The EVA’s helmet is 3D-printed and has particular padding parts that home communication mics and stress management valves. The new spacesuit comes with an upgraded visor that rotates and provides a wider area of view. The helmet additionally incorporates a particular show display (heads-up show) and a digital camera to indicate vital data like stress ranges contained in the spacesuit, temperature ranges, and humidity. Moreover, the corporate claims it reduces vibrant glare when astronauts are exterior the spacecraft performing spacewalks.
The exterior material options flame-resistant supplies, with Teflon material and Nomex enjoying a key position. Teflon materials had been additionally part of the spacesuits used for the Apollo missions. NASA’s model of the material is known as Beta Cloth, which is actually ultrafine glass filament used as yarn to make material after which coated with Teflon (polytetrafluoroethylene or PTFE). With a melting level of over 650 levels Centigrade, this materials provided thermal shielding and guarded towards harmful lunar mud for astronauts sporting the A7L house go well with for the Apollo missions.
Subsequent iterations noticed NASA utilizing new supplies like Kevlar, GORE-TEX, and Nomex. Nomex, which can also be utilized in SpaceX’s EVA spacesuit, is a vital aspect of firefighter fits for its flame resistance. Aside from being non-inflammable, Nomex can also be a preferred alternative for making spacesuits owing to its increased ranges of consolation and sturdiness. Notably, the go well with Neil Armstrong wore for his historic moonwalk had each Teflon and Nomex.
One resolution that you’ll have seen at your quirky neighbor’s home is utilizing an outdated tire as a planter. Their roomy and versatile nature makes them best for storing your common plant. One merely must fill them with soil or peat moss or the like and go away sufficient room for the vegetation to stretch out. Some even like to color the tires the colour of their alternative, so they appear extra ornamental and never like somebody by chance left tires of their yard so lengthy that vegetation grew in them.
A possible challenge that ought to be famous right here is that tires aren’t precisely pure, to say the least, and as they break down over time poisonous substances might contaminate the soil. So should you go the planter route, it is best to play it protected and never use the tires for edible vegetation.
There are all kinds of straightforward little tasks a tire that needs to be replaced can be utilized for, like a ready-made pet mattress, the bottom of a desk, and, in fact, a basic out of doors swing. But as you push across the tires to perform a few of these tasks, it could daybreak on you that they make completely affordable train gear as nicely. You might have seen them being utilized in gyms by folks actually into figuring out, and their considerably heavy and versatile nature can simply turn into a part of a house train routine, whether or not you are flipping them, lifting them, or leaping between them as a part of an cardio routine. Sooner than later chances are you’ll end up wanting extra tires for some elaborate routine, and providing to take them off your mates’ arms.
Every 12 months with out fail, Cub House Honda at all times brings something cool to the Bangkok International Motor Show. Frequently, the group is not content material to solely carry one cool factor, and this 12 months isn’t any totally different. Folks, feast your eyes on the Honda Monkey Star Wars Edition, created in two variants in collaboration with H2C Design.
Those with even a passing familiarity with the franchise can most likely already guess what the 2 variants are. Naturally, there is a Dark Side Monkey and a Light Side Monkey, every with their very own coloration and graphics scheme to set them aside from every part else on the highway.
And it is all concerning the particulars right here. The Dark Side Monkey is primarily black with crimson accents, in addition to a glow-in-the-dark yellow Star Wars brand on the tank. Meanwhile, the Light Side Monkey is primarily silver with blue accents, with a white glow-in-the-dark Star Wars brand on the tank.
Both bikes get carbon fiber air cleaner covers, however every has a distinct graphic in step with its Dark Side or Light Side theme. The facet covers on each bikes get Honda Monkey graphics in that unmistakable Monkey font. The Dark Side Monkey will get crimson rim tape to set off its tiny wheels, whereas the Light Side Monkey will get (what else?) blue rim tape.
