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Postal worker shot to death while delivering mail in Milwaukee
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A mail carrier was shot to death Friday evening in Milwaukee, police said.
Police said the 44-year-old man had worked for the US Postal Service for 18 years. They did not release his name.
“The Milwaukee Police Department sends our sincere condolences to the victim’s family and to the USPS for the loss of their member,” the department said in a statement.
Investigators did not provide any information about suspects or motive.
The US Postal Inspection Service is leading the investigation.
“The safety and security of Postal employees is a top priority,” the agency said in a statement.
“The shooting death of a Milwaukee postal worker is alarming. My thoughts are with the victim’s family and colleagues. The postal worker in this homicide was a public servant, which makes this crime even more disturbing,” Mayor Cavalier Johnson said in a statement.
Scientists tricked mosquitoes into delivering vaccines to humans
Scientists have managed to turn one of the deadliest insects into a vaccine delivery system. According to new reports from NPR, a clinical trial for a system meant to use mosquitoes to deliver vaccines has been underway in the United Kingdom. The findings of the trial have been published in Science Translational Medicine.
According to the paper, scientists were able to genetically modify parasites to deliver malaria vaccines through mosquito bites. It’s an intriguing proposition to use mosquitos to deliver vaccines. It sounds horrific on paper and even more horrific when you see the photos featured in a report on the trial from NPR.
Those photos can be seen in the original report and show the results of trial participants being bitten hundreds of times. To get the desired effect of the mosquitos delivering the vaccine, scientists loaded them with genetically modified parasites known as Plasmodium falciparum. In the past, scientists have tried to do something similar. However, this is the first time CRISPR has been used to accomplish it.
The result is basically 1,000 small flying syringes, a researcher told NPR. And based on the photos featured in that same report, it does look like that, as one image shows a participant’s arm wholly covered in welts from the mosquito bites they suffered. The biggest problem with using mosquitos to deliver vaccines for malaria, though, is the effectiveness.
According to the study’s results, 14 of 26 participants who were exposed to malaria contracted the illness. That means the mosquito vaccine delivery system is only around 50 percent effective. But, that doesn’t mean this was a failure — it just means that some improvements need to be made. It’s also important to realize that the scientists don’t intend to release swarms of genetically modified mosquitos, either.
Instead, they want to use the mosquitos to deliver vaccines in a more controlled fashion. The researchers told NPR that releasing a massive number of these mosquitos is an intriguing proposition. But, doing so would raise very deep questions about medical consent and bioethics as they couldn’t control who was inoculated and exposed.
Hubble Still Delivering As James Webb Telescope Snaps Early Universe Images
- Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has made revolutionary achievements in astronomy.
- The new James Webb Space Telescope is popular, but Hubble has skills, like capturing visible and ultraviolet light, that Webb doesn’t.
- The two telescopes will team up to study the cosmos in even greater detail.
For three decades, the Hubble Space Telescope has delivered breathtaking cosmic views.
As the world raves about NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, aging Hubble continues to be an astronomical workhorse, providing important observations of the universe, while Webb soaks up the spotlight.
But as a pair, the telescopes are even more powerful than they are alone. Together, the space-based telescopes will give astronomers a more complete view and understanding of galaxies, stars, and planets than ever before.
“The Webb Space Telescope is good news for astronomy, and good news for the Hubble Space Telescope as well, since Webb and Hubble enhance and complement each other’s unique capabilities,” Jennifer Wiseman, senior project scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, told Insider.
“Hubble’s science return is expected to be strong, and even enhanced throughout this decade as Webb and Hubble unveil the universe together.”
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Since Galileo Galilei constructed his telescope in 1609, astronomers have turned these tools to the sky. Astronomers developed these instruments significantly over time, allowing them to peer even deeper into the universe.
But their observations were constrained by Earth’s atmosphere, which absorbs light before it reaches ground-based telescopes. Enter space-based telescopes. By sitting high above the distortion of Earth’s atmosphere and away from light-polluted cities, observatories like Hubble provide, as NASA puts it, “an unobstructed view of the universe.”
Hubble launched on the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. Though it was originally scheduled for only 15 years of service, it still zips through space about 340 miles above Earth’s surface, circling the planet every 97 minutes.
