra Fuel as Storm Blocks Ships
Extra fuel can protect a flight from a shortage at its destination, but carrying it creates another problem: fuel itself…
Ukrainian Refinery Drone Strikes Push Russian Trucking Rates Up 12% to 15%
Diesel disruption reaches a trucking network through a simple cost equation: when fuel becomes more expensive or harder to obtain,…
AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act Clears House, Raising Electric-Car Costs
Preserving free AM radio in new cars is straightforward as a policy goal but less straightforward as an electric-vehicle engineering…
Six Countries Pursue $15,000 Merops Interceptors to Cut Drone-Defense Costs
At least six countries have bought or are pursuing the American-made Merops counter-drone system, according to an unnamed U.S. defense…
Reported F-35 Parts Diversion to China Prompts Pentagon Review Request
A shipment containing F-35 Lightning II components left Australia for the United States but was reportedly diverted to Hong Kong…
SpaceX Reportedly Plans Crew Dragon Exit After 2030, Risking Transport Gap
NASA wants privately operated space stations to replace the International Space Station, but the spacecraft that now provides its proven…
Ford Recalls 2,275 Rangers as Pillar Trim May Obstruct Curtain Airbags
A side-curtain airbag needs a clear path as it inflates along the side of a vehicle’s cabin. In 2,275 Ford…
Ukrainian Drone Strikes Halt Novorossiysk Grain Terminals, Leaving Only Smallest Operating
A high-capacity export network can be obstructed without every port remaining closed. The critical factor is whether alternative terminals and…
Ukraine’s Crimea Drone Campaign Reportedly Cut Power to 1.4 Million Residents
About 1.4 million Crimea residents reportedly lost electricity during one week as a Ukrainian drone campaign disrupted the Russian-occupied peninsula’s…
Russian Transport Ministry Proposes More Jet Fuel With Cold-Region Restrictions
Russia’s Ministry of Transport reportedly wants to increase jet-fuel production by relaxing a key cold-weather requirement, but the additional fuel…
Russia Reports Fuel Restrictions Across 16 Regions After Ukrainian Drone Strikes
A major petroleum producer is importing refined fuel while filling stations across at least 16 Russian regions reportedly face shortages,…
Amid Ukrainian Drone Strikes, Some Russian Motor-Oil Prices Double as Deliveries Slow
Motor oil is not simply crude oil poured into a bottle. A finished lubricant combines domestically refined base oil with…
Navy Ordered to Plan Fifth Shipyard, but Construction Funding Remains Unsecured
The Pentagon must plan the first new public U.S. naval shipyard in more than 80 years, even as the Navy’s…
Radio Astron Data Distinguish Jets From Two Supermassive Black Holes in OJ287
A 10-meter radio antenna traveling as far as roughly halfway to the Moon gave astronomers something Earth-bound observatories cannot provide:…
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