Whichever facet of the Force you select, there’s additionally a field of goodies that comes together with the Monkey Star Wars Edition. It features a Star Wars LED mild field (full with Honda Monkey brand as a part of its composition), a Star Wars mild saber LED lamp (crimson or blue), a Star Wars pilot jacket, and an applicable keychain to go along with your alternative of a Dark Side or Light Side Monkey.
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The Honda Monkey Star Wars Limited Edition Auction
As you’ve got most likely guessed, the Honda Monkey Star Wars Edition bikes are restricted version, numbered machines. Cub House and H2C Design are internet hosting a stay, on-site public sale on the 2024 Bangkok International Motor Show this 12 months, the place two fortunate winners will have the ability to win both the Light Side Monkey Serial Number Four or the Dark Side Monkey Serial Number 66.
Registration will happen from March 27, 2024 up till the time of the stay public sale, which will likely be held on April 7, 2024 (which can be the final day of the 2024 BIMS). The public sale runs from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. that day. Anyone who needs to take part can solely achieve this in individual, they usually should register by way of a particular kind (linked within the official Facebook submit above) forward of time.
Registrants should be able to current ID and ฿1,000 (about US $27.51 on the time of writing) as a safety deposit to take part within the stay public sale. Winners will have the ability to retrieve their prize bikes from the Cub House Ekkamai location.
But what do you all assume? Are you embracing the Light or Dark sides?
The 2024 Bangkok International Motor Show is occurring proper now and Cub House Honda likes to introduce a few of its extra-special restricted version bikes on the present flooring. Remember the Hot Wheels Monkey? So, what tasty little minimoto did Cub House pull the wraps off of on the 2024 BIMS?
This time round, Cub House opted to take us all again in time with the Dax 1978 Special Edition. That’s proper; if the shape issue of the revived Dax wasn’t retro sufficient for you, Cub House put a little bit one thing further of their Mr. Fusion for this look bundle.
You get particular colorblock graphics, a particular facet cowl that some say reminds them of the German flag for some purpose, a chrome rear rack, and a chrome fender and entrance reflector set from Kitaco.
All in all, it is a fairly convincing vibe this look bundle has going for it. Then once more, the general form of the Dax type of does plenty of the heavy lifting already.
What’s the pricing like, you could surprise? It’ll run you ฿97,900, which converts to about US $2,686 on the time of writing. It’s not clear precisely what number of of those Cub House plans to make accessible, however like all Cub House particular editions, your best choice is to maneuver quick if you wish to get your fingers on one earlier than it disappears.
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As for these of us positioned elsewhere on this planet are SOL, as we’ll should do what we at all times do and sigh wistfully about one more cool bike provided in one other market that we won’t have.
By now, we must always in all probability be used to it, although. While European followers at the least get the common Dax 125, we Americans are nonetheless ready to see if it’s going to ever grace our shores in some unspecified time in the future down the road. Please, Honda? Pretty please?
Lordstown Motors started out with a bang. Its Endurance pickup was featured at the White House in 2020 with President Trump praising the design. “This is incredible”, Trump mentioned in describing the truck. Trump went on to explain the advantages that the corporate would convey to Lordstown Ohio, with the founder Steve Burns claiming 100,000 vans can be constructed within the Lordstown plant. Senator Rob Portman from Ohio mentioned that Lordstown would rent 1,100 folks that 12 months, and the world would newly be christened, “Voltage Valley”. However, Lordstown Motors didn’t create a “voltage valley”. None of this occurred.
Lordstown didn’t promote 100,000 trucks. It didn’t rent 1,100 individuals. It didn’t do something however go bankrupt, and get sued and investigated by the SEC. Yet, miraculously, evidently the Endurance pickup will stay on despite all of this. Burns has someway snuck the belongings out of the failing firm, and brings them to a brand new house in his latest enterprise LandX. Here’s what we all know in regards to the Lordstown debacle and the way forward for the Endurance pickup.
