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  Largest EV Charging Station In World Powered By Diesel-Powered Generators The Harris Ranch Tesla Supercharger station is an impressive beast. With 98 charging bays, the facility in Coalinga, California, is the largest charging station in the world. But to provide that kind of power takes something solar can’t provide — diesel generators. Kevin Killough The Harris Ranch Tesla Supercharger station is an impressive beast. With 98 charging bays, the facility in Coalinga, California, is the largest charging station in the world. In 2017, Tesla CEO said that all Superchargers in the automaker’s network were being converted to solar.  “Over time, almost all will disconnect from the electricity grid,” Musk  posted  on X, formally known as Twitter.  Superchargers charge vehicles up to the 80% sweet spot in as little as 20 minutes, but to provide that kind of power for nearly 100 bays takes something solar can’t provide — diesel generators.  Investigative journalis...

The 17th Amendment Scores a Tiny Little Point when virtue resides pretty much nowhere CHRIS BRAY John Adams  anticipated  the arrival of Gavin Newsom, and the laugh-out-loud horrible appointment he just made to the Senate. But let’s start at the beginning. The Constitution initially assigned the choice of senators to the state legislatures, on the reasoning that it would give the states a degree of direct influence in the national government, balancing the federal system. Senators were to be older than representatives, and to be citizens for at least nine years, because they needed the maturity and independence to serve in the body that gave advice and consent in foreign affairs. But Publius also hinted that senators appointed by state legislatures would come from state legislatures, where men would choose their wisest colleagues to represent their interests in the central government. The upper house would therefore be filled with  statesmen , well-trained in the purposes...