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Author: BY IVAN PENN, CLIFFORD KRAUSS AND TAMIR KALIFA - Publish Date: July 11, 2021 at 11:47PM The president and energy companies want new transmission lines to carry electricity from large solar and wind farms. Some environmentalists and homeowners are pushing for smaller, more local systems.

Author: BY NIRAJ CHOKSHI - Publish Date: September 23, 2020 at 07:34AM Tesla said it was working on advances that would lower the cost of batteries and increase their capacity to store energy.

Author: BY RICK GLADSTONE - Publish Date: July 30, 2020 at 07:01AM “Children around the world are being poisoned by lead on a massive and previously unrecognized scale,” according to the study, a collaboration of UNICEF and Pure Earth, an advocacy group.

Author: BY DAVEY ALBA - Publish Date: November 2, 2019 at 08:28AM The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into why a number of Tesla vehicles have spontaneously burst into flames.

Author: BY JACK EWING - Publish Date: September 8, 2019 at 11:01AM The carmaker is updating its familiar trademark at the same time it is beginning a push to make electric vehicles affordable to the masses.

Author: BY JACK EWING - Publish Date: September 3, 2019 at 10:00AM Arnstadt’s embrace of a giant new battery plant for electric cars illustrates Europe’s ambivalence toward Chinese investment: Jobs trump geopolitics.

Author: PAUL STENQUIST - Publish Date: July 11, 2019 at 07:00AM While additional high-tech roadside charging facilities will make electric driving more practical, convenient home equipment sways many to go electric.

Author: IVAN PENN - Publish Date: June 22, 2019 at 07:00AM You’ll need to charge your vehicle more often than filling a gas tank, it takes longer, and the chargers can be scarce. Here’s how one road trip went.

Author: SARAH WITMAN - Publish Date: June 6, 2019 at 07:00AM In some cases, single-use batteries are still the better option.

Author: AMY YEE - Publish Date: May 12, 2019 at 07:00AM Companies seek solutions to the unintended consequences of rising wealth that allows for more electronics — and the e-waste that inevitably comes next

Author: Unknown Author - Publish Date: May 7, 2019 at 07:00AM Concrete and a very large 3-D printer could revolutionize home-building — and more news about design world events, products and people.

Author: BRIAN X. CHEN - Publish Date: April 3, 2019 at 07:00AM Sleek and convenient, Apple’s wireless earbuds are an engineering marvel. But they are difficult and expensive to maintain.