In order to provide the newest and correct info potential, the info used to compile this text was sourced from producer web sites and different authoritative sources, together with C-SPAN, Reuters, Hindenberg Research, Automotive News, and The SEC.
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Lordstown Motors Filed For Bankruptcy In 2023
Lordstown Motors launched in 2018, with its Endurance Pickup deliberate to go to market in late 2020. Then it pushed again the discharge date of the electrical truck to 2021. Then it pushed the discharge date again to 2022, after promoting its manufacturing facility to Foxconn, and agreeing to have Foxconn be the contract producer of the pickup.
The failure to get to market completely undermined the whole mission of the corporate. Lordstown’s aim was to be the primary American EV pickup on the highway. However, throughout the time of its delays, the Ford F-150 Lightning and Rivian R1T have been accessible to the general public first. The truck truly hit the streets in late 2022, however virtually instantly had a recall on account of a propulsion difficulty. If all of this wasn’t unhealthy sufficient, Lordstown filed for chapter in June 2023.
Lordstown Motors Had A Bevvy Of Financial Issues
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Lordstown had entered into a deal with Foxconn to receive $170M. Foxconn, nonetheless, solely invested ~$57M to accumulate an eight-percent stake in Lordstown. Lordstown sued Foxconn over the hole in cost. Lordstown claimed that Foxconn persistently modified the necessities within the settlement to attain cost. At the identical time it filed the Foxconn lawsuit, Lordstown filed its Chapter 11 chapter. The firm meant to be offered to an even bigger participant within the area.
Before the chapter, in 2021, the analysis agency Hindenberg published a report that blew the whistle on Lordstown’s shady enterprise practices. Lordstown repeatedly claimed, even to the President of the United States, that it had orders for 100,000 vans. However, these orders have been by and enormous not actual. Many corporations and consultants have been paid to create orders that they by no means meant to fill.
Other companies merely took benefit of the no-cost, no-obligation reservation system to make themselves look higher by being tied to Lordstown’s electrical truck. The wake of this report precipitated a seismic shock in Lordstown’s C-Suite. Steve Burns, the founder, offered his whole share and the CFO resigned.
Lordstown has by no means been a financially steady firm, and as soon as the layers are pulled again, it seems the EV maker is nearer to a fraud operation than a automotive firm. Lordstown was a bell cow for a change within the EV market. Per Reuters:
“The bankruptcy of Lordstown signals that the days of successful EV startups is in the rear-view mirror,” mentioned Thomas Hayes, chairman at hedge fund Great Hill Capital. “Moving forward it will be Tesla and the traditional incumbents … that will duke it out for market share.”
This is unhealthy information for corporations like Rivian and Fisker, if that is true. However, we are inclined to assume that different small EV makers usually are not fairly on the extent of Lordstown’s scheming and plotting.
The Company Was Sued By Karma Automotive
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Beyond inside points, Lordstown additionally had points with different EV corporations. Karma, a inexperienced automaker, alleged that Lordstown poached staff from Karma and stole commerce secrets and techniques as properly. Karma initially sued Lordstown for $900M. However after the chapter information, Karma accepted a $40M settlement. Rather than try to bilk the penniless firm out of cash it did not have, Karma took what it may get, together with a $5M royalty for the usage of infotainment expertise.
Electric vans are already right here with hybrid and full EV variants in existence, however what does this imply for the long run?
Lordstown Has Also Run Afoul Of The SEC
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Lordstown’s troubles do not finish with lawsuits and chapter. We can’t declare to know whether or not Lordstown is responsible, nevertheless it actually has been accused of committing crimes towards its buyers. Here’s what we all know in regards to the SEC prices.
The Company Has Been Charged With Misleading Investors
“We allege that, in a highly competitive race to deliver the first mass-produced electric pickup truck to the U.S. market, Lordstown oversold true demand for the Endurance,” mentioned Mark Cave, Associate Director of the Division of Enforcement. “Exaggerations that misrepresent a public company’s competitive advantages distort the capital markets and foil investors’ ability to make informed decisions about where to put their money.”
