The UK’s two market leading MES companies merge operations and rebrand as Ergé

  • March 3, 2023
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Althea UK and Medipass Healthcare – two of the UK’s leading Managed Equipment Services (MES) companies – have announced they have merged operations and have been rebranded as Ergéa. The newly formed Ergéa is now the UK’s leading independent Managed Equipment Services business, covering radiology, radiotherapy, endoscopy, cardiology, and surgical theatres. Ergéa also provides vendor […]

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GoodRx revenue sinks in fourth quarter

  • March 3, 2023
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GoodRx reported falling revenue for the fourth quarter, but its stock rallied early Wednesday after beating earnings expectations.  The company, best known for its drug cost-transparency tools, reported $184.1 million in revenue for Q4 compared with $213.3 million in the prior-year period. Net loss for the quarter was $2 million, compared to $39.9 million last […]

Quick Charge Podcast: March 2, 2023

  • March 3, 2023
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Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee […]

Mississippi, 50th place in everything, passes bill to stop EV dealers

  • March 2, 2023
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The Mississippi Senate has passed a bill that will stop electric car companies from opening their own dealerships in the state, ensuring that the state famous for being last place in many rankings of all 50 states remains there. There is a saying used in the US: “Thank God for Mississippi.” This is a reference […]

A new study about seabirds and offshore wind turbines may surprise you

  • March 2, 2023
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Swedish power giant Vattenfall did a two-year, €3 million study of seabirds at an offshore wind farm off Scotland – here’s what it found. The aim of the 115-page study, which took place at Vattenfall’s 11-turbine Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm, aka the European Offshore Wind Deployment Center, was: …to improve our understanding of seabird flight […]

Universal Hydrogen’s 40-passenger hydrogen electric plane completes maiden flight [Video]

  • March 2, 2023
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Mere weeks after achieving experimental airworthiness certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Universal Hydrogen has successfully taken its 40-passenger regional hydrogen electric plane to the skies. The aircraft took off from Washington state this morning and ascended to an altitude of 3,500 mean sea level (MSL) before safely landing, as you can see in […]

Ford creates new Latitude AI business to develop hands-free, automated driving tech

  • March 2, 2023
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Ford unveiled Thursday a new business unit called Latitude AI, designed to develop automated driving tech for future vehicles. The division will initially focus on a hands-free, eyes-off driver assist system to improve safety and the driver experience. In 2017, Ford injected $1 billion into Argo AI, a self-driving startup, along with Volkswagen, in a […]

Ford will restart F-150 Lightning production on March 13

  • March 2, 2023
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Ford has announced that Lightning production will restart on March 13, after being paused for about a month while a battery issue was investigated. Currently, F-150 Lightnings are under a stop-shipment order, though not a stop-sale, until production restarts. Ford originally stopped production in early February after one vehicle displayed a battery issue during pre-delivery […]