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SKIP AHEAD What to shop on Prime Day | What to skip shopping on Prime Day | Prime Day v.s. Clothing and footwear: Anything related to fashion typically doesn’t stand out in terms of the best savings during Prime Day, says Shand. How to save the most money during Prime DayPlanning is key to saving during Prime Day. Additionally, Prime card members can earn 10% back or more on select Prime Big Deal Days deals with Amazon’s Prime Card Bonus. I’m an associate updates editor at NBC Select, where I’ve covered Amazon Prime Day for five years.

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SKIP AHEAD Methodology | How we tested Hoka walking shoes | The best Hoka walking shoes | What’s so great about Hoka sneakers? How we tested Hoka walking shoesWhile testing Hoka walking shoes, we considered the following factors:Activity: We wore each sneaker while walking varying distances and for varying periods. Arch support : There are two main categories that shoes fall into: cushioning shoes and stability shoes. Material : We tested Hoka walking shoes between July and September to see how well they regulated our feet’s temperature. The best Hoka walking shoesAll the Hoka walking shoes we tested and recommend below are available in men’s and women’s sizes, as well as standard and wide widths.

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It’s official — Amazon’s October Prime Day sale, Prime Big Deal Days, is happening on Oct. 8 and 9. Is Prime Big Deal Days different from Prime Day? Other than the timing of the sales — Prime Big Deal Days in October and Prime Day in July — the sales are not much different. How do you sign up for a Prime membership before Prime Big Deal Days 2024? In addition to numerous sales stories, I wrote NBC Select’s history of Amazon Prime Day and Prime membership guide.

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Olivia Ott / NBC NewsHow we tested Windmill and July’s air conditionersTwo of my colleagues and I tested Windmill and July’s ACs for at least five weeks in our New York City apartments. July sent me its small 6K BTU air conditioner, which I put in my bedroom. My LG air conditioner was so loud that I felt like I couldn’t hear myself think. JulyEven after over a month, I’m still shocked when I walk into my bedroom and barely notice my air conditioner. For this article, I tested July’s air conditioner for over a month, and two members of NBC Select’s staff tested Windmill’s air conditioner for over a month.

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☆ Kid Rock Threw the Party. MAGA Faithful Brought the Joy, Rage and Smirnoff Ice.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Richard Fausset | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Alan Jeanetti, a 73-year-old retired barber, was tailgating with friends before Rock the Country, a touring music festival headlined by the pro-Trump musician Kid Rock. “I have lost so many friends because I was a Trump lover,” he said. “I wouldn’t do that to them.”On this broiling July day in Anderson, S.C., however, Mr. Jeanetti had a safe space. All around him were fellow fans of former President Donald J. Trump, many with big trucks lining the green fields around the outdoor concert venue. Trump flags fluttered above R.V.s and tents, alongside American flags and a few of the Confederate variety.

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☆ The D.M.V.’s Lessons on Equality - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Tressie Mcmillan Cottom | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Don’t Tell My Friends, But… is a seriesin which we asked Times columnistswhateveryone else is wrong about. (To the credit of those department workers’ good humor, I’ve seen a photo of that sloth posted in my local D.M.V.) I hate the way people hate the D.M.V. But that does not account for why it is cool to hate the D.M.V. We should revel in the fact that there is no express lane for beautiful, rich people to renew their licenses.

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☆ Elon Musk Says Robotaxis Are Tesla’s Future. Experts Have Doubts.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Jack Ewing | Peter Eavis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In Mr. Musk’s telling, one of Tesla’s main A.I.-based businesses will be driverless taxis, or robotaxis, that can operate pretty much anywhere and in any condition. Tesla is very close to perfecting such vehicles and will easily secure regulatory approval to put them on roads, Mr. Musk said last week on a conference call to discuss the company’s second quarter results. Mr. Musk’s vision of autonomous vehicles, or A.V.s, is not limited to cars that drive themselves. He has also claimed that individuals who buy Teslas would be able to make money when they are asleep or at work by letting the company use their cars as robotaxis. The robotaxi service will, Mr. Musk has said, catapult Tesla’s stock market valuation, around $700 billion now, into the trillions of dollars.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk’s, Tesla, Musk Organizations: Wall