“Hubble is in good technical condition, even 32 years after its launch, with a strong suite of science instruments on board,” Wiseman said.
NASA, Jeff Hester, and Paul Scowen (Arizona State University)
Over the years, Hubble’s images have played a significant part in our understanding of the universe. It provided evidence of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies and measurement of the expansion rate of the universe. Hubble also helped discover and characterize the mysterious dark energy causing that expansion by pulling galaxies apart. Among its most iconic achievements is its Pillars of Creation image, taken in 1995, which shows newly formed stars glowing in the Eagle Nebula.
And Hubble’s still taking stunning pictures, even after Webb began delivering images from its scientific observations in July. Recently, Hubble snapped an image of star-studded NGC 6540, a globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius.
ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Cohen
Both Webb and Hubble are space-based telescopes, but they differ in many ways. Hubble sees ultraviolet light, visible light, and a small slice of infrared, while Webb will primarily look at the universe in infrared.
Webb — which is 100 times more powerful than Hubble — will be able to peer at objects whose light was emitted more than 13.5 billion years ago, which Hubble can’t see. This is because this light has been shifted into the infrared wavelengths that Webb is specifically designed to detect.
But because Webb has been designed this way, it will also miss celestial objects in the visible and ultraviolet light that Hubble can see.
“In fact, Hubble is the only major class observatory that can access UV wavelengths,” Wiseman said.
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While Webb has been referred to as Hubble’s successor, the two space-based observatories will be teaming up to unveil the universe together.
Wiseman points to how they’ll provide insights into how stars are born within the clouds of cosmic dust and scattered throughout most galaxies. “Hubble, for example, can detect and analyze in detail the hot blue and UV light blazing from star-forming nebulae in nearby galaxies,” Wiseman said, adding, “That can be compared to the vigor of star formation in the early universe as detected with Webb.”
The two space-based telescopes will also combine their gazes to peer at the atmospheres of other worlds, looking for signs they might harbor life.
Astronomers typically look for the ingredients that sustain earthly life — liquid water, a continuous source of energy, carbon, and other elements — when hunting for life-supporting planets. In 2001, Hubble made the first direct measurement of an exoplanet’s atmosphere.
“In our own galaxy, the understanding of planets within and beyond our own solar system will be greatly enhanced with the Webb and Hubble combo,” Wiseman said, adding, “Signatures of water, methane, and other atmospheric constituents will be identified using the combined spectroscopic capabilities of Webb and Hubble.”
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And though Webb may be seen as the shiny new toy in astronomy, Hubble’s unique capabilities in capturing visible and ultraviolet light still make it a sought-after tool for understanding the cosmos. “Hubble is actually at its peak scientific performance now,” Wiseman said. That’s thanks to a team of NASA technical experts on the ground who monitor and quickly address any technical challenges that arise, she added.
“The number of proposals from scientists around the world who want to use Hubble has risen to over 1,000 per year, with only the top fraction of these selected for actual observations,” Wiseman said, adding, “Many of these complement proposed Webb observations.”
SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Docks With ISS Delivering Science Benefiting Humans
The pressurized capsule of the SpaceX Cargo Dragon resupply ship with its nose cone open is pictured as the vehicle departs the International Space Station on January 23, 2022. Credit: NASA
While the International Space Station (ISS) was traveling in orbit more than 267 miles over the South Atlantic Ocean, the
The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship approaches the space station during an orbital sunrise above the Pacific Ocean. Credit: NASA TV
Among the science experiments Dragon is delivering to the space station are:
Dust from northwest Africa blows over the Canary Islands in this image captured by the NOAA-20 satellite on January 14. An upcoming NASA mission, the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT), will help scientists better understand the role of airborne dust in heating and cooling the atmosphere. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
Mapping Earth’s dust
Developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) employs NASA imaging spectroscopy technology to measure the mineral composition of dust in Earth’s arid regions. Mineral dust blown into the air can travel significant distances and affect Earth’s climate, weather, vegetation, and more. For instance, an area may be warmed by dust made of dark minerals that absorb sunlight, whereas a region might be cooled by dust made of light-colored minerals. Air quality, surface conditions including the speed at which snow melts, and ocean phytoplankton health are all impacted by blowing dust. For the duration of a year, the investigation will collect images to generate maps of the mineral composition in the dust-producing regions on Earth. Such mapping could advance our understanding of how mineral dust affects human populations now and in the future.
