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Electric Car Adoption Is Slowed Down By ‘Dismissive And Deceptive Car Dealerships’, Finds New Study | Electrek

May 22, 2018 mdbincbi

In the US, a study found that the electric vehicle shopping experience at car dealers is quite poor and a problem for EV adoption. Now, a new study finds a similar problem in Europe where “dismissive and deceptive car dealerships create barriers to electric vehicle adoption at the point of sale.” That’s the actual title of the research paper published in the Nature Energy science magazine by researchers from Aarhus University, Denmark and the University of Sussex. The study is based on “126 shopping experiences at 82 car dealerships across Denmark, Finland,…

Utilities, Tesla Appeal Federal Rollback Of Auto Emissions Standards | Ars Technica

May 20, 2018 mdbincbi

A coalition of utilities and electric vehicle makers, including Tesla, filed a petition with a US Federal Appeals Court to force the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider its recent work to roll back auto emissions standards. One of the first actions that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt took when he assumed office in 2017 was to start the process of rolling back passenger vehicle greenhouse gas standards for automakers. The standards had been made official late in the Obama presidency, but the Trump administration claimed that the standards were too burdensome…

Your Legal Pot Buying Data Could Get You Banned From The U.S., Lawyers Warn – National | Globalnews.ca

April 22, 2018 mdbincbi

As laws on marijuana relax on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border, attitudes have hardened at the border itself. When Canadians are able to buy legal recreational marijuana sometime this year, we are going to start generating a lot of consumer data. Some of it will be clearly linked to individuals: credit card purchases at physical stores and online ordering to home addresses, for example. And that could have lasting consequences. Canadians can be barred for life from the United States — even after legalization here — if a border…

FTC Warns Companies That Void Warranties Over Using 3rd Party Services | TechCrunch

April 12, 2018 mdbincbi

The days of reading the small print to see whether a repair or new part for your ailing laptop will void its warranty may be coming to an end. The FTC has officially warned several companies that their policies of ceasing support when a user attempts “non-approved” repairs or servicing are likely illegal. It’s the sort of thing where if you buy a device or car from a company, they inform you that unless you use approved, often internally branded parts, you’re voiding the warranty and your item will no…

The Evolution of U.S. Electric Vehicle Charging Points [Infographic] | Forbes

April 9, 2018 mdbincbi

What a difference a decade makes. In 2017, people planning on following the electric route had a choice of 25 battery-electric vehicles, along with 26 plug-in hybrid models. As cars such as the Chevrolet Volt, Nissan Leaf and Tesla Models S and X became increasingly common sights on U.S. roads, the charging network also evolved to keep pace. The number of outlets really started to take off in 2012 when the total count nationwide hit 12,000. By the end of 2017, the number had surpassed 47,000 (including 6,270 fast charging…

US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years Of Social Media Info – Engadget

March 30, 2018March 30, 2018 mdbincbi

The State Department wants to require all US visa applicants, both immigrant and non, disclose their social media handles to the US government, CNN reports. In documents that the department will file to the Federal Register tomorrow, it proposes that nearly every individual applying for a US visa be required to hand over any social media handles used on certain platforms in the past five years as well as submit any telephone numbers and email addresses used during that same time period. Previously, this information was only requested from visa…

Canadian Customs Facilities In The U.S.? Americans Say It Could Happen Soon – Politics – CBC News

March 26, 2018March 30, 2018 mdbincbi

Canada could soon have its first customs facilities inside the United States, says an American official who cites Florida and Arizona as potential sites for pilot projects in ongoing experiments to modernize the border. This would come decades after American preclearance facilities were first placed at major Canadian airports, where travellers have long cleared customs before flying to the U.S., with the goal of reducing wait times at the back end. Newer innovations involve train travel, with pilot projects to have rail passengers clear U.S. customs in Montreal and B.C.,…

Heavily Indebted Canadians Need To Watch U.S. Interest Rate Announcement: Don Pittis – Business – CBC News

March 20, 2018 mdbincbi

A rise in U.S. interest rates tomorrow is so confidently expected by nearly everyone that a failure to hike rates would shock world markets. In his first official press conference since taking over for Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell is expected to set the direction for interest rate increases this year and into the more distant future. What he says will matter to investors around the world. It will also matter to Canadian borrowers. One reason market watchers are so confident Powell will raise the key U.S. federal funds rate from 1.5 to…

Tesla Model 3 Review | Digital Trends

March 19, 2018 mdbincbi

The most exciting vehicle on the market isn’t a million-dollar supercar, a broad-shouldered truck, or a seven-passenger SUV. No, the car the world can’t wait to drive is an all-electric sedan from a startup automaker called Tesla. By making EVs cool and promising affordable, innovative products, Tesla has forced the hand of automakers lest they yield too much business to the technology upstart. The Model 3 isn’t the only long range EV available for less than $40K (see also the 238-mile range Chevy Bolt EV), but it is directly responsible…