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Chinese electric car giant BYD’s electric scooter patents might mean cheaper e-motorbikes

Chinese electric car giant BYD’s electric scooter patents might mean cheaper e-motorbikes

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BYD is no stranger to seated electric scooters, having already joined a partnership leveraging its batteries for Singapore-based Scorpio’s high-performance electric scooters. But the carmaker might be interested in producing its own electric motorbikes in house, as revealed by new patent drawings. Spotted by Motorcycle Sports, the patent drawings reportedly suggest a motorbike that would fall into the 250cc to 350cc equivalent segment, likely offering around 15-25 kW (20 to 35 hp), and a battery capacity of up to 9 kWh. Higher performance designs, such as dual front brake rotors, hint at higher speeds than achieved by many of the more modest commuter electric scooters currently on the market. The motor appears to be mounted coaxially with the swingarm, a design adopted by Zero Motorcycles in its highest-performance flagship motorcycle platform. That setup also helps reduce suspension complexity by maintaining belt or chain tension consistently as the suspension flexes. BYD brands at the Bangkok International Auto Show (Source: BYD) BYD is known for building lower-cost electric vehicles that are still ripe on features, such as …

Four males found dead in car involved in crash in Gloucestershire | UK News

Four males found dead in car involved in crash in Gloucestershire | UK News

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Four people have been found dead in a car involved in a collision in Gloucestershire. The victims – described by police as “four males” – were inside a vehicle that left a road and collided with a tree. The fatal collision happened on the A436 in Ullenwood in the early hours of Sunday. Shortly before 2am, police on patrol came across the single vehicle collision which involved a black Renault Clio. “The vehicle had left the road and collided with a tree, and four males who were inside the vehicle were deceased,” a Gloucestershire Police spokesperson said. “Urgent work has been ongoing to identify all of those involved and notify their next of kin.” Follow Sky News on WhatsApp Keep up with all the latest news from the UK and around the world by following Sky News Tap here The road remains closed in both directions between the A417 Air Balloon roundabout and Severn Springs while an investigation is under way. Read more from Sky News:Barcelona to raise tourist tax for some visitorsSinger dies after …

Israeli tank fired at Hind Rajab family car from metres away: Investigation | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli tank fired at Hind Rajab family car from metres away: Investigation | Israel-Palestine conflict News

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The six-year-old remained alive for hours among the bodies of her dead relatives after they were attacked by Israeli troops. An Israeli tank fired from a close distance at the family car of six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab, and a tank shell directly hit the ambulance that was dispatched to help, according to an investigation. The killing of the child and her family in Gaza City in late January prompted international condemnation. Rajab, who survived the initial shooting, had begged for help as she bled out among the bodies of her dead relatives while on the phone with paramedics and her mother for three hours. In a documentary on civilian killings in the war on Gaza, Al Jazeera TV’s Fault Lines provided a detailed reconstruction of the incident, compiled in collaboration with nonprofit investigative groups, Forensic Architecture and Earshot. The investigation revealed the Israeli tank was likely just 13 to 23 metres (42 to 75 feet) away when it opened fire on Rajab and her relatives in their car. Through interviews with family members, Palestinian …

Home secretary calls for ‘urgent explanation’ as police car is filmed running over a cow | UK News

Home secretary calls for ‘urgent explanation’ as police car is filmed running over a cow | UK News

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The home secretary has called for a “full, urgent explanation” after a police car was filmed deliberately being driven into a cow twice. A video of the incident began circulating on social media this morning and shows a loose cow falling and skidding metres down a road after being hit by the vehicle. As the animal seems to be trying to get back on its feet, the car approaches for a second time. The cow’s head and part of its torso then appears to be stuck underneath the front of the vehicle as two officers get out. A second police car can be seen on an adjoining street. James Cleverly said in a post on X: “I can think of no reasonable need for this action. “I’ve asked for a full, urgent explanation for this. It appears to be unnecessarily heavy handed.” Surrey Police has issued a statement on the matter, saying it responded to reports of a cow running loose in Staines-upon-Thames at around 8.55pm on Friday evening. It had received “numerous calls from …

