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Zenobē acquires Revolv’s 100 unit electric delivery van fleet

Zenobē acquires Revolv’s 100 unit electric delivery van fleet

Published by skeptic

UK-based Zenobē backed up its ambitions of fleet electrification leadership by closing on its acquisition of California-based Revolv, signaling the company’s continued confidence in North America’s commercial EV market. Zenobē’s approach to the US market has been mostly focused on managing and deploying electric school bus fleets, but this latest acquisition adds 13 operational depots in California and more than 100 trucks to the company’s fleet, catapulting Zenobē towards a leading position in North American commercial EV sector.  “This (investment) is a strong opportunity to accelerate electrification at scale,” explains Steven Meersman, Founder and Director of Zenobē. “By pairing Revolv’s fleet electrification platform with our deep experience and unique financing models. We’re grateful to Revolv CEO Scott Davidson and the team at GDEV Management for backing Revolv early on. Now we are taking it to the next stage.” In addition to the California sites, Zenobē supports over 3,400 electric vehicles across over 120 depots globally, with operations in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Zenobē are also the leading owner and operator of …

Dead Man’s Wire review – an outrageous true crime story told blandly by Gus Van Sant

Dead Man’s Wire review – an outrageous true crime story told blandly by Gus Van Sant

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Gus Van Sant’s latest holds you hostage. You’re stuck right by Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård), who on February 8, 1977 strolled up to the offices of his mortgage broker, the Meridian Mortgage company, and wrapped a thin wire around the neck of the owner’s son, Richard Hall (Dacre Montgomery). One jerk, one stumble, one dash for freedom – the wire would pull, the shotgun attached to the other end would fire, and Richard’s head would be blown to smithereens. It’s a contraption called the “dead man’s wire”, which also lends the film its title. Yet, what feels claustrophobic about Dead Man’s Wire is less its imminent threat (if you don’t know how the real-life tale ended), but the audience’s proximity to Tony, who possesses Skarsgard’s globe-sized eyeballs, to which the actor’s added a twitchy intensity, a moustache, and a fringe that …

Workhorse electric van fleet hits the 20 MILLION MILE mark

Workhorse electric van fleet hits the 20 MILLION MILE mark

Published by skeptic

Workhorse and Motiv may not get headlines like the imaginary trucks from big T, but they’re doing the real work of electrification. Last week, the company’s commercial EV fleet crossed a major milestone logging their twenty millionth all-electric mile. (!) The new Workhorse Group formed after the $105 million merger of Workhorse and Motiv Electric Trucks late last year did a lot more than combine R&D and sales efforts, they combined their respective fleets’ collective miles driven, too – and their cumulative total of more than twenty million miles driven is made even more impressive when you realize that these are mostly last-mile delivery vans! “Twenty million miles is a significant threshold which reflects not only the quality and performance of our vehicles, but the trust that our many repeat customers have placed in Workhorse. This achievement reinforces the view that medium-duty is the sweet spot for electrification,” said Scott Griffith, CEO of Workhorse. “Every day our vehicles safely and reliably transport the goods, packages, and people that are the lifeblood of our economy, all with zero …

Van Gogh Museum Acquires Only Third Painting by Female Artist at TEFAF

Van Gogh Museum Acquires Only Third Painting by Female Artist at TEFAF

Published by Jenni Sidey

At TEFAF Maastricht, the Van Gogh Museum acquired Virginie Demont-Breton’s L’homme est en mer, a painting from 1887–88 that now counts as only the third painting by a woman in the institution’s collection, according to Artnet News. As reported by senior editor Kate Brown, the painting of a woman looking longingly while holding an infant—presumably pining for the titular man at sea—was purchased by the Amsterdam museum with public funds dedicated to acquisitions for a price between €500,000 and €1 million ($543,000 and $1.1 million). The sale on TEFAF’s opening day was brokered by Gallery 19C from Dallas-Forth Worth, where the work had been in a private collection for 20 years. Related Articles “Van Gogh had seen Demont-Breton’s painting, which was made in between 1887 and 1889, reproduced in black and white in a magazine about French salon paintings and he was so inspired by it that he copied it,” according to Artnet. “It is one of the only paintings by a woman artist that he is known to have emulated.” About the work, Lisa …

The Met Releases High-Definition 3D Scans of 140 Famous Art Objects: Sarcophagi, Van Gogh Paintings, Marble Sculptures & More

The Met Releases High-Definition 3D Scans of 140 Famous Art Objects: Sarcophagi, Van Gogh Paintings, Marble Sculptures & More