Pre-flight preparation of tissue chips for the Immunosenescence investigation, which studies the effects of microgravity on immune function to determine the mechanisms behind immune system aging. Credit: Sonja Schrepfer, University of California San Francisco
Speedier immune system aging
Immunosenescence is the changes in the immune system due to aging. Microgravity causes changes in human immune cells that resemble immunosenescence, but they happen much faster than the actual process of aging on Earth. Sponsored by ISS National Lab, the Immunosenescence investigation, uses tissue chips to study how microgravity affects immune function during flight and whether immune cells recover post-flight. Tissue chips are small devices that contain human cells in a 3D structure, that allow researchers to test how those cells respond to stresses, drugs, and genetic changes.
“Immune aging impacts tissue stem cells and their ability to repair tissues and organs,” says principal investigator Sonja Schrepfer, professor of surgery at University of California San Francisco (UCSF). “Our studies aim to understand critical pathways to prevent and to reverse aging of immune cells.”
“Spaceflight conditions enable the study of immune aging that would not be feasible in the lab,” says co-investigator Tobias Deuse, professor of surgery at UCSF. This work could support development of treatments for immune system aging on Earth. The investigation also could support development of methods to protect astronauts during future long-duration spaceflight.
The 25th SpaceX cargo resupply services mission (SpaceX CRS-25) carrying scientific research and technology demonstrations to the International Space Station launched on July 14 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Experiments aboard the Dragon capsule include studies of the immune system, wound healing, soil communities, and cell-free biomarkers, along with mapping the composition of Earth’s dust and testing an alternative to concrete. Credit: NASA
Small satellites, big science
Five CubeSats lauched on this mission sponsored by NASA’s Launch Services Program, including BeaverCube, which launched to the space station for deployment into low-Earth orbit. Multiple cameras are employed by the small satellite including one that takes color images of Earth’s oceans and two that collect thermal images of cloud tops and the ocean surface. Cloud top and ocean surface temperatures help researchers understand Earth’s climate and weather systems. The collected data also help scientists improve their understanding of the ocean’s concentration of phytoplankton, an important factor in the generation of atmospheric oxygen.
“Most Earth observation missions primarily image over land, focusing on populated areas and targets of interest. BeaverCube will focus on imaging oceans and coastal regions, combining thermal images with visible images to help us better understand ocean fronts,” says principal investigator Kerri Cahoy, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (
Preparation of sample tubes for DynaMoS, which examines how microgravity affects metabolic interactions in communities of soil microbes. Each tube contains chitin and sterile soil inoculated with a community of microbes. Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Soil in space
Complex communities of microorganisms carry out key functions in soil on Earth, including supporting plant growth and cycling of carbon and other nutrients. DynaMoS, an investigation sponsored by NASA’s Division of Biological and Physical Sciences (BPS), examines how microgravity affects metabolic interactions in communities of soil microbes. This research focuses on microbe communities that decompose chitin, a natural carbon polymer on Earth.
“Soil microorganisms carry out beneficial functions that are essential for life on our planet,” says principal investigator Janet K. Jansson, chief scientist and laboratory fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. “To harness these beneficial activities for future space missions, we need to understand more about how conditions in space, like microgravity and radiation, influence these microbes and the beneficial functions that they provide. Perhaps in the future, we will use beneficial soil microbes to enhance growth of crops on the lunar surface.”
Improved understanding of the function of soil microorganism communities also could reveal ways to optimize these communities to support agricultural production on Earth.
Selin Kocalar, the student who designed the experiment on which Genes in Space-9 is based, prepares her samples for launch. Credit: Genes in Space
Genes, no cells
Cell-free technology is a platform for producing protein without specialized equipment of living cells that need to be cultured. Genes in Space-9, sponsored by the ISS National Lab, demonstrates cell-free production of protein in microgravity and evaluates two cell-free biosensors that can detect specific target molecules. This technology could provide a simple, portable, and low-cost tool for medical diagnostics, on-demand production of medicine and vaccines, and environmental monitoring on future space missions.
