Tesla targets city centers for supercharger network expansion
Tesla Inc. is trying to make it easier for city dwellers without plugs at home or at work to own its electric cars, targeting city centers with the expansion of its supercharger network.
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2018 Nissan Leaf: Does it pioneer the ‘mid-range’ electric car?
With the 2018 Nissan Leaf due to arrive at U.S. dealers in four or five months, next year is shaping up to be a very interesting test of what buyers want in battery-electric cars.
This is how climate change will shift the world’s cities
Up to a dozen cities will heat up so much, their summers will have no analog currently on Earth.
Oil and chemical spills from Hurricane Harvey big, but dwarfed by Katrina
More than 22,000 barrels of oil, refined fuels and chemicals spilled at sites across Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, along with millions of cubic feet of natural gas and hundreds of tons of other toxic substances,
Here’s how North Korea may get through a total oil ban
As the U.S. and its allies look to impose even stricter measures against North Korea, leader Kim Jong Un could find inspiration from oppressive regimes of yesteryear in Nazi Germany and Apartheid-era South Africa.
Tribal clashes, political void threaten oil installations in Iraq’s south
Worsening clashes among tribes and a political void is threatening security at oil installations in Iraq’s main southern oil producing region, officials and security sources said.
As Florida fuel grew scarce, GasBuddy app change filled the gap
The goal: Re-engineer their mobile app in a single night to help drivers escaping the storm identify which stations had run out of fuel, or had lost their electricity.
Tesla intentionally makes some of its cars worse, and it’s good for everybody
Sometimes, companies do figure out a way to charge different prices to wealthier and poorer consumers for virtually the same product—economists call this “price discrimination.”
IEA sees strongest global oil-demand growth in two years
Global oil demand will climb this year by the most since 2015, the International Energy Agency said, amid stronger-than-expected consumption in Europe and the U.S.
Harvey toppled storage tanks in the oil patch, spilled nearly 2,000 barrels
Soon after Hurricane Harvey reached Texas, several huge steel tanks owned by one oil company sprung free from their piping and toppled over, tearing flowlines and spewing hundreds of barrels of oil and waste water some 100 miles west of Houston.
