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tesla 4680 battery cells and structural pack Only 74.1 kWhs? Is this the 279-mile EPA range version? Plus other design changes. Some significant design changes have been made to the Tesla structural pack since we analyzed the cutaway presented at the Giga Berlin factory tour. We’ve also discovered some interesting new details about the pack based on the Cyber Rodeo cutaway. In addition, we referenced a video of the pack production process and displays that were presented at Giga Texas. Summary Here’s the pack cutaway we analyzed at the Giga Berlin factory tour: Here’s the pack cutaway at the Texas...

A new InsiderAdvantage/FOX 29 Philadelphia poll shows Dr. Mehmet Oz in the lead by a narrow margin in a tight race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. The poll, which surveyed 750 likely GOP Primary voters, shows just how tight the race is between the top three candidates. Oz leads the race followed closely by Kathy Barnette, who moved into second place after the debate on April 25, according to InsiderAdvantage. The poll puts Oz at 22.5% and Barnette at 20.9%, followed by Dave McCormick at 18.5%. Candidates Jeff Bartos and Carla Sands are nearly tied at 4.9% and...

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After a draft Supreme court opinion overturning Roe v Wade was leaked to the press, online searches for vasectomies increased dramaticallyAfter a draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v Wade was leaked to the public, online searches for vasectomies surged. Daily searches for vasectomies increased 99% since the draft opinion was published early last week, according to an analysis of Google Trends and search volumes by Innerbody Research, a home health product research company. In the opinion published by Politico, which the Court later confirmed to be authentic, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote that “Roe...

There was seemingly a notable absence from Russia's 'Victory Day' parade in Moscow on Monday—Valery Gerasimov, chief of general staff of the Russian military, was nowhere to be seen. -snip- Multiple media reports said that Gerasimov was wounded and forced to evacuate from a war zone in Izyum in Ukraine's Kharkiv region when visiting the front lines of the eastern Donbas region at the end of April. However, neither Russian nor U.S. officials have confirmed these reports. However, the BBC reported and several military experts on Twitter noted that Gerasimov was not present during the parade in Moscow. In an...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was excoriated by critics late Monday following a tweet she posted that included a "call to arms" over the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court. "To my friends in the LGBTQ+ community – the Supreme Court is coming for us next. This moment has to be a call to arms," the Democrat lesbian mayor tweeted. "We will not surrender our rights without a fight—a fight to victory!" she added in a separate tweet. *** Critics quickly took to social media to blast Lightfoot, with some accusing her of calling for violence, and...

Biden talks about his successes and how he will "give workers raises" by "making corporations pay their fair share." My transcription. (golux.) "...When you look at the economy today it's clear we've made enormous strides. (...) As I travel across the country today I can see, it's clear, we've gone from being on the mend to on the move. (...) The first cause of inflation is the pandemic. (...) The second cause is Mr. Putin's war in Ukraine. (...) Putin's war has raised food prices. (...) Because of the actions we've taken we're in the strongest position to face this...

Jon sits down with Dr. Mark Halowchak to talk about the life and legacy of Thomas Jefferson.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday warned that eliminating abortion rights would damage the U.S. economy and 'set women back decades.' 'I believe that eliminating the right of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set women back decades,' she said at a Senate Banking Committee hearing. Yellen was asked about the draft Supreme Court opinion that indicated justices support overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortion, and the effect such a decision would have on the economy. 'It enabled many women...

FULL TITLE: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is slammed for 'inciting an insurrection' by warning LGBTQ community 'to fight' because SCOTUS 'will target them next' after Roe v Wade abortion ban leak - as DOJ is criticized for failing to stop protests outside judges' homes Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot faced a wave of criticism after tweeting a 'call to arms' for the LGBTQ community who she claimed the Supreme Court would target next if they overturn Roe V. Wade. On Monday night, Lightfoot - Chicago's first openly gay, black female mayor - warned the LGBTQ community that an end to Roe...

A California District Attorney declined to file charges against legendary boxer Mike Tyson after he was caught on video allegedly punching a passenger on a flight out of San Francisco. "We now deem the case closed," DA Steve Wagstaffe said Tuesday. [cut] "Unfortunately, Mr. Tyson had an incident on a flight with an aggressive passenger who began harassing him and threw a water bottle at him while he was in his seat," a representative for Tyson told Fox Business in a statement at the time. "After a thorough investigation, no charges will be filed against Mr. Tyson for the incident...