“Biosensors are a class of synthetic biology tools with immense potential for spaceflight applications in contaminant detection, environmental monitoring, and point-of-care diagnostics,” said Selin Kocalar, student winner of Genes in Space 2021. “This investigation seeks to validate their use aboard the space station. If it is successful, Genes in Space-9 will lay the foundation for downstream applications of biosensors for space exploration and resource-limited settings on Earth.”
Genes in Space, an annual research competition, challenges students in grades 7 through 12 to design
Flight hardware for the Biopolymer Research for In-Situ Capabilities, an investigation of how microgravity affects the process of creating a concrete alternative made with an organic material and on-site materials such as lunar or Martian dust. Each module makes two bricks, for a total of six bricks made in space. Credit: James Wall
Better concrete
Biopolymer Research for In-Situ Capabilities looks at how microgravity affects the process of creating a concrete alternative made with an organic material and on-site materials such as lunar or Martian dust, known as a biopolymer soil composite (BPC). Using resources available where construction takes place makes it possible to increase the mass of the construction material and, therefore, the amount of shielding.
“Astronauts on the Moon and
BPCs also could offer an environmentally friendly concrete alternative for making structures on Earth. In 2018, concrete production represented 8% of global carbon emissions. BPC material has zero carbon emissions and can be made from local, readily available resources, which also simplifies supply chains. This experiment is a part of NASA’s Student Payload Opportunity with Citizen Science (SPOCS) program, which provides students enrolled in institutions of higher learning the opportunity to design and build an experiment to fly to and return from the International Space Station.
These are just a few of the hundreds of investigations currently being conducted aboard the orbiting laboratory in the areas of biology and biotechnology, physical sciences, and Earth and space science. Advances in these areas will help keep astronauts healthy during long-duration space travel and demonstrate technologies for future human and robotic exploration beyond low-Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars through NASA’s Artemis program.
Afghanistan Earthquake Updates: Attention Turns to Delivering Aid
In the village of Azor Kalai in Geyan District, partially destroyed mud-brick homes were scattered across the hillside — their walls collapsed and ceilings broken into pieces. Among them were the white tarps of makeshift tents that most surviving residents had constructed as temporary shelter.
Even before the devastating earthquake, most families in the village survived day to day, making just enough to feed their families by gathering and selling fruit — like apricots, apples and pine nuts — from nearby forests, or by finding daily wage labor in a nearby bazaar, residents say. Many do not make more than 5,000 afghanis — or $55 — a month.
Early Thursday evening, sheep milled around the tents while women sorted through the few items their families managed to salvage from the rubble.
Padshah Gul, 30, a laborer, stood outside what remained of his home in the brisk night air. Where two large rooms once stood was now a pile of rubble and a makeshift tent with blankets and cushions that other relatives brought for his family after the earthquake.
The family’s few belongings — pots, kettles, utensils — were still buried under the rubble, he said. Mr. Gul buried his face in his hand thinking about having to find the money to rebuild his home
“We have to stay here, winter or spring,” he said, gesturing to the makeshift tent.
Still, he said he felt lucky to be alive.
When the earthquake struck, Mr. Gul and his brother were sleeping outside their shared family home in the cool night air. Suddenly he heard a loud, low rumble from the mountains nearby as boulders began crashing down them, he said.
Within minutes, the ground beneath him began to shake and he could hear the walls of the house where his relatives were sleeping collapse.
“It was like a bomb exploding,” he said.
For a terrifying 15 minutes, the earthquake and aftershocks rocked the village around him. When the ground finally stood still, he and his brother rushed into what remained of their shared home. Amid the dust, he could make out the lifeless faces of his cousin and his sister-in-law who had both been killed.
He also saw limbs protruding from the rubble and heard the voices of his relatives shouting for help, he said. Among them was a high-pitched scream from his 12-year-old niece.
“We didn’t expect they would survive,” he said, but he and his brother started digging — for more than eight hours. By the end they had rescued at least a dozen other family members alive, including his niece.
