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1 week ago | 
heatmap.news | Andrew Moseman
Picture, if you will, the perfect electric vehicle charging stop. It sits right off a well-traveled highway. It has decent bathrooms, preferably ones that are open 24/7. It gives drivers and road-tripping families a simple way to occupy themselves during the 15 to 30 minutes it takes to refill the battery, the most obvious solution being a meal that can be consumed within that time window. In other words, it is a Waffle House.
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4 weeks ago | 
heatmap.news | Andrew Moseman
Construction is a dirty business, literally and figuratively. Mud and gunk and tar come with the territory for those who erect buildings and pave roads for a living. And the industrial machines that provide the muscle for the task run on hulking diesel engines that spew carbon and soot as they work. Heavy equipment feels like an unlikely place to use all-electric power in order to ditch fossil fuels. The sheer size and intense workload of a loader or excavator means it has enormous energy needs.
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1 month ago | 
heatmap.news | Andrew Moseman
Maybe you remember the time before the “basic economy” fare. A ticket on a major airline like Delta or United used to come with a few automatic amenities, like the ability to choose one’s seats — or, before 2008, even to check a bag without a fee.
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1 month ago | 
heatmap.news | Andrew Moseman
At the New York International Auto Show this week, Subaru revealed a pair of fully electric vehicles. The newly announced Trailseeker and an updated version of the brand’s Solterra EV are nothing special compared to the other electric vehicles on the market — their range figures, charging speeds, and other stats are solidly middle-of-the-road. Yet their very existence is a leap forward for a car brand that has been wasting an opportunity to target climate-conscious car buyers.
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1 month ago | 
magazine.caltech.edu | Andrew Moseman
by Andrew Moseman Perhaps you have never taken a moment to wonder whether a whale has a belly button. To Rob Phillips, Caltech’s Fred and Nancy Morris Professor of Biophysics, Biology, and Physics, it is exactly the kind of intellectual exercise that amplifies curiosity and leads to a new way of looking at the world. This past winter term, Phillips taught a new class called, simply, The Whale (E100). The great mammals of the sea are fascinating and mysterious, Phillips says.
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2 months ago | 
heatmap.news | Andrew Moseman
More than a decade ago, when I was a young editor at Popular Mechanics, we got a Nissan Leaf. It was a big deal. The magazine had always kept long-term test cars to give readers a full report of how they drove over weeks and months. A true test of the first true production electric vehicle from a major car company felt like a watershed moment: The future was finally beginning. They even installed a destination charger in the basement of the Hearst Corporation’s Manhattan skyscraper.
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2 months ago | 
theatlantic.com | Andrew Moseman
In Los Angeles, where I live, you don’t expect to be heckled while driving an electric car to the grocery store. But on a recent afternoon, a couple of men on bikes saw the Tesla logo on the front of my car and shouted “Fuck you, Tesla guy” as I rolled by with the windows down. I bought my Tesla Model 3 in 2019, after my wife and I moved from New York to L.A. and needed a car. Not willing to burn gasoline, we got the most practical EV we could afford.
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2 months ago | 
heatmap.news | Andrew Moseman
President Trump has introduced yet another round of tariffs that could upend the car industry. The newest volley in his trade war promises to slap an extra 25% tax onto any automobile imported into the U.S. It’s a measure meant to sound like a safeguard for American industry against foreign incursion. The reality, as usual, is a lot more complicated. These tariffs will punish many of the most promising EVs on the market, including those sold by Detroit.
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2 months ago | 
altadena-now.com | Andrew Moseman
New Podcast Focuses on Caltech Scientists’ Race to Conduct Research after the January Fires By Andrew Moseman, CALTECH In the aftermath of the fires that raged across Los Angeles County in January—and in particular the Eaton fire that burned through parts of Altadena and got close to NASA’s JPL, which is managed by Caltech—the Institute did what it does best: came together as a community to support individuals touched by the tragedy and started asking and addressing the most critical research...
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2 months ago | 
pasadenanow.com | Andrew Moseman
In the aftermath of the fires that raged across Los Angeles County in January—and in particular the Eaton fire that burned through parts of Altadena and got close to NASA’s JPL, which is managed by Caltech—the Institute did what it does best: came together as a community to support individuals touched by the tragedy and started asking and addressing the most critical research questions.
