One Super Bowl commercial caught everyone’s attention when it credited Canada with the existence of football.  Dave Grohl, the founder of Foo Fighters and former member of Nirvana, was the spokesperson for Crown Royal last night in their Super Bowl commercial.  It was a little surpr

Regiobus has ordered 15 battery-electric buses, thus beginning the transition of the fleet towards zero emission technology. The operator has turned to EvoBus and is then going to deploy 15 units of Mercedes eCitaro. Since 2020, regiobus has exclusively procured so-called mild hybrid buses; in paral

Japanese motorbike manufacturer Yamaha has launched its new Neo electric scooter – it's first model offering performance equivalent to a 50cc moped to be offered in the European market.The brand recently announced it would be offering a suite of new electric models including a new range of electri

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An electric wheelchair lithium-ion battery fire at an apartment caused two people to be treated at a local hospital for smoke inhalation and extremely elevated carbon monoxide levels. Authorities say this could’ve been a lot worse.ANN ARBOR, Mich. (FOX 2) - An electric wheelchair lithium-ion batt

Rep. Jim Langevin was barred from boarding a flight twice in a year because airline staff believed that the lithium-ion batteries in his wheelchair were unsafe for boarding, according to The Washington Post.Last month, when the congressman from Rhode Island, who is also a quadriplegic, planned to ta

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Judy Heumann, who spent decades advocating for the inherent dignity of people with disabilities, campaigning for federal civil rights legislation while organizing sit-ins, marches and other nonviolent demonstrations, and who later wielded influence as an official at the institutions she had worked s

Judy Heumann was a major American civil rights activist who remained little-known until a flurry of attention in the last three years of her life. Joseph Shapiro/NPR hide

Updated on: March 7, 2023 / 7:40 PM / MoneyWatch Elon Musk derided a disabled former Twitter employee after the worker said on the social media site that he wasn't sure if he still had a job.The spat began when Haraldur Thorleifsson, who has muscular dystrophy and relie