Tag: July

Top 10 Hardest and Easiest Spelling Bee Words, July 29-Aug. 4

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Here are the meanings of the least-found words that were used in (mostly) recent Times articles.

1. lacteal — relating to, or consisting of, milk:

A bipartisan group of 32 members of Congress is asking the Food and Drug Administration to crack down on companies that call plant-based beverages “milk.” They say F.D.A. regulations define milk as a “lacteal secretion” obtained by milking “one or more healthy cows.” — Got Almond Milk? Dairy Farms Protest Milk Label on Nondairy

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Car incentives increase in July

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July was a good example of how rising incentives are contributing to an improving sales climate.

A buoyant economy and improving stockpiles helped push light-vehicle deliveries up 15 percent to some 1.3 million in July from depressed levels a year earlier, GlobalData said in a preliminary report.

The seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of sales tallied 15.9 million last month, Motor Intelligence said, just within the range of forecasts of 15.9 million to 16.1 million but up sharply from July 2022’s

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Germany car sales: Electric cars on the rise in July

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Sales of full-electric cars continued to grow in Germany, boosted by demand for EV-only brands Polestar, Tesla and MG Motor.

Battery-electric car registrations jumped 69 percent to 48,682 in Germany in July, giving the drivetrain a 20 percent market share, according to data from the German motor transport authority (KBA).

Overall registrations including gasoline and diesel vehicles rose 18 percent to 243,277.

July’s growth was driven by automakers gradually fulfilling their backlog of orders, which were caused when supply shortages

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Tesla China sales fall in July to lowest level of 2023

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Tesla is offering shopping vouchers worth 3,000 yuan ($420) to new customers in Shanghai, in conjunction with a local government incentive program aimed at boosting consumption and the flagging economy.

The U.S. automaker is giving the vouchers to 3,000 customers who order and register one of its locally-built Model 3 or Model Y electric vehicles in August.

While falling under the local government’s wider program providing discounts on groceries, movies and in other areas, the vouchers are yet another offer

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China’s EV makers BYD, Nio, Li boost July sales

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Sales by Li, Nio and Xpeng beat expectations by 1,000 to 2,000 units, CMB International analysts including Ji Shi wrote in a note.

Nio’s sales almost doubled from the previous month. Volume is on the rise after an Abu Dhabi investment entity agreed in June to take a 7 percent stake in the Shanghai-based manufacturer for about $740 million.

The uptick in sales suggests a turn in fortunes for Nio, which posted a bigger-than-expected loss of 4.74 billion yuan ($660

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July 2023 was the hottest month recorded to date

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Most humans felt the scorching touch of climate change in July.

July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded, and climate change made the elevated temperatures across 51 percent of Earth’s land surface at least five times more likely, according to a study released August 2 by Climate Central.

Researchers had already spotlighted the fingerprint of climate change on recent heat waves in China, North America and Europe (SN: 7/19/23; SN: 7/25/23). But the new report shows

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Phoenix Just Had Its Hottest July Ever. So What Now? – Mother Jones

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Charles Sanders, 59, right, pauses as Kevin Hendershot, 47, pours ice into a bucket outside their tent in “The Zone” homeless encampment in downtown Phoenix during historic 2023 heatwave.Matt York/AP

This story was originally published by the Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

That Phoenix is hot should come as no surprise. The heat is often the first thing that comes up when someone from out of state asks locals about

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6 Great Space Images From July

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Last year, a NASA spacecraft slammed into a space rock, Dimorphos, to test a way to defend Earth from a rogue asteroid. The Hubble Space Telescope recorded a cluster of 37 boulders now floating above the surface of Dimorphos.

NASA, ESA, David Jewitt (UCLA), Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

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