Los Angeles fire cleanup complicated by 'unprecedented' number of EVs with combustible lithium-ion batteries
California wildfire cleanup is complicated by highly combustible lithium-ion batteries found in electric and hybrid vehicles ...
Waymo is getting ready to tackle Los Angeles’ freeways. How have the robotaxis fared so far?
The self-driving taxi company Waymo launched in Los Angeles in November, bringing roughly 100 autonomous vehicles to ...
The Electric Vehicle Fight Turns to California
The future of EVs might hinge on a decades-old air pollution law. Whether the law is upheld will have ramifications far ...
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Los Angeles fire cleanup complicated by 'unprecedented' number of EVs with combustible lithium-ion batteries
Highly combustible lithium-ion batteries used in electric and hybrid vehicles are complicating cleanup efforts in the Los Angeles neighborhoods ravaged by wildfire damage. Phase 1 of the federal ...
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LA's electric vehicle obsession hampers fire cleanup amid fears lithium-ion batteries are ticking time bombs
We don’t know the long-term effects of all this exposure, and we haven't seen this on this large of a scale and this many electric vehicles,' Los Angeles City Fire Captain Adam VanGerpen told NBC. ' ...
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Can Los Angeles Power a Future Full of Electric Cars?
California approved a plan to phase out the sale of all gas cars and light trucks by 2035. With the 2035 deadline now only a ...
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Meryl Streep ‘cut a car-sized hole in the fence,’ fled fire through a neighbor’s yard, nephew says
Meryl Streep took matters into her own hands — literally — as wildfires rampaged across Los Angeles County earlier ... s wire cutters and “cut a car-size hole in the fence” they shared.