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Business Wire
22-05-2025
- Automotive
- Business Wire
Forsee Power Equips OEM Westward Industries
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Forsee Power (FR0014005SB3 – FORSE), the expert in smart battery systems for commercial and industrial electric vehicles, announces that it will equip light electric vehicle manufacturer Westward Industries with its battery systems. Serial production of Forsee Power battery systems for Westward will start in Hilliard, Ohio during the second quarter of 2025. Westward Industries, innovating zero-tailpipe-emission light utility trucks for on-road and off-road operations Westward Industries is a North American manufacturing company, specializing in the production of compact utility vehicles. The company has developed a reputation for manufacturing vehicles tailored for various sectors, including municipal services, industrial operations, and agriculture. The company's flag ship model, the GO-4 Interceptor, was at first only available as a gas-powered vehicle, but back in 2014 they started their transition to electromobility and now offer a wide choice of electric options for the GO-4 along with a new 100% electric vehicle series the MAX-EV with zero-tailpipe-emissions and quiet operations. The MAX-EV series is a robust, 100%-battery light electric utility truck available in on-road and off-road versions with various configurations, including open box, dump box, and cargo box, catering to diverse utility needs. Categorized as a low-speed vehicle (LSV), the on-road model is limited to 25 mph (40 km/h) and suitable for roads marked 35 mph or less. Westward Industries has selected Forsee Power's ZEN 8 SLIM, a 48V battery pack capable of operating alone or in parallel with other packs, to power some of their new 2025 vehicle models. Forsee Power, the unrivalled leader in battery systems for commercial and industrial vehicles Westward will arrange from one to four battery packs on a vehicle depending on customer preference and vehicle workload requirements. The Forsee ZEN 8 SLIM batteries embed 8 kWh per pack, allowing the vehicles to operate autonomously up to a 200km max range with a 3x battery pack configuration. ZEN 8 SLIM has been designed to electrify off-highway and light vehicles in a 100%-battery mode. The batteries are only 128 mm thick and can be integrated both vertically and horizontally. The pack is available both as a stand-alone 48V system with its own embedded battery management system (BMS), as employed by Westward Industries. It can also be delivered as a 48V or 72V module in series with an external BMS, to allow use at system voltages up to 800V. ZEN 8 SLIM batteries offer an excellent energy density of 251 Wh/L – among the best on the market – to ensure all-day operations in one single charge, a very long life of 5,000 cycles, and IP67 certified for resistance to air and water. To date, Forsee Power has powered over 145,000 light electric vehicles and 4,500 electric buses globally, cementing its position as the leading non-Chinese innovator in battery systems for the market industrial and commercial vehicles market. The Forsee Power battery packs for Westward Industries will be added to existing production of the pack for a broad base of customers, currently available from Forsee Power's Columbus-area facility with Buy America compliance. About Forsee Power Forsee Power is an industrial group specializing in smart battery systems for sustainable electric transport (light vehicles, off-highway vehicles, buses, trucks, and trains). A major player in Europe, Asia and North America, the Group designs, assembles, and supplies energy management systems based on cells that are among the most robust in the market and provides installation, commissioning, and maintenance on site and remotely. More than 4,500 buses and 145,000 LEV have been equipped with Forsee Power's batteries. The Group also offers financing solutions (battery leasing) and second-life solutions for transport batteries. Forsee Power and its 750 employees are committed to sustainable development and the Group has obtained the Gold medal from leading sustainability rating agency EcoVadis. For more information: | @ForseePower
CBC
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Westward by Josée Lafrenière
