GM, Tesla defend top spots in U.S. Automotive Loyalty Awards
The Lincoln Nautilus earned a new award for Overall Loyalty to Model in 2023.
Seminole Towne Center reopens after power restored
After three days without power, the lights came back on Sunday at the Seminole Towne Center in Sanford, and stores reopened for business, mall officials announced this weekend.
Florida Power & Light had pulled the plug on the center’s electricity on Thursday after the mall’s owner, Seminole Mall Realty Holding, failed to pay the power bill.
However, the big-box anchor stores — including Dick’s Sporting Goods, JCPenney, Dillards and Elev8 Fun — remained open and with the lights on. Those businesses are independently owned and on separate power connections.
“Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you know that the power has been restored and we will resume normal operating hours tomorrow,” according to a pair of Facebook posts on Sunday. “Please stop by and support our local small businesses throughout the mall.”
FP&L officials could not be reached for comment. It’s unclear whether the mall’s owner has paid its delinquent power bill in full.
First opened in the mid-1990s, the Seminole Towne Center once offered high-end stores to attract high-end shoppers from the nearby affluent communities of Heathrow and Alaqua.
BYD’s new $233,450 EV supercar to rival Ferrari, Lamborghini
BYD Co. debuted its most expensive car on Sunday, a 1.68 million yuan ($233,450) high-performance electric supercar pitted against gas-guzzlers rivals such as Ferrari NV and Lamborghini offer.
GM returns to France with full-electric Cadillac Lyriq
Cadillac already sells the Lyriq in Switzerland and will launch the EV in other European markets, starting with Germany by year-end.
SpaceX launch this week could end NASA astronaut’s nearly 15-year wait to get to space
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps has had to get comfy in three different spacecraft seats, but while she said she would have fit in any of them, it’s the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour set to lift off this week that ended up being the one that was just right.
Chosen as one of nine NASA astronaut candidates in 2009, Epps is the last of her classmates to fly into space. She had previously been assigned to both a Soyuz mission and a Boeing CST-100 Starliner mission to the ISS, but after a reassignment took her off the Soyuz trip and delays piled up on Boeing’s Starliner program, Epps was finally shifted to the SpaceX Crew-8 mission.
“I guess any launch is a great launch if you have a mission. So even though you’re the last, it doesn’t matter. You get that launch, you get the mission and you go,” she said after arriving Sunday to KSC with her crewmates. “You know they always save the best for last.”
Now, nearly 15 years later, she’s set to finally get to space atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A at 12:04 a.m. Friday.