☆ Between Attacks on Electric Cars, Trump Says They’re ‘Incredible’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Lisa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Former President Donald J. Trump has spent years ridiculing electric vehicles, saying they don’t go far, are too expensive and are made in China. He has promised to end federal support for electric vehicles, a central feature of President Biden’s strategy to cut the carbon dioxide that is heating the planet. But in recent months, Mr. Trump has been saying some nice things about E.V.s. While he still throws some shade on electric vehicles, in the same breath he also tells crowds that he likes them. On Saturday, he went further, telling a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., “I’m constantly talking about electric vehicles but I don’t mean I’m against them.

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☆ Ford Will Make Gasoline Trucks, Not Electric Vehicles, in Ontario Plant
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Neal E. Boudette | More About Neal E. Boudette | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ford Motor said on Thursday it would retool a plant in Canada to produce large pickup trucks rather than the electric sport-utility vehicles it had previously planned to make there. The Ford plant, in Oakville, Ontario, recently stopped making the gasoline-powered Ford Edge S.U.V., and was slated to shift to new electric versions of the Ford Explorer and Lincoln Aviator, both three-row S.U.V.s. Instead, Ford will turn the factory in Oakville into a third production location for its Super Duty pickup trucks, which are among its most profitable models. Jim Farley, the chief executive of Ford, said the company’s two other Super Duty plants, in Kentucky and Ohio, were running at full capacity but couldn’t produce as many vehicles as its commercial customers wanted. Super Duty trucks are typically used to haul heavy equipment and materials by building contractors, oil and gas companies and other businesses.

Persons: General Motors, Ford, Jim Farley Organizations: Ford, General, Ford Edge, Ford Explorer, Lincoln Aviator, Duty Locations: Canada, Oakville , Ontario, Oakville, Kentucky, Ohio

☆ Biden Offers $1.7 Billion to Help Factories Build Electric Vehicles
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Jack Ewing | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The federal government will grant car and auto parts factories in eight states $1.7 billion to begin producing electric vehicles and other clean energy technology, the Biden administration announced on Thursday. Among the 11 recipients will be a Jeep factory in Belvidere, Ill., that the brand’s parent company Stellantis closed last year. The money will allow the plant to reopen and produce electric vehicles, officials said, restoring almost 1,450 jobs. Other beneficiaries include a factory in Georgia that plans to make Blue Bird electric school buses, a General Motors factory in Michigan that will shift production from gasoline to electric vehicles, and a Harley-Davidson factory in Pennsylvania that will increase production of electric motorcycles. The funding helps to address fears that electric vehicles will endanger jobs at factories that make gasoline-powered vehicles or parts for internal combustion engines as the industry shifts to E.V.s.

Persons: Biden, Stellantis, Harley, Davidson Organizations: General Motors Locations: Belvidere , Ill, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania

☆ How Tesla Shareholders Upheld Elon Musk’s Sky-High Pay
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Lily Boyce | Jason Karaian | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

How Tesla Shareholders Upheld Elon Musk’s Sky-High PayTesla shareholders on Thursday voted to reaffirm a roughly $48 billion compensation package for Elon Musk, which was originally approved in 2018 and was nullified by a judge early this year. Mr. Musk’s pay package helped him become one of the richest people in the world. Thursday’s vote arose from a court case in Delaware, where the company is incorporated, that voided Mr. Musk’s pay package. California Public Employees’ Retirement System, or CalPERS, the largest pension fund in the United States, also opposed the pay package. The debate about Mr. Musk’s compensation raised questions about the limits of executive compensation and the accountability of Silicon Valley billionaires whose wealth gives them vast influence.