In the center of the village, aid organizations and workers with the Taliban government’s Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development set up a makeshift aid distribution site. As dusk settled, crowds of men helped offload bags of flour, rice and blankets from the backs of dust-covered trucks into bright blue tents, readying the items for distribution.
Many trucks had traveled more than 24 hours from Kabul, the Afghan capital, teetering slowly along the precarious roads into the far-flung district. Throngs of armed Taliban security forces flanked the site.
Ali Mohammad, 40, arrived at the site on his motorcycle, hoping to register his name with the aid groups and get support to rebuild his home, which had been destroyed.
Three of his cousins were killed as the house came crashing down, he said. His surviving 16 family members were now living in a makeshift tent.
“I am too sad for us all. We either have to wait for aid to rebuild our house, or we’ll be displaced and have to leave everything that’s destroyed here,” he said.
“I think we’ll leave to continue our life,” he added, looking at the tarps and bags of flour being loaded into the distribution site. “But then we have to start again from zero.”
Young Ukrainian volunteer killed after delivering food to dog shelter
A young Ukrainian woman was shot and killed while she was on her way back from delivering food to a dog shelter just outside Kyiv.
Anastasiia Yalanskaya was one of three volunteers delivering the food to Bucha, about 18 miles outside the Ukrainian capitol. All three were killed, according to a news report.
Yalanskaya’s friends and family believe her car was deliberately targeted at close-range by Russian troops.
“I asked her to be extra cautious. That nowadays, a mistake costs extremely much,” her husband, Yevhen Yalanskyi, said. “But she was helping everyone around. I asked her to think of evacuation but she did not listen.”
Bucha has been in the crosshairs of Russian bombardment. The shelter Yalanskaya had been delivering to had gone three days without food when she make the trip.
Her final Instagram story, posted just hours before her death, shows her sitting in the back of a vehicle, smiling into the camera, beside bags of dog food.
Her car was found, riddled with bullets, not far from the house of one of the men she was volunteering with. They had delivered the dog food and had almost gotten home when they were killed.
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Yalanskaya’s body remains in a morgue in Bucha, because the fighting is so intense no one can get through, a friend told Global News.
“She was one of the best human beings I knew. She was committed to help, to help her friends and relatives and whoever needed help,” her husband said.
“She loved animals. We had a dog and a cat. She was the best partner I ever had.”
Here’s Gabe Newell Hand Delivering Signed Steam Decks in Seattle
Following rumors that Gabe Newell was out hand delivering Steam Deck’s to lucky fans, Valve posted a new video that shows the company’s co-founder hitting the streets.
We hired a new delivery guy to help with the Steam Deck launch, not sure he’s going to work out. pic.twitter.com/JgcpTIBX7u
— Steam Deck (@OnDeck) March 1, 2022
The reactions range from pleasant, to bewildered, to casually nerdy. One fan chats amiably with Newell about Final Fantasy XIV, which he recently picked up after tiring of World of Warcraft (they even talk about navigating Final Fantasy XIV’s famously full queues).
The video was released following reports on Reddit that Newell was out and about with a camera crew. The original story continues below.
Valve boss Gabe Newell is apparently hand delivering Steam Decks around the Seattle area, where the developer is based.
Reddit users who preordered the tech have claimed that Newell appeared at their door with a signed Steam Deck, and was even giving them away for free. User bitfiddler0 posted a photo of the case with Newell’s signature and the Steam Deck itself, adding that it was free and the highest specs version.
A camera crew was also allegedly accompanying Newell, meaning the deliveries could be part of a promotional stunt for the Steam Deck’s launch.
Gabe Newell is hand delivering some Steam Deck orders in Seattle with camera crew (along with autographed Steam Deck case) https://t.co/vvh6J7Xbl9 pic.twitter.com/GzqMwL5oRQ
— Wario64 (@Wario64) February 27, 2022
In a separate post, user SeattleRainPidgeons said he saw Newell delivering a Steam Deck to his neighbour, and when he and his flatmates shouted over to Gabe, he handed them one too.
They said in the post: “After delivering my neighbour’s Deck we yelled ‘Hi Gabe’, at which point he asked how many were living in the house, then he went back to his van and grabbed us each a Deck.”