VIDEO AT LINK....................... V8 With Lawn Mower Carburetor The original Ford Maverick wasn't a small pickup truck. It also didn't have a hybrid four-cylinder engine, but that's not stopping this V8-powered 1974 Maverick sedan from getting a whopping 41 mpg from its 5.0-liter engine. That's considerably better than the brand-new hybrid version Ford offers today, which gets an EPA-combined rating of 37 mpg. But as you can imagine, there's more to this story than just a small carb on a big engine. The experiment comes from ThunderHead289 on YouTube, and it's actually well-thought-out. It starts by finding the smallest lawn...

Many Americans considered a sudden loss of smell and tase a telltale sign of a positive COVID-19 infection, but new research indicates that may no longer be the case. As the coronavirus mutates into new variants, the likelihood that an infected person loses their sense of smell and taste seems to decrease. Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) analyzed a national database of more than 3.5 million cases of positive COVID-19 infections and published their results in the journal Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery. It showed that compared to rates of smell and taste loss during the early phase of the...

We've all been there before; too much junk to move and not enough help from friends and family. What do you do? Whatever it takes, supposedly, including shoving your SUV into the back of a U-Haul moving truck even if it doesn't fully fit. Surprisingly, this is the tale of a Washington driver—not Florida—who decided to transport what looks to be a '90s Honda Passport in the back of the rental box truck. They didn't make it to their destination, however, as a Washington State Patrol spotted the make-shift transporter and promptly pulled it over. A state trooper stopped the...

A group of furious Ohio parents want a high school teacher fired after their children were given a historical book to read, which they claim is filled with 'sex and wickedness'. The 10th grade students at Milford High School, in Milford, were required to read passages of 'In The Time of Butterflies' by Julia Alvarez aloud in class, according to one parent. The book is a fictional account of the Dominican Republic's Trujillo dictatorship in the 1960s, and follows the Mirabel sisters. The novel was adapted into a film in 2001, and was rated PG-13. In a Facebook post, irate...

The iPod helped to change the music industry after it was announced in 2001. Now the last of the company's portable music players is coming to an end. Apple's iPod Touch lineup was always in the shadow of the iPhone. Just as Apple's preparing to enter the iPhone's 15th year since release, the iPod Touch, its less popular cousin, is taking its final bow. Apple announced Tuesday that the iPhone-iPod hybrid device released in 2007 will no longer be available after all its supplies run out. The move marks an end not just for the handheld device but also an...

President Joe Biden on Tuesday mistakenly said Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) was from Wisconsin in a speech about inflation. “They’ve made their intentions perfectly clear,” he said, reading from his teleprompter at the White House. “Senator Rick Scott of Wisconsin, a member of the Senate Republican leadership, laid it out in a plan as the ultra MAGA agenda.”

Elon Musk said Tuesday he would reverse Twitter’s ban on former President Donald Trump if his acquisition goes through. “Permanent bans should be extremely rare and really reserved for accounts that are bots, or scam, spam accounts… I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump,” Musk said at FT Live’s Future of the Car conference. “I think that was a mistake, because it alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice.”

Artist's impression of the catastrophe. (Katrina Kenny © 2022, author provided) Some 252 million years ago the world was going through a tumultuous period of rapid global warming. To understand what caused it, scientists have looked to one particular event in which a volcanic eruption in what is now Siberia spewed huge volumes of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. However, there is evidence the climate was already changing before this. Sea surface temperatures had increased by more than 6-8 ℃ in the hundreds of thousands of years leading up to the Siberian outpouring. Temperatures increased again after it, so much...

Vicky White died Monday night at a hospital. Casey White is in custody.Alabama murder suspect Casey White has been interviewed extensively since he was apprehended on Monday, ending an 11-day, multistate manhunt, and is cooperating with the investigation, authorities said. Escaped inmate Casey White had spent about one week in Evansville, Indiana, where he was taken into custody, Vanderburgh County Sheriff Dave Wedding said at a news conference Tuesday. Casey White, 38, and his accomplice, Lauderdale County Assistant Director of Corrections Vicky White, 56, stopped in Evansville to figure out their next place to travel, the sheriff said. The sheriff...