Month: January 2021

Boris Johnson will hold a news conference with England’s chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser later today, Downing Street has said. The prime minister will be joined by Professor Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance from 5pm, on the first day of England’s third national lockdown. In a national address on Monday, Mr Johnson
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Businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors will receive up to £9,000 in one-off grants to help them through England’s new coronavirus restrictions, the chancellor has said. The grants were part of a package of measures announced by Rishi Sunak totalling £4.6bn to help struggling firms after the latest measures came into force. Advertisement
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The government “should be able” to begin easing England’s coronavirus lockdown in March, a senior minister has told Sky News. Michael Gove said the public should not expect a sudden relaxation of the COVID-19 rules, with restrictions “progressively” relaxed instead. “The government is doing everything it can in order to ensure that we can roll
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Workhorse Group, a company focusing on commercial sales of last-mile electric delivery vans, has received an order for 6,320 all-electric vans. The order comes from Pride Group Enterprises, a company which focuses on equipment sales, rental and leasing for the logistics industry. While 6,320 doesn’t seem like an astounding number at first blush, it’s much
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January 4th, 2021 by U.S. Department of Energy  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) will host an informational webinar for its new $45 million Fiscal Year 2021 Systems Integration and Hardware Incubator funding opportunity on January 6, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. ET. DOE seeks to fund 10–20 research and development projects that will advance solar
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Blacksmith Electric has added a new electric scooter model known as the B4 to its existing lineup of electric motorcycles and scooters. The Chennai, India-based electric motorbike startup appears to have drawn heavily upon the design of their previous iteration, the B3. That scooter was in turn largely based on their stunning B2 electric cruiser motorcycle
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