Alan Ohnsman

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Advanced transportation & cleantech reporter. Love LA and am 50% of indie rock duo Combo Villains https://combovillains.bandcamp.com/album/get-up 🚶🚲🚌🚄🥁🎤

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Could iron and rust be the secret to storing renewable power for days? Battery startup Form Energy thinks so Iron And Rust Could Be The Secret To Storing Clean Power For Days (forbes.com)

Iron And Rust Could Be The Secret To Storing Clean Power For Dayswww.forbes.com Form Energy, led by a former Tesla executive and backed by Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures, sees the cheap metal as a solution to banking surplus green power.

Boeing bets on L.A. startup Equatic’s carbon removal tech with massive CO2 credit, hydrogen deal #climatesolutions #hydrogen https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2023/05/31/boeing-bets-on-startup-equatic-with-massive-co2-removal-hydrogen-deal/

Encouraging news in this week’s Current Climate with Katie Jennings: investment in new solar energy outpaces oil and the US finally ready to invest in high-speed rail https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2023/05/27/current-climate-solar-power-investments-to-eclipse-oil-in-2023/

Current Climate: Solar Power Investments To Eclipse Oil In 2023www.forbes.com This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability.

The U.S may not be a laggard in high-speed rail for much longer https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2023/05/25/the-us-is-preparing-to-put-billions-into-high-speed-rail/

The U.S. Is Preparing To Put Billions Into High-Speed Railwww.forbes.com It's been a global outlier in the technology but the Transportation Department may dole out more than $6.5 billion for bullet trains in California and Nevada.

Ford's EV customers will get access to Tesla's North American charging network from 2024 #tesla #electricvehicles https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2023/05/25/fords-ev-customers-getting-access-to-tesla-charging-network-in-2024/?sh=6453237f7004

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It’s kinda wonky, but here’s the technical explanation of what happened: Twitter’s servers heard Ron DeSantis’s speaking voice and killed themselves

Ron doesn't do irony: DeSantis laments ‘corporate journalists’ and ‘elites’ in whiny campaign kickoff with two billionaires... https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/05/24/desantis-2024-announcement-florida-governor-laments-corporate-journalists-and-elites-in-talk-with-elon-musk/

"The best joke is that he thinks he’s clever. He’s Michael Scott meets Dr. Evil." -- Nikki Glaser https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-05-24/elon-musk-comedy-style-help

Tesla just posted results of shareholder votes on propositions from last week's annual meeting. Better reporting rules on child and forced labor got 0 votes, which is kind of hard to fathom

The new red scare: America’s Iron Curtain of intolerance spreads to Nebraska https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/us/abortion-transgender-bill-nebraska.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

A jerk at home, a suckup abroad https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-elon-musk-doctrine-how-the-billionaire-navigates-the-world-stage-593a418b

I miss that simpler time when Florida was famous for dopey residents doing ridiculous things, rather than legislating intolerance and hate https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/05/03/florida-senate-votes-to-expand-dont-say-gay-law-through-8th-grade-and-restrict-preferred-pronouns/

Florida Senate Votes To Expand 'Don't Say Gay' Law Through 8th Grade And Restrict Preferred Pronounswww.forbes.com Florida’s Senate also voted to approve a bill to restrict funding for diversity, equity and inclusion programs at state colleges.

What a jerk https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173422311/elon-musk-npr-twitter-reassign

Elon Musk threatens to re-assign @NPR on Twitter to 'another company'www.npr.org Musk, who has been scuffling with the media since acquiring the platform last year, asked if NPR was going to start tweeting again.

Headline is a cheeky reference to early 80s new wave band famous for space-age haircuts, right?

Shanghai auto show crowds flock to BYD's Seagullwww.reuters.com At the Shanghai auto show this week, the largest crowds can be found around an unassuming, bright yellow hatchback parked at the booth of China's largest electric carmaker BYD .

How do I get assigned to the bears in Monrovia news desk?

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