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A seven year old electric sedan once risked a repair bill bigger than the car, but today’s popular electric models now show battery swaps starting near 4,000 dollars

Out of warranty EV battery replacement costs now span $4,000 to $50,000 by model, as cheaper cell chemistry reshapes the used ...
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A Wisconsin coal plant last produced power eight years ago, and residents will keep paying its bill until 2039, adding up to nearly a billion dollars statewide

Wisconsin utility customers owe close to $1 billion for shuttered coal plants, with payments on one closed plant stretching ...
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Samsung reportedly shifts automotive chip engineers to AI work

Reports say Samsung is moving automotive chip engineers to AI processor work, raising questions about its Exynos Auto lineup ...
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Google opens disaster forecasting code as GitHub repositories to developers

Google details its open source disaster forecasting code, including WeatherNext and a flood model, in a new crisis resilience ...
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A Michigan plant just built its first full lithium iron phosphate battery cells this year, and it became the first in the country making this cheaper chemistry for everyday ...

A Michigan factory just finished its first run of lithium iron phosphate cells, becoming the first US plant making the cheaper chemistry for mainstream EVs.
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A full-size pickup now carries an EPA sticker of 493 miles on a single charge, and it outranks every other electric truck sold in America today

The Chevrolet Silverado EV Max Range now holds the longest EPA range of any electric pickup, beating Rivian and GMC Sierra EV ratings.
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An out of warranty iPhone battery swap hit $129 this fall, and that same 80 percent health line also shrinks what trade in programs pay later

Apple's new $129 out of warranty battery fee and the same 80 percent health rule used by trade in programs quietly squeeze iPhone owners twice.
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A coffee machine chat eats nearly 2 hours of the average office worker’s day, and new accounting puts the national price tag at $1.5 trillion a year

Hallway chitchat eats almost two hours of the average US workday, and new figures put its cost to employers at $1.5 trillion a year.
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A geothermal loop under a new home promises a $10-to-$40 monthly lease instead of a $40,000 bill, but selling that house still means disclosing a long-term lease cont…

Geothermal leasing cuts upfront cost to about $20 a month, but the fine print leaves future home sellers transferring a ...
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A hands-free highway system leans on 220,000 digital map tiles instead of one giant file, and a Michigan automaker pushes fresher road data three times more often

GM has rebuilt how Super Cruise gets its road maps, splitting one giant file into 220,000 tiles for faster, more frequent ...
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A broadband satellite fleet sat near 400 craft against a deadline requiring 1,618, and a federal regulator let the shortfall slide while stripping its spectrum priority against ...

Amazon's Leo constellation missed its FCC satellite deadline by over 1,200 craft, and the waiver fix quietly tilts spectrum ...
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A satellite broadband fleet reached just 396 spacecraft by its own July deadline, far short of the 1,616 required, and a federal regulator let it keep flying with weaker ...

Amazon Leo missed its FCC satellite deployment deadline badly, and the agency's penalty reshapes the race against Starlink ...