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The automaker Nissan Motor Co. began sales of fast charging units for electric cars in the U.S., developed by the company through its regional partners of parts in preparation for launch in December of this year’s Nissan Leaf, a new zero-emission vehicle. The device may be used not only with Nissan vehicles but with other brands to.

The quick loading unit will provide a preferential price of about $ 16.400. The company plans to install standard 200-volt chargers at 2,200 Nissan dealers across the U.S. before December 2010.

Fast chargers are available for sale in 200 selected dealers, at least one quick charging unit will be available in every 40 miles distance in the country.

The team has a charger that stays in closed communication with the vehicle, including various safety equipment such as a monitor for anti-short circuit, and can be used in any climate condition.

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Back in March, we wrote about reports that Apple had gone around and pressured various record labels to stop working with Amazon on its “MP3 Daily Deal” promotion. The reports suggested that Apple had told the labels that it would not promote any releases that were featured as Amazon’s Daily Deal. As we noted at the time, this sounded like a classic “restraint of trade” situation that the government tends to frown upon, especially when performed by what might be considered the dominant player in the market. I’m not sure I believe it should be an antitrust issue, but it certainly is the kind of thing that the government gets upset about.

So it should come as little surprise at all to find out, indeed, that the Justice Department is now looking into this. Of course, it’s early, and nothing may come of it, but you would still think that Apple would be a bit more careful than blatantly telling partners not to work with a competitor. Or does Steve Jobs hope that his powers of persuasion will wow over the Feds as well?

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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

The Obama administration in a brief to the Supreme Court has backed the Vatican’s claim of immunity from lawsuits arising from cases of sexual abuse by priests in the United States.

The Supreme Court is considering an appeal by the Vatican of an appellate court ruling that lifted its immunity in the case of an alleged pedophile priest from Oregon.

In a filing on Friday, the solicitor general’s office argued that the Ninth Circuit court of appeals erred in allowing the lawsuit brought by a man who claims he was sexually abused in the 1960s by the Oregon priest.

The unnamed plaintiff, who cited the Holy See and several other parties as defendants, argued the Vatican should be held responsible for transferring the priest to Oregon and letting him serve there despite previous accusations he had abused children in Chicago and in Ireland.

Full story here.

The Chinese government today expressed his concern about the wave of suicides in the factories of Foxconn, where nine young employees have taken their own lives. Earlier this week, company officials announced the hiring of 2,000 psychiatrists to avoid precisely the wave of suicides that were taking in its delegation of China.

It seems that mental health professionals are not being very effective, or have not arrived in time. The fact is, less than a week after the eighth worker ended their life at Foxconn, a colleague of only 19, has followed them.

Apple has already started its own independent investigation into the reasons that have prompted workers from the manufacturer to take this drastic decision.

Foxconn is a branch of Taiwan’s Hon Hai industrial conglomerate that produces many components for technology multinationals such as Hewlett Packard, Dell, Motorola, Nokia, Amazon and Cisco. There were also manufactured, for example, the three next generation consoles: Wii, Nintendo, PS3 (Sony) and Xbox 360 (Microsoft), as well as the famous Apple iPhone.

“We will open all our factories to the media around the world to see working conditions”, said Terry Gou founder of the Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn.

The motives remain a mystery, or at least contradictory. About 800,000 employees work for Foxconn in China, of which 400 000 are located in Shenzhen. Workers speak out against the harsh working conditions of the Shenzhen factory (long hours, low pay, poor communication, beatings …).

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Plenty of the world’s cities are being recreated using 3D graphics for Google Maps and Google Earth. Google’s efforts combined with those of skilled and passionate volunteers have been paying off and more and more towns and cities can be explored in three dimensions from the comfort of your chair. The latest to be added to the list is Stockholm, Swe… (read more)

In the recent celebrations, marking the 30th Anniversary of the game Pacman, which Google celebrated, has almost consumed more than 4.8 million work hours. People had tuned in to play Google’s Free Pacman Game which was somewhat reported by almost all sites worldwide. According to reports, the game had cost companies, including tech giants more than $120.5 Million as people spent time playing the game rather working. The statistics has been compiled by RescueTime which is a Time Management Tool.

Google recently released the game, Pac-Man, as a playable doodle logo, which allowed users to click the insert coin button and begin gobbling ghosts. In the start the internet search giant offered the game to be online only for a week but after the popularity, Google offered to keep it alive forever at its own Web page.

Average users were found to be spending more than 36 seconds on Google’s site, where Pacman was originally hosted. 11,000 people spent 3 million seconds on Google.com on Friday which is 36 seconds more. The reason is clear that the game was made to go online and users started to stick to it.

Pac-Man consumed $120,483,800 in costs for the lost work time, where the Google user is paid $25 per hour.