Social Sharing Josée Lafrenière has made the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for Westward. The winner of the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and their work will be published on CBC Books. The four remaining finalists will each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and have their work published on CBC Books. The shortlist will be announced on April 10 and the winner will be announced on April 17. If you're interested in other CBC Literary Prizes, the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize is currently accepting submissions. You can submit an original, unpublished poem or collection of poems from April 1-June 1. The 2026 CBC Short Story Prize will open in September and the 2026 CBC Nonfiction Prize will open in January. About Josée Lafrenière Josée Lafrenière is a Franco-Ontarian who now lives in Montreal and writes in English. She works as a freelance editor, copywriter and translator. Her fiction has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Headlight and the anthology Salut King Kong. Some pieces have also won the QWF-CBC Public's Choice Award and been shortlisted in the QWF-CBC contest and for the Prism International contest. Entry in five-ish words "Running away or toward?" The short story's source of inspiration "The main character here was a secondary character in an earlier story. I wondered what had happened to him. At the same time I was reading Denis Johnson's Train Dreams and I was also reflecting on how culture within a family line can disappear, based on my own family's history." First lines Smoke and dust refract the morning sun in the rail camp as Étienne Myre skulks out of the mess hall with cloth-wrapped sandwiches stowed in his pack. He stays behind the shanties and tents, skirting the walls, heading west. Sundays are the worst. Other days he works until night, under the stern eye of the rail boss, and then, in a belly-full stupor, drags himself to his cot to drop into sleep. But Sundays the Canadian Pacific gives them the day off for God and worship or drinking and whoring. He's tried them all. But as soon as his body stops moving, he's hounded by images: pennies on eyelids, crows cawing, a wailing infant. Check out the rest of the longlist The longlist was selected from more than 2,300 entries. A team of 12 writers and editors from across Canada compiled the list. The jury selects the shortlist and the eventual winner from the readers' longlisted selections. This year's jury is composed of Conor Kerr, Kudakwashe Rutendo and Michael Christie. The complete list is:
Axios
03-03-2025
- Business
- Axios
Portland vs. Seattle: 2 feuding food towns
Being in the Pacific Northwest, Portland and Seattle's culinary scenes have a lot in common. Zoom in: We're both big craft beer and coffee towns, have stellar wine countries, and prioritize locally-grown ingredients thanks to our access to farms and food producers. But who comes out on top? Meira's thought bubble: Portland's well-established food cart culture means you can have cuisines from around the world in just one pod. The city's commitment to fostering independent eateries also means we aren't bogged down by chains. Need I mention all the top marks we've gotten for our pizza, highly-executed tasting menu restaurants and plethora of vegan options? One more thing: No sales tax on your meal! Melissa's rebuttal: OK, so pioneering chef James Beard is literally from Portland, and your chefs have been trouncing us lately in his namesake awards. Fine. But one area where Seattle reigns supreme? Seafood. I'll raise you Local Tide, The Walrus and the Carpenter, RockCreek, Driftwood or Westward to whatever Portland can dredge up from the depths of the Willamette River. Case in point: While you can find Dungeness crab off the coast of Oregon, it's named after the town of Dungeness in Washington for a reason. Meira's final thought: Bragging about a $30 bowl of chowder? Yeah, you can keep it. Advantage: Portland.
Yahoo
19-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Zelensky deserves credit for his miraculous leadership, not Maga scorn
Is Donald Trump preparing a sordid betrayal of Ukraine that hands the Kremlin victory and rewards Putin's aggression? If you count victory as getting away with stealing another country's land, then yes – Putin is set to retain control of the 22 per cent of Ukraine that he has already occupied, expanding the territory of the Russian Federation by less than half a percent. But in every other sense, Putin's war on Ukraine has turned out to be a humiliating defeat. Putin invaded to bring Ukraine under his heel and prevent Kyiv's inexorable Westward drift. In this, he has totally failed. Ukrainians – including Russian-speaking Ukrainians like Zelensky – hate Putin with a passion and are strongly committed to becoming a prosperous European democracy. Putin has won Donbas and Crimea, but lost Ukraine at vast cost in blood and treasure. Compared to that strategic defeat the land is unimportant, however obnoxiously Putin will crow over it. The Soviet-style victory march that he will inevitably stage will be a sickening sight. But the pomp of the Kremlin's bluster will be an attempