In 2016, Bloomberg’s Tom Randal boldly proclaimed “It’s looking like the 2020s will be the decade of the electric car.” It’s been eight years since, and electric vehicle (or EV) sales are dropping, worrying vendors and legislators over the durability of the California climate plan. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, cars contributed to […]
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California’s Support for Tesla is a One-Way Street
A Puzzling Return Elon Musk’s decision to open a new Tesla global engineering headquarters in Palo Alto at the former site of Hewlett Packard in February 2023 may have raised some eyebrows. After all, just 16 months before, the controversial tech billionaire moved the headquarters of the California-founded company to Austin, Texas. That move came […]
It’s Time for the Age of the Airship to Return
So I said goodbye to all my friends And packed my hopes inside a matchbox Because I know it’s time to fly – Led Zeppelin, Night Flight, 1975 In just 34 seconds on May 6, 1937 the future of airships went up in smoke — and fire — as the airship Hindenburg LZ 129, lead ship […]