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Fleet Week, a tradition of the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard and United States Marine Corps in which the active marine or military ships dock in a variety of major cities for one week.

This tradition has been on since 1984 to honor the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard and United States Marine Corps. This week is an opportunity for the public to tour and learn more about the visiting ships. Military aircraft would also take it’s part as they will fly over in honor of the ones that lost their lives for the service to the United States.

There are may things to do during fleet week like tour visiting ships, lectures, parade of ships in the harbor, watch competitions including eating contests and tug-of-war, attend the memorial day ceremony and watch the musical performances by sailors and marines.

All events on the Fleet Week are free, unless the events are held at the USS Intrepid Sea. You will have to go and buy tickets to enter the museum.

Fleet Week in New York City would start on May 26 until June 2, 2010. That means the big ships and huge number of sailors in uniform are visiting Manhattan.

Unless indicated, all events are held in Manhattan.

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When I had spoken with a couple of representatives from ITM Power a couple of weeks ago about revisiting the “green box” hydrogen home refueler and the possibility of using the same or similar refueling for the forklift market they were non-committal. This is because they had something up their sleeves and weren’t ready to reveal it yet.

Earlier this week, ITM Power announced that they had beaten out several other companies and won a design contract from The NextEnergy Centre to build a home hydrogen refueling station that “…will be suitable for the next generation of hydrogen-powered vehicles currently being developed by major automotive OEMs.”

This last point had me confused since I had thought that the “Green Box” ITM home H2 refueler that I had talked about in July 2008 had filled the bill. So, I got on the phone with ITM Power CEO Dr. Graham Cooley to clear up this confusion.

According to Cooley, the old Greenbox design didn’t meet the needs of the major automakers as it was designed to output H2 at only 75 bar. The new small scale alpha prototype, however, that is being designed to NextEnergy specifications will be able to output at both 350 bar (5,000 psi) and 700 bar (10,000 psi) satisfying the international protocols for the European Union and the United States.

Besides home refueling the new hydrogen generator, which will be able to accept both electricity from the grid (in off peak hours presumably) and the intermittent power of renewable energy such as wind or solar power, may also be headed for warehouses to be a part of the emerging hydrogen forklift and palette truck market.

But, according to Dr. Cooley, ITM Power’s main thrust going forward in refueling hydrogen cars is a two pronged approach. The first prong is the building of the ITM Power HFuel commercial refueling station that is getting ready for prime time now. And, the second approach is the development of a home hydrogen refueling station that meets international automaker standards.

This way, consumers will be able to refuel their hydrogen cars at home, take a road trip, refuel in town or another town as needed, then head back home where they will refuel overnight. Putting part of the national refueling infrastructure inside of people’s garages will cut down on the amount of large-scale commercial refueling stations that will need to be built in public area and will be consumer-friendly as well.

This is the type of win-win situation that is necessary in order to expedite the building of the hydrogen refueling infrastructure that is so badly needed within the next 5 years in order to keep up with the major automakers who say they will be rolling out commercial H2 vehicles in 2015.

Foi anunciado pela Ford o recall de 2.934 unidades da Ranger 2010, devido a um problema no freio de mão que pode causar movimento involuntário do veículo, de acordo com a NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration). A Ford não registra ainda nenhum acidente por causa desse problema.

Também segundo a agência, apenas os veículos com transmissão manual sofrem com esse defeito. em declaração oficial, a NHTSA informa o seguinte:

“É possível que o freio de mão se desconecte do atuador da roda direita traseira durante tempos frios. Isso pode ocorrer quando o freio de mão é solto se as pastilhas de freio ficarem congeladas na posição certa.

Se o cabo do freio de mão da roda direita traseira se desconectar, o pedal será pressionado e não terá o efeito completo do freio de mão. Um veículo de transmissão manual estacionado no ponto morto sem um freio de mão adequado pode gerar movimentos involuntários que podem causar acidentes”.

Via | Inside Line

Filed under: Paris Motor Show, Hatchback, Citroën, Design/Style

Attention all budding car designers: Citroën‘s DS3 Design Competition is giving you a chance to see your automotive vision in production. Well, at least the dashboard and roof of your automotive vision. Seeking designs that are daring yet professional, the contest to create a compelling look for the top and front of the DS3 is open to anyone anywhere in the world.

Should you enter, your work will be critiqued by designing eyes from GQ, Louis Vuitton and The Cartier Foundation. If you win, your work will be showcased on an actual DS3 at this year’s Paris Motor Show in October and Citroën’s C_42 show on the Champs-Elysées.