The SEC introduced these prices on February twenty ninth, 2024. So practically a 12 months after the chapter, the hits hold coming for Lordstown. Not solely has Lordstown needed to pay thousands and thousands in court docket settlements and money owed, it now offers with prison prices for its underhanded enterprise techniques. I
In this SEC case, Lordstown has already agreed to pay $25.5M to the SEC in a cease-and-desist and disgorgement order. However, this cost doesn’t embrace an settlement or denial of the SEC’s findings. The SEC’s investigation remains to be ongoing, and there’s no telling the place this might wind up.
While Lordstown Motors was in scorching water for some time, it looks as if the EV truck phase would possibly’ve misplaced a stellar all-electric pickup truck.
The Lordstown Endurance May Live On
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Despite all of this nefarious dealing, the Endurance pickup truck shouldn’t be fairly useless. In truth, it appears like Lordstown itself shouldn’t be even useless. Lordstown has emerged from chapter, as a new corporation called NuRide.
NuRide is already buying and selling on the inventory market and opened at $2.80 per share. Not solely does the precise Lordstown firm stay on, however so does the Endurance. Due to some opportunistic buying throughout the chapter, the Endurance pickup will nonetheless be produced, although beneath a brand new identify.
Steve Burns, Lordstown’s Founder, Has Bought Assets From The Bankrupt Company And Founded LandX, An EV Company
Steve Burns based Lordstown, and isn’t performed together with his pursuit of an electrical pickup truck. In January 2024, Burns introduced that he had began a new EV startup called LandX. LandX claims to be the “future of mobility”. This is a relatively ridiculous declare, as the premise of the whole firm is a failed pickup that might not get to market earlier than its opponents.
It is totally unclear what LandX’s market plan is. It doesn’t also have a new identify for its pickup. It doesn’t have a worth, an order system, or actually even a option to manufacture the vans, as Foxconn at present owns the plant that constructed the Endurance, not NuRide or LandX.
It appears unlikely Foxconn would enter right into a cope with an organization that’s so intently tied to 1 that sued them inside the final twelve months, and is run by somebody who couldn’t adequately cope with Foxconn in manufacturing EVs up to now.
LandX Is Marketing Pickup Trucks Identical To The Endurance
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On LandX’s website, there are photos and movies that includes the Endurance. This shouldn’t be merely a truck that appears much like the Endurance, or making use of the identical physique, it actually bears a Lordstown brand proper on the location. This is extraordinarily complicated, as LandX is seemingly a completely new firm to each the failed Lordstown, and the brand new firm, NuRide.
Simply put, we aren’t positive what’s going on with the Endurance. We have no idea what the long run for the Endurance is as a result of Steve Burns has not made any concrete strikes as to what is going to occur with the truck. The new firm LandX does seem to hunt to create extra electrical pickups which can be based mostly solely on the Endurance’s construct, however whether or not it will likely be the very same truck (together with the identify) we’re uncertain. Unfortunately, virtually each celebration concerned here’s a mess, and it’s troublesome to discern the long run with these gamers.
Here at RideApart, we’re well-documented lovers of all issues Cub House Honda.
For these unfamiliar, Cub House is an offshoot of Thai Honda, specializing in creating small, limited-edition runs of Honda’s extraordinarily widespread 125s. While you may argue that they are typically all about paint and graphics, my pal, is not that the very first thing that catches your eye while you take a look at any bike? Aesthetics aren’t the solely factor, positive, however they’re vital.
Anyway, as you might also have heard, internationally beloved Dragon Ball manga creator and famous gearhead Akira Toriyama died on March 1, 2024. He was 68 years previous. Fans world wide have been posting tributes to the person and his plain affect in manga, anime, and likewise far past both of these realms.