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☆ European Union Hits E.V.s From China With Extra Tariffs Up to 38%
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Melissa Eddy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The European Union said on Wednesday that it would impose additional tariffs of up to 38 percent on electric vehicles imported from China into the bloc, in what E.U. The move, a month after President Biden quadrupled U.S. tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to 100 percent, opens another front in escalating trade tensions with China amid growing fears about a glut of Chinese green tech goods flooding global markets. The actions by the European Union and the United States also reflect the challenges that traditional automakers in Europe and the United States face from up-and-coming Chinese companies founded with a focus on electric vehicles and much lower cost bases than their rivals in the West. But unlike U.S. carmakers, several of their European counterparts are deeply entwined in the Chinese market, and their cars produced there will also be subject to the higher tariffs. They have criticized the European Union’s move to increase duties from 10 percent, fearing retaliation from China, as well as an increase in prices across the market and a drop in demand for battery-powered cars.

Persons: Biden Organizations: Union, European Union Locations: China, United States, Europe

☆ Opinion | ‘Contact. I.E.D.’
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-26 | by ( David French | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I.E.D.”When I served in Iraq, I’d hear those words on the radio, and my heart would freeze. It meant death. In the civilian world, death interrupts our lives — we drop everything to rush to the side of a dying relative or friend. In war, death interrupts nothing. The moment that contact call — which indicates a violent encounter with the enemy — comes to headquarters, you’re split in two.

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☆ Can Biden Win America’s Green Tech Trade War With China? - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( David Wallace-Wells | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

On May 14, President Biden announced a major escalation of the country’s emerging climate trade war with China, raising existing tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to 100 percent — a unilateral quadrupling. A few days earlier, responding to reports of Biden’s plans, Donald Trump outdid him, promising tariffs of 200 percent should he win the 2024 election. Five years after blasting Trump for imposing tariffs on Chinese exports, Biden raised them — on aluminum, steel, lithium batteries, solar cells and semiconductors, among other products. In 2019, Chinese E.V. Nearly 60 percent of all the world’s E.V.s are now sold in China, which is home to three of the world’s four biggest E.V.

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The restrictions build on Trump-era measures, and many are likely to appeal to voters in battleground states ahead of the election. But it’s less clear if they are enough to rebuild America’s industrial base in a global race with China to lead in the new economy. The new duties will apply to about $18 billion of annual Chinese imports, the Biden administration said. Biden is at pains to say that he’s being smarter than Trump on China. Trump imposed sweeping trade barriers and has vowed to impose more if he’s re-elected.

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☆ The Chevy Malibu Was So Uncool It Was Cool
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Jim Windolf | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

If you asked a child to draw a car, the result would probably be something that looked like the Chevrolet Malibu. For decades, this dependable midsize vehicle was a stalwart of the American road. Because that kind of thing is no longer in demand, it came as no surprise when General Motors announced on Wednesday that it would discontinue the model as it shifts its focus to sport utility vehicles and electric cars. The Malibu never had the back-alley glamour of the Chevrolet Camaro or the brute force of the Chevrolet Impala. It was the ultimate normcore-mobile, made for a time when Americans were content to drive simple, gas-powered sedans, rather than rugged S.U.V.s, high-riding pickup trucks or electric vehicles that cruise along in near silence.

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☆ Opinion | Are E.V.s Too Quiet and ‘Boring’?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “Electric Cars Are Boring,” by Ezra Dyer (Opinion guest essay, April 13):If E.V.s are boring, I guess I am OK with being bored. owner, I no longer have to stop at the gas station to fill up in all kinds of (Chicago) weather. in various types of inclement weather. I am now at the age where simpler (boring) is better. It’s because they are 1) too expensive; 2) take too long to charge; 3) don’t go far enough on a single charge.

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How the U.S. Humanitarian Pier in Gaza Will WorkA humanitarian pier the U.S. military will bring to the Gaza Strip is currently being assembled and is expected to be ready to receive initial shipments of food and other aid early next month, according to military officials. Pier At the pier, loaded aid trucks are driven to Gaza’s shore. Gaza Strip EMPTY TRUCKS return to the pier Humanitarian partners will pick up aid near the shore to take it into the Gaza Strip. Pier At the pier, loaded aid trucks are driven to Gaza’s shore. Gaza Strip EMPTY TRUCKS return to the pier Humanitarian partners will pick up aid near the shore to take it into the Gaza Strip.

