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Tesla plans to build a manufacturing facility, employing 650, in northern California that will build advanced power-train components for other automakers...
...Manufacturing Loan Program for engineering-integration costs as it works with suppliers to complete the Karma. However, the second stage includes a $359.36 million loan tied to developing and manufacturing a less expensive Fisker hybrid in the U.S., which has been dubbed Project Nina. His new company expects to build between 75,000 to 100,000 of these highly efficient vehicles starting in late 2012; the second-generation Fisker will be a relative bargain, with a price tag around $40,000. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...nukes has always been bad. Since the Shah was in power, the U.S. and Israel put out an estimate every couple of years that Iran was four or five years away from a bomb. But no one ever knew or attempted to explain why Iran ultimately didn't build one - mainly because no one was certain...
...decision to build this thing cannot be called corrupt in any regular sense," says Sergei Malkov, a city councilor and one of the three members of the St. Petersburg land-use committee to vote against the plan. (Eleven voted in favor and one abstained.) "Gazprom is not the kind of organization that bribes or corrupts people from the bottom. It pushes through its initiatives from the very top," Malkov tells TIME. (Read "Russia-Europe Gas Spat Ends...
...There are four main prescriptions for a more realistic strategy in Afghanistan. First, stop trying to do the impossible, i.e., build an effective government in Kabul and enlarge Afghan security forces. Corruption, inefficiency and addiction are endemic to Afghan society. We should instead focus on forging a smaller army, say 75,000 or 100,000, that can and will actually fight, and concentrate on arming and training local warlords and tribal leaders who can defend themselves. This, backed by good U.S. logistics and intelligence, could block a Taliban reconquest of Afghanistan...