For more info, a look at the DS3 Portfolio and style advice or inspiration on the “Concept Anti-Retro,” check out the Citroën Creative Awards site. And save us an autograph at the show if you win…

[Source: Citroen Creative Awards via Car Design News]

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Magna Milan EV Concept

Battery manufacturers are all scurrying to secure for themselves, a relevant role in the impending boom in electric vehicles. Magna International Inc., is one such company; the Canadian company is actively seeking locations to produce batteries for electric vehicles.

CEO Siegfried Wolf has said that $200-$300 million has been earmarked for each of two factories; one in the U.S. and one in Europe.

Magna started a new business earlier in the year whereby they will focus exclusively on electric cars, producing battery units as well as complete vehicles. The company’s E-car business is a joint venture with Magna’s founder Frank Stronach and is part of a deal that will reduce his direct influence on Magna.

Wolf said that the decision about where to build the battery factories would come by year’s end. He said the company will begin serial car production in 2012 or 2013.

– By: Stephen Calogera

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Opel unions were upset upon learning that Germany’s state rescue fund didn’t make a recommendation on loan guarantees that it requires in order to aid in financing a restructuring plan worth 3.7 billion euros ($4.52 billion).

Last Tuesday, a steering committee of the rescue fund failed to recommend if taxpayers’ money should be used to backstop loans of about 1.3 billion euros to help Opel lower European production and labor capacity by 20%. According to Germany’s Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle, the decision on loan guarantees is expected to arrive in late May or early June. About 18 months have passed since Opel made its first request for aid but officials say that since Opel isn’t dangerously close to collapsing, there actually is no immediate need to make a decision. Because of these delays, more people are speculating that Berlin is only going to consistently postpone making a decision but that it has no intention of granting the request.

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President Obama will award the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song to former Beatles’ vocalist Sir Paul McCartney at the White House East Room 2nd of June. He is the third recipient of the award next to Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder.

A presidential concert will follow dubbed as In Performance at the White House Celebrating the Music of Paul McCartney: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize. It will be aired on PBS stations, 28th of July 2010 at 8:00pm ET. Performers include the Jonas Brothers, Faith Hill, Stevie Wonder, Jack White, Jerry Seinfield, among others, and McCartney himself.

As for Sir McCartney, this recognition is just one among many that he had received. His contribution to music is no doubt, and in fact he is considered as the most successful songwriter of popular music in the history. There are emerging musicians and compelling artists today, and maybe one, two, or more of them find inspiration in him.

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Germany has yet to put forth a final decision on aid to Opel, leaving thousands of jobs at the GM unit unstable at best. Opel, which has been losing money for quite sometime, seeks aid from Germany so that it may better compete in the tough European auto market, but GM’s recent rallying performance has made it difficult for the company to get the German Aid they need. GM however, only wants to contribute half of the 3.7 billion needed Euros, saying that Opel is a European company, for European taxpayers to worry about.

Three of the four German states that house Opel plants are ready to grant guarantees, raising pressure on the national government to do so.

GM came under much heat last year, as it scrapped its plan to sell the unit, and instead asked the European workers and governments to contribute to the cost of a return to profitability.

Germany is apprehensive about funneling taxpayer funds into the company although it is the home country to half of the 48,000 employees of the company, because of GM having reneged on a sale of the unit to Canadian supplier, Magna International, which the government set up.

– By: Stephen Calogera

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Three major clients of the Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.) electronics manufacturing group are pressuring the company demanding a joint investigation effort regarding working conditions at Foxconn’s Chinese site.

Three major clients of the Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.) electronics manufacturing group are pressuring the company demanding a joint investigation effort regarding working conditions at Foxconn’s Chinese site.Apple Inc.’s spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said on Tuesday “We are saddened by the tragic loss of this young employee and we are awaiting results of the investigations into his death,” and added “We require our suppliers to treat all workers with dignity and respect.” Apple had sent a team to evaluate the working conditions at Foxconn’s Chinese facility, in the mean time HP and Dell too are evaluating and examining reports from Foxconn since they have outsourced production contracts too with this electronics manufacturing group.The questions which this “suicide cluster case” brings up against Foxconn is that, is Foxconn really running sweatshops? Are all Foxconn operations based on human misery? The inadecvat working conditions at Foxconn are a result of a corporate directive or is this just an isolated case which is present only in one particular manufacturing site of the Foxconn factory grid? Terry Gou, Chairman of Hon Hai tried to defend the manufacturing giant by stating that Foxconn does not operates human sweatshops but normal and legit businesses, how ever all the evidences point at the opposite.Also a question remains open. will Apple, Dell and HP move its operations to other manufacturing companies if it will be proven that this suicide cases are a result of some sort of company directive? In the case of Sun Danyoung, a worker of Foxconn who committed suicide because of the interrogation process that he was subjected to, an interrogation which was conducted because he lost the prototype of an iPhone, one could wonder did Apple pressure the interrogation? If yes, Apple may become the prime cause of this suicide case.

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