This construct is a very wonderful instance of how artwork conjures up artwork, as a result of it is a real-life recreation of a Moto Guzzi V8 GP Racer that Akira Toriyama drew in his manga. So it went from being an actual (if basically unobtanium) traditional race bike in the true world, was filtered by means of Toriyama’s mind and expertise, after which was abstracted as soon as extra by Ganesha Customs into the real-world Honda Monkey-based duplicate you now see earlier than you.
Honestly, the truth that people construct stuff like this was a tribute to Toriyama’s enduring affect lengthy earlier than he handed away.
Before All Of These, There Was The Cub House Monkey X Dragon Ball Limited Edition
Back in 2019, Cub House Honda created a particular, restricted version Honda Monkey x Dragon Ball bike. So, fairly fittingly, on the event of Toriyama’s passing, Cub House posted the next touching tribute to its official Facebook web page.
The textual content reads, “From the most popular anime of all time through the story comes the Limited Edition pattern. Monkey x Dragon Ball will be a legend … forever. To Professor Toriyama Akira, the creator of Dragon Ball. Thank you for giving us special memories at CUB.”
It’s easy, it is becoming, it is good.
If you wish to take a closer-up take a look at the small print of this bike from when it was initially launched, Thai YouTube channel GT-R Maxx has a video walkaround which we have posted right here. Please be aware that the spoken language right here is Thai, and so they’re strolling across the show at Cub House when it was launched.
The unique MSRP for the Monkey x Dragon Ball Limited version was ฿119,990, which is about US $3,356 in 2024 cash. Adjusting for inflation, that might have been about US $2,782.
We at RideApart be a part of the numerous whose lives had been touched by Toriyama’s enduring items and enthusiasm for cool motor autos, and want his household and associates the perfect throughout an indescribably troublesome time.
Staff on the Home of Rolls-Royce select Aldingbourne Trust as their House Charity for 2024
Nominated and voted for by workers throughout the enterprise
Fundraising actions will run all through the approaching 12 months
Continues the custom of supporting native good causes that started when the Home of Rolls-Royce first opened in 2003
“Our House Charity is chosen by our staff from a shortlist of good causes close to their hearts, a tradition that began when we started production here at the Home of Rolls-Royce at Goodwood in 2003. It’s always inspiring to see the whole team coming together in fundraising activities that make a huge difference to what are often small organisations, closely focused on our local area. As a company, we’re deeply embedded in and involved with our neighbouring communities; the House Charity is just one tangible example of our positive contribution to local life, over and above our substantial economic impact. We look forward to supporting Aldingbourne Trust during 2024.” Andrew Ball, Head of Corporate Relations, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is delighted to announce that its new House Charity for 2023 is Aldingbourne Trust, Chichester.
Founded in 1978, Aldingbourne Trust gives vary of companies for greater than 1,500 individuals with studying disabilities together with autism, autism spectrum issues and Down’s Syndrome, in addition to these residing with bodily disabilities. The charity operates greater than a dozen social enterprises as a part of its entrepreneurial strategy to offering alternatives, supported residing and outreach. It delivers a lot of its work, coaching and different assist actions by the Aldingbourne Country Centre, a preferred customer attraction and convention venue about 10 minutes’ drive from the Home of Rolls-Royce at Goodwood.
Abigail Rowe, Head of Fundraising, Aldingbourne Trust, stated, “We were thrilled when we received the news: to have the support of a major company and household name like Rolls-Royce is incredible and will make a huge difference. People with learning and physical disabilities can still face enormous challenges in becoming full and active citizens. We believe in giving people opportunities to develop skills and employment near or in the places where they live; but we rely on donations from business and the public to fund much of this vital support. We’re very much looking forward to working with the Rolls-Royce team over the next 12 months.”
The new House Charity was chosen by a well-established nomination and voting course of involving all workers at Rolls-Royce, who then organise fundraising occasions all year long. The actions persistently increase substantial sums that may be transformative for these extremely native organisations.