Belinda Lee: actor who died in 1961 car crash commemorated in Devon | Devon

Belinda Lee: actor who died in 1961 car crash commemorated in Devon | Devon

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She was regarded as Britain’s answer to Sophia Loren and Brigitte Bardot, leading a glamorous and sometimes scandalous life in Italy and the US. This weekend Belinda Lee, who died in a car crash in California in 1961 aged 25, is being celebrated in her home town, the rather less glitzy Devon seaside resort of Budleigh Salterton. Lee’s plaque. Photograph: Michael Downes Lee, the daughter of a hotel owner and florist, left the town – dismissed in a Noël Coward play as a place of potted palms with a damp golf course – in search of fame and fortune. She found it in London, continental Europe and Hollywood but was also saddled with a degree of notoriety over events in her private life, such as having relationship with a married aristocrat. On Saturday, the date of her birth, film academics, local museum leaders and Budleigh Salterton residents who remember “Billie”, as she was known in the town, will come together to unveil a blue plaque in her memory near where she lived. A hotel will …

Car drives away with fuel pump still attached causing hazardous inferno

Car drives away with fuel pump still attached causing hazardous inferno

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AFP Kuwait makes arrests over deadly fire as Indian victims’ families mourn Kuwaiti authorities said Thursday three people had been detained for suspected manslaughter over a building fire that killed dozens of Indian foreign workers and plunged relatives and friends into mourning.Three Filipinos were also among the 50 dead, officials in Manila said, after the fire sent black smoke billowing through the six-storey building south of Kuwait City.Most of oil-rich Kuwait’s population of more than four million is made up of foreigners, many of them from South and Southeast Asia working in construction and service industries.The fire, which also injured dozens, broke out around dawn on Wednesday at the ground level of the block housing nearly 200 workers in the Mangaf area, heavily populated with migrant labourers.”One of the injured died” overnight, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Abdullah Al-Yahya told reporters, after 49 people were declared dead on Wednesday.”The majority of the dead are Indians,” he added. “There are other nationalities but I don’t remember exactly.”Many of the dead and injured suffocated from smoke inhalation after being …

Nurses declare ‘national emergency’ as NHS patients treated in ‘cupboards and car parks’ | UK News

Nurses declare ‘national emergency’ as NHS patients treated in ‘cupboards and car parks’ | UK News

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Hospital patients are “dying in corridors”, nurses have warned as they declared a “national emergency” in the NHS. Patients are regularly treated on chairs in corridors for extended periods of time – and sometimes even days, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has said. They are also receiving cancer diagnoses in public areas, and may have to undergo intimate examinations there too, the union added. A survey of almost 11,000 frontline nursing staff across the UK shows the practice has become widespread, the RCN said. When asked about their most recent shift, almost two in five reported delivering care in an inappropriate area, such as a corridor. Patient privacy and dignity had been compromised, almost seven in 10 said. “You wouldn’t treat a dog this way,” one nurse said. Another nurse recounted a patient with dementia being in a corridor for hours without oxygen. They said: “When I arrived, she was in a wheelchair on a corridor with her daughter. She was extremely agitated, crying and confused. This care environment for any patient, never mind …

China’s car exports hit record high in April, as domestic sales fall

China’s car exports hit record high in April, as domestic sales fall

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BEIJING: China’s car exports surged to a record high in April, data showed on Friday (May 10), as domestic sales slipped 5.8 per cent from a year earlier amid intensifying price competition and consumers’ caution about spending on big items during a shaky economic recovery. Car exports jumped 38 per cent year-on-year to 417,000 units in April, continuing strong momentum from the previous month which posted a 39 per cent growth in exports, the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) said. An ongoing anti-subsidy investigation by the EU into Chinese automakers has disrupted and put pressure on vehicle exports to the bloc, but China has been actively exploring South America, Australia and ASEAN markets for exports, said Cui Dongshu, secretary general of the association. He said local automakers would have to make a choice between going overseas and losing out, as competition in the domestic market intensifies. Passenger vehicle sales in the world’s biggest auto market fell 5.8 per cent in April from a year earlier to 1.55 million units and slipped 9.6 per cent from …

Trump reportedly told oil execs he’ll end electric car incentives for billion in donations

Trump reportedly told oil execs he’ll end electric car incentives for $1 billion in donations

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Donald Trump has reportedly told oil executives that he will end electric car incentives if they contribute $1 billion to his election campaign. The former president has been all over the place with his comments on electric vehicles. Most of the time, in his rallies, he has brought them up as a talking point to ridicule them – focusing on the premise that “don’t go far” and “charging is a pain”. He went as far as calling them a “hoax”. But he has also claimed that he is “all for electric cars” and during his 2020 campaign, he tried to take credit for incentives put in place during the Obama administration. In practice, the former president was trying to put in place policies to slow down electric car adoption – at the request of some automakers, to be fair. The Trump administration attempted to eliminate the tax credit for electric vehicles in the original version of their 2020 budget, though the provision never passed. Furthermore, Trump was actively seeking to roll back vehicle emission standards that were encouraging automakers …