Supply chains will need to be established to support key components such as batteries and power systems. Also key to the effort, if the goal is to slash carbon emissions, is ensuring there is the necessary infrastructure capable of providing renewable energy for plug in vehicles. Jody Freeman, a counselor for energy and climate change in the Obama White House in 2009 and 2010, wrote earlier this month in the New York Times: “Shifting from gasoline to electricity helps to decarbonize transportation only if the electrons fuelling cars and trucks are relatively An industry wide sea change General Motors plans will see it invest $27 billion US in electric and autonomous vehicles in the next five years.

You can’t play both sides anymore Governor. Pick Country First or Trump First. 12 Politico interview reflected some of the sharpest criticisms yet of Trump post election behavior from a prominent Republican and an even more stinging rebuke than her words to a gathering of the Republican National Committee the day after the riot at the Capitol..

“I’m used to criticism. I’m used to that. Every day, I have to earn my stripes,” he said in a portion of Tuesday’s interview that aired on “CBS This Morning” on Wednesday. GLADSTONE, Mo. (AP) A Missouri man is charged with second degree murder after a 2 year old boy shot himself to death. Clay County prosecutors say 30 year old Christopher Ray Ellis of Gladstone was indicted by a county grand jury on second degree murder and first degree child endangerment charges.

My grandma told me today she misses having me over for sumo now that the latest tournament is over, and I miss it, too. In a world where everything seems so unstable and chaotic, there’s something very reassuring in my grandma’s company in her apartment that never changes and in the sport that has carried on the same for centuries. She cheers for (or bemoans, really) the ozeki Asanoyama, and I silently place my faith in Terunofuji.

The National Education Union (NEU) is including pay rises in “key demands” and bosses have said that any reduction in class sizes should be “long term” not just for social distancing. Union leaders have congratulated their members for closing down schools, claiming that it was their threats to not turn up to class, as opposed to the scientific data, which led to Boris Johnson ordering that children should stay at home last month. NEU bosses described the pandemic as a “turning point” in the power of teachers over the Government, but MPs say the union is “playing politics” and “hijacking the pandemic”.