Published by José Betancourt

We can go through most of our lives hold­ing out hope of one day see­ing in real­i­ty such works as van Gogh’s Sun­flow­ers, Mon­et’s Haystacks, a clay tablet con­tain­ing actu­al cuneiform writ­ing with our own eyes, or the ancient Egypt­ian Tem­ple of Den­dur. We can actu­al­ly come face to face — or rather, face to sur­face — with all of them, tem­ple includ­ed, at New York’s Met­ro­pol­i­tan Muse­um of Art, which con­tains all those and more arti­facts of human civ­i­liza­tion than any of us could hope to exam­ine close­ly in a life­time. But even if we did, we might only feel tempt­ed to look at them more close­ly still, even to touch them. That may be an improb­a­ble hope, but we can at least get clos­er than ever now thanks to the Met’s new archive of high-def­i­n­i­tion 3D scans. “View­ers can zoom in, rotate, and exam­ine each mod­el, bring­ing unprece­dent­ed access to sig­nif­i­cant works of art,” says the Met’s offi­cial announce­ment. “The 3D mod­els can also be explored in view­ers’ own spaces through aug­ment­ed real­i­ty (AR) on most smart­phone …

Van drives through barricade near White House

Van drives through barricade near White House

Published by Sam Flores

A van drove through a barricade near the White House early Wednesday morning, authorities said. The Secret Service said an individual drove the vehicle into a temporary security barrier near Madison Ave., NW and H Street, NW shortly before 6:30 a.m. EDT. No injuries were reported. “The Metropolitan Police Department’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Team responded and… Source link

Designer Dries Van Noten to Launch Foundation in Venice

Designer Dries Van Noten to Launch Foundation in Venice

Published by Jenni Sidey

Fashion designer Dries Van Noten and his partner Patrick Vangheluwe will launch next month a new foundation in Venice dedicated to craftsmanship. The new Fondazione Dries Van Noten will be located in the historic Palazzo Pisani Moretta on the Grand Canal in the San Polo neighborhood. Over the course of each year, the foundation will stage a number of presentations, collaborative projects, residencies, special events, and activations for artists, designers, and craftsmen at all levels of their careers. Related Articles The goal of the Fondazione is “to unite the arts by dissolving traditional boundaries, affirming that all creative expression stems from the gestures and skills that define human making,” according to a release. A manifesto published by the Fondazione reads, “Here, centuries of craftsmanship serve as a backdrop for new dialogues: between artworks and artisans, between past and present, and between local talent and international creativity. The Fondazione envisions Venice not as a static museum, but as a living, evolving hub where ideas circulate as freely as the tides.” The Gothic exterior of the Palazzo …

Joshua Jackson: James Van Der Beek was ‘a real man who showed up’

Joshua Jackson: James Van Der Beek was ‘a real man who showed up’

Published by Sam Flores

Joshua Jackson says he knows he was “really just a footnote” in James Van Der Beek’s life, despite the “amazing” time they spent together as stars of the series “Dawson’s Creek.” The star of “The Affair” is reflecting publicly for the first time about his former castmate, who died Feb. 11 at age 48 after a battle with colorectal cancer. The time they shared on set was “formational” for them, Jackson said on “Today.” When the “Dawson’s Creek” pilot aired in January 1998, he was 19 and Van Der Beek was almost 21, playing characters who were 15. “I know both of us look back on that time with great fondness, but I will also say that I know that I’m really just a footnote in what he actually accomplished in his life.” Jackson spoke with great respect for his friend, who he said “became what we used to just call a good man, a man of the kind of belief, the kind of faith that allowed him to face the impossible with grace, an …

Dries Van Noten at Chainsaw, the Venezuelan coffee shop in Melrose Hill

Dries Van Noten at Chainsaw, the Venezuelan coffee shop in Melrose Hill

Published by Sam Flores

This story is part of Image’s March Outside issue, a celebration of the Los Angeles outdoors and the many lives to be lived under its unencumbered sky. The ritual of meeting up and hanging out at a coffee shop in L.A. is a showcase of style filled with a subtle site-specific tension. Don’t you see it? Comfort battles formality fighting to break free. Hiding out chafes against being perceived. In the end, we make ourselves at home at all costs — and pull a look while doing it. It’s the morning after a night out. Two friends meet up at Chainsaw in Melrose Hill, the cafe with the flan lattes, crispy arepas and sorbet-colored wall everybody and their mom has been talking about. Miraculously, the line of people that usually snakes down Melrose yearning for a slice of chef Karla Subero Pittol’s passion lime fruit icebox pie is nonexistent today. Thank God, because the party was sick last night — the DJ mixed Nelly Furtado’s “Promiscuous” into Peaches’ “F— the Pain Away” and the walls …