EV supply chain, price key concerns in KPMG automotive executive survey
Auto executives are concerned with supply chain resiliency and profitability in regard to the EV transition, KPMG said in survey released Tuesday.
Next Epcot festival: Disney creates hands-on art, fancy food, popcorn bucket that lights up
This year’s Epcot International Festival of the Arts should be bright and light thanks to creative hands-on activities and innovation with Disney World’s latest Figment-inspired popcorn bucket.
That new container, which features the purple dragon and the triangular Journey Into Imagination building, literally lights up, officials said.
“You’re seeing the ‘Beacons of Magic’ show reflecting on the glass panels of the pyramids” of the pavilion, said Dave Kesting, general manager of food and beverage and festivals.
“It is stunning. …. It is probably our most complex popcorn bucket to date,” he said.
The containers, branded with Festival of the Arts typography and sold with rainbow-colored popcorn, will again be available through mobile order rather than having parkgoers wait in a long line.
And while that festival element is … creative, it probably wouldn’t be considered the artsiest part of the arts fest. Kesting said the event is built on three pillars: the visual, the performance and the culinary arts.
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Tesla lowers range estimates as U.S. regulators tighten vehicle-test rules
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Lunar probe has no chance for soft moon landing, Astrobotic says
The moon will have to wait for Astrobotic Technology after its lunar lander began malfunctioning after a successful launch from the Space Coast on Monday.
The Pittsburgh-based company’s goals for a Feb. 23 soft landing on the near side of the moon came into question soon after it lifted off atop a United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
While it was put into the proper trajectory by ULA and Astrobotic teams were able to communicate with the spacecraft, it was not able to remain in the expected sun-facing position to generate solar power. Data revealed that a propellant leak was the culprit.
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Late Monday, Astrobotic revealed it was relying on the thrusters to keep it from “an uncontrollable tumble,” but that corrective measure was thought would only last about 40 hours. But on Tuesday afternoon, Astrobotic updated details of its overnight efforts that set the clock again for 40 more hours before it’s no longer able to correct its sun-pointing position, and then lose power.