During 2023, Rolls-Royce workers raised cash for Sophie’s Legacy, a kids’s most cancers charity based by Gareth and Charlotte Fairall in reminiscence of their daughter, which works to enhance hospital companies, services and care provision for kids and their households. Funds had been raised by quite a lot of actions, together with a pop-up market the place Apprentices bought beautiful handmade leather-based items and different objects to colleagues from throughout the corporate.
+++ Sourour Stanke takes on accountability for Strategy, Services, Media House, Market Communications Europe, China within the Corporate Communication & Public Affairs division of the BMW Group +++
Munich. On 1 February, Sourour Stanke (44) joined the core management crew of Global Corporate Communications, enriching the division together with her huge expertise in communications and PR in addition to her worldwide background.
As head of the central division “Strategy, Services, Media House, Market Communications Europe, China,” she studies on to Maximilian Schöberl, Senior Vice President of Corporate Communication and Public Affairs.
Sourour Stanke has greater than 20 years of management expertise in globally working firms. Since 2017, she held the place of Head of Corporate Communications & Government Affairs at Giesecke+Devrient, the place she led the worldwide communication efforts, political communication, and model administration, thereby considerably shaping the general transformation of the corporate into a worldwide safety tech participant.
The capacity to navigate change, whereas balancing custom and modernity, has additionally outlined her skilled profession in numerous administration positions at famend firms equivalent to Siemens AG and Linde AG.
With her appointment, Ms. Stanke brings new views and strategic approaches, tech-savviness, in addition to precious experience in market assist and the event of revolutionary occasion codecs, to the communication work of the BMW Group.
The holidays are right here, which suggests it is time to enhance your home with lights, tinsel, and Santa Claus. Some individuals take the Clark Griswold method and go all-out for the celebration. But even on the most excessive ranges of Christmas cheer, we have by no means seen anybody embody an genuine McLaren Formula One car as a part of the decorations.
If you are interested by the way you get ahold of a McLaren F1 automotive to show in your entrance yard, it helps to be a big investor within the firm. The home in query reportedly belongs to Jeff Moorad, who’s an proprietor and CEO of the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball crew. He’s additionally a part of an funding group that owns at least 15 percent of McLaren Racing.
A touch upon Reddit provides extra proof to this automotive belonging not less than partly to Moorad. According to user sokzk: “I spoke with the woman who lives here, and she told me it’s the 2017 car with the current livery. Her husband is ‘on the board’ for McLaren. She also told me it’s getting moved to LA in January.”
The F1 automotive is a part of the decorations in entrance of his home on Balboa Island in Newport Beach, California. Many individuals on this space go to extraordinary lengths to mild up their houses for the vacations.
The TikTok video beneath reveals the automotive’s supply course of, together with a crane lifting it into the yard.
The video beneath lets us see the automotive within the daylight from numerous angles. There’s even a blow-up Santa within the cockpit. It’s not each day you see an actual Formula One automotive sitting in somebody’s yard, a lot much less see one getting used as a prop for a vacation show. We’re not complaining, although. If we had the money, we might most likely do the identical factor.
A power washer is commonly used for cleaning cars, driveways, and house siding, but it can also be very helpful for cleaning gutters. The cordless Ryobi power cleaner enables you to easily spray out your gutters while on a ladder. It provides up to 600 pounds per square inch (PSI) of power, which is more than enough to remove leaves. The power cleaner is available for $119 at Home Depot, but do note that the price is only for the tool itself.
As for customer reviews, this cordless power washer has an average rating of four out of five on Home Depot’s website. One of the main concerns is the lower power output, but as long as you are aware of its limitations, it should work well. For instance, it might not have enough power to remove stains from your driveway. However, it is compatible with other 18V Ryobi tools in the ONE+ line. This means that you can use the same batteries with this power cleaner as with other Ryobi tools. You can connect it to a hose or use a standalone 2-liter bottle to make it fully portable.
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