MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Katrina Williams wanted a safer alternative to smoking, and e-cigarettes seemed to be the answer until the day one exploded in her pocket as she drove home from a beauty salon. “It was like a firecracker,” the New Yorker said, as it seared third-degree burns in her leg, blasted through her [...]
Since the arrival of the electric car to the marketplace, the well known, oft-cited shortcomings of the vehicles have been limited driving distance and inefficient batteries that — in the extreme — present the threat of fire. Engineers at The Ohio State University may have cracked the code on both counts with development of technology [...]
SPARKS, Nev. — It’s Tesla Motors’ biggest bet yet: a massive, $5 billion factory in the Nevada desert that could nearly double the world’s production of lithium-ion batteries. Tesla officially opened its Gigafactory this week, a little more than two years after construction began. The factory is about 14 percent complete, but when it’s finished, [...]