IGN can’t currently verify that this information is correct but photos posted to Reddit do appear to show Newell delivering the machines. IGN has reached out to Gabe Newell and Valve for comment.
In our review in progress, IGN said “the Steam Deck is a well-built piece of hardware that feels good to hold and play on,” but “on the eve of its official launch, it isn’t the smooth user experience” we had hoped for.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally remembers to tweet @thelastdinsdale.
Amazon is Delivering Copies of Gran Turismo 7 a Week Early – GTPlanet
Some incredibly lucky gamers in the USA are reporting that Amazon is already shipping out copies of Gran Turismo 7, and in more than one case a player has already received their copy.
Officially, Gran Turismo 7 is due to launch on Friday, March 4, with digital edition buyers currently able to “pre-load” — download all of the game data ahead of schedule — before the game unlocks at 0001 UTC on March 4.
In principle then, they should get the jump on players who opt for the physical versions of the game, who’ll have to wait for their game store to open or a postal delivery before popping the disc (or discs, for the PS4 version) in to install the game.
However it looks as if Amazon has massively jumped the gun. One GTPlanet member in Nevada already reported that their Amazon order, for a 25th Anniversary Edition, was showing as out for delivery for Saturday February 26, but other players elsewhere are showing physical copies of the launch edition already in their hands as early as Friday evening.
It’s not the first time a Gran Turismo game has landed before its official launch date, with Gran Turismo 6 also appearing a week ahead of launch at some game stores in the Middle East. However it’s unprecedented for a major international retailer to send copies of a GT game out this far ahead of launch in a major market.
If you want to try your luck, you can order a copy of GT7 from Amazon here via our affiliate link.
Of course the official embargo for reviews of Gran Turismo 7 is still five days away, with outlets not permitted to reveal any gameplay footage, images, or impressions until 1101 UTC on Wednesday March 2. Gamers themselves are not bound by this, so it’s likely you’ll see details of the game spreading like wildfire through over the next few days.
GTPlanet will be livestreaming the first few hours of GT7 from 1101 UTC on Thursday March 3, ahead of the official launch 13 hours later.
GM Starts Delivering Its Luxury Electric Hummer EV Pickup Truck
More than a year after its unveiling, General Motors proudly announced that it was now delivering its Hummer EV Edition 1 Pickup, a 9,000-pound (4,082 kilograms) luxury electric beast with a 1,000-horsepower motor that can go from 0 to 60 mph (96 kph) in three seconds. The message: You can do your part to save the planet, if you’re rich that is.
In a press release on Friday, GM announced the beginning of “a new era” for the company, marked by the delivery of its first next-generation electric vehicles. Unfortunately, that new era is headlined by the Hummer EV Edition 1, a $110,295 car with an estimated 329 miles (529 kilometers) of range, “modular sky panels,” the ability to do a “crabwalk” and drive diagonally, and an “extract mode” to navigate over boulders and water.
Luckily, this isn’t GM’s last EV. The company, which is working towards selling only zero emission cars and trucks by 2035, has plans to release 30 new electric vehicles over the next four years. According to the release, two-thirds of those new cars will be available in North America.
“Both commercial and retail customers will benefit from the EV experience, from exhilarating acceleration to low cost of operation, versatility, and ability to customize after the sale,” GM president Mark Reuss said in a statement. “GM is ideally positioned to provide EVs for every customer in every segment, retail or commercial.”
While I do get that it makes business sense to create an electric vehicle for certain customer segments, debuting a luxury electric truck like this when the planet is in crisis is flabbergasting. We need to electrify everything, and fast, to tackle climate change. Although the all-electric Hummer EV Edition 1 is an (unnecessary) example of the change we need, its price tag will keep it out of reach for the majority, which is exactly the opposite of what is needed. (Electrek reports that less expensive versions of the Hummer EV, beginning at $80,000, will begin to hit the market over the next two years).
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The world also needs a lot of electric vehicles to make a sizeable difference in its response to the climate crisis. Those vehicles need to be accessible to all and designed with the majority of society’s needs in mind. In other words, they’re very different from the Hummer EV Edition 1.