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☆ Honda Commits to E.V.s With Big Investment in Canada
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Jack Ewing | More About Jack Ewing | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Honda Motor on Thursday said it would invest $11 billion to build batteries and electric cars in Ontario, a significant commitment from a company that has been slow to embrace the technology. Like Toyota and other Japanese carmakers, Honda has emphasized hybrid vehicles, in which gasoline engines are augmented by electric motors, rather than cars powered solely by batteries. The Honda Prologue, a sport-utility vehicle made in Mexico, is the company’s only fully electric vehicle on sale in the United States. “This is a very big day for the region, for the province and for the country,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at an announcement event in Alliston, where Honda manufactures the Civic sedan and CR-V S.U.V. The investment is the largest by an automaker in Canadian history, he said.

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He was a model to me of artistic labor and discipline, even if those early paintings were painfully amateurish. The painting followed me from Amherst to my first job in New York, and on to London and Delhi. IT WASN’T MY intention to start an essay about artistic beginnings with a story of artistic death. I’m especially moved by those first moments of validation by which an artist comes out to himself, as it were. It’s this, the inexorability of the correspondence between an artist and the world, that gives those first steps their magical quality.

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He was a model to me of artistic labor and discipline, even if those early paintings were painfully amateurish. IT WASN’T MY intention to start an essay about artistic beginnings with a story of artistic death. No one captured the massive cultural and economic disparities of my life in Delhi (and his in Lahore) like Toor. But quite unbeknown to me, Toor’s life in New York had opened up a new vein of material. Not everyone who sees a Michelangelo can go off and paint a Michelangelo.”THERE ARE SO many ways to begin.

☆ Electric Cars Are Boring (Tesla Cybertruck Included) - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Ezra Dyer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Over the past few years, as electric vehicle sales increased substantially and car companies announced an onslaught of new battery-powered models, it seemed that electric cars were a near-term inevitability. Hertz is selling off about a third of its electric cars and Audi is slowing its transition to E.V.s. But there’s also a more subtle issue at play, one that won’t be easily resolved: Electric cars are too boring. On the list of things wrong with the world, “electric cars are dull” isn’t in the Top 5. Driving, as we all knew it before the arrival of mass-market electric cars a little more than a decade ago, involved familiar rituals that carved out a place in our collective psyche.

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☆ Ford Slows Its Push Into Electric Vehicles
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Neal E. Boudette | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ford Motor on Thursday delayed the production of at least two new electric cars and said it would pivot to making more hybrids. Its decision was the latest sign that large automakers have been forced to rethink their strategy for electric vehicles because sales for those models are slowing. The shift by Ford and automakers like General Motors and Mercedes-Benz, which have also pushed back their electric car plans, has been prompted largely by the companies’ difficulties in making and selling enough electric cars and doing so profitably. Because they are still learning how to make the cars and their batteries at lower cost, the companies have not been able to bring out more affordable models. “That’s made it a lot tougher to sell those vehicles.”

Persons: ” Sam Abuelsamid, “ That’s Organizations: Ford, General Motors, Mercedes, Benz

☆ New Pollution Rules Aim to Lift Sales of Electric Trucks
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Coral Davenport | Jack Ewing | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Biden administration on Friday announced a regulation designed to turbocharge sales of electric or other zero-emission heavy vehicles, from school buses to cement mixers, as part of its multifront attack on global warming. Today, fewer than 2 percent of new heavy trucks sold in the United States fit that bill. The regulation would apply to more than 100 types of vehicles including tractor-trailers, ambulances, R.V.s, garbage trucks and moving vans. The rule does not mandate the sales of electric trucks or any other type of zero or low-emission truck. Options could include using technologies like hybrids or hydrogen fuel cells or sharply increasing the fuel efficiency of the conventional trucks.

Persons: Biden Organizations: Environmental Protection Agency Locations: United States

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