/ This year’s Specialty Equipment Market Association conference in Las Vegas was awash with electromods, vintage trucks, and EV conversion kits that could signal the future of electrification. Image: Nissan The Specialty Equipment Market Association, or SEMA, held its annual conference in Las Vegas this week. Billed as one of the biggest car shows in… Continue reading The most interesting EV concepts at the 2022 SEMA conference
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Southwest Airlines just made a twisted admission that’ll infuriate customers
Coulda, woulda, shoulda? Southwest Airlines/Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk Do you find yourself breathing a little more deeply these days? more Technically Incorrect The evenings are getting ever darker, the pressure of work ever more intractable. You need to be somewhere different. You need to experience different people, different places, and different smells. You want, in… Continue reading Southwest Airlines just made a twisted admission that’ll infuriate customers
Clean Technica: How Much Tesla Earned Per Car Delivered in Q3002358
Year over year, Tesla’s net income more than doubled in the third quarter, and CEO Elon Musk seems to think the company could someday outpace some of the world’s largest companies. With Tesla and other automakers facing high prices on raw materials and continued challenges ahead of recession expectations, the company is pulling in a… Continue reading Clean Technica: How Much Tesla Earned Per Car Delivered in Q3002358
Clean Technica: Plugins 22.4% Share In France, BEVs Up, PHEVs Down, Megane Ascendant002357
Plugin electric vehicles (EVs) took 22.4% share of France’s auto market in October, down from 22.9% YoY. Full electrics grew share slightly, while plugin hybrids declined more. Overall auto market volume was 124,981 units up 5.5% YoY. October’s best selling full electric was the Peugeot 208, with the Renault Megane the longer term leader. October’s… Continue reading Clean Technica: Plugins 22.4% Share In France, BEVs Up, PHEVs Down, Megane Ascendant002357
Fired Twitter Employee Unloads on Elon Musk’s “Clowntown”
Ouch. Crapshoot While lots and lots of laid off Twitter employees are undoubtedly upset at having lost their livelihoods, at least one is relieved to be leaving the worsening cesspool as it continues its downfall under Elon Musk’s ownership. “Honestly happy to be laid off but the veil of [Elon Musk] is pierced,” tweeted Kushal… Continue reading Fired Twitter Employee Unloads on Elon Musk’s “Clowntown”
Twitter’s Head of Safety says election integrity is ‘top priority’ in spite of layoffs
Twitter’s top safety executive says election integrity is a “top priority” for the company even as the company has shed half of its staff in the last 24 hours. Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of safety and one of the company leaders to survive mass layoffs, took to Twitter to downplay moderation concerns raised by activists… Continue reading Twitter’s Head of Safety says election integrity is ‘top priority’ in spite of layoffs
Virgin Hyperloop appears to have dropped its Virgin branding
Something’s going on at Virgin Hyperloop, the startup attempting to bring Elon Musk’s vision of high-speed trains to life. At some point in the last few weeks, the company has quietly changed its name back to Hyperloop One, the brand it used between 2016 and 2017. Its website has been scrubbed clean, too, using an… Continue reading Virgin Hyperloop appears to have dropped its Virgin branding
Watch the last total lunar eclipse until 2025 on November 8th
You’re about to get your last chance at witnessing a total lunar eclipse for quite some time. NASA has pointed out that the last such eclipse until March 2025 begins in the early morning hours of November 8th in North America. Parts of Asia, Australia, New Zealand and South America can also get a glimpse.… Continue reading Watch the last total lunar eclipse until 2025 on November 8th
Advertisers continue to flee Twitter as civil rights groups call for a boycott
As Elon Musk looks for new ways to make money from Twitter’s he’s facing a much more urgent problem: advertisers are fleeing the platform. Musk said Friday that “Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue” due to advertisers’ concerns about content moderation and other issues raised by activists. A number of major companies have… Continue reading Advertisers continue to flee Twitter as civil rights groups call for a boycott
Xbox Cloud Gaming gets a resolution boost on Steam Deck and ChromeOS
Folks who access Xbox Cloud Gaming through a browser on ChromeOS and Linux systems (including Steam Deck) will likely now have an improved experience. The game-streaming service should be available at a higher resolution on those platforms. It should run more smoothly as well. As spotted by Windows Central, an Xbox employee who goes by… Continue reading Xbox Cloud Gaming gets a resolution boost on Steam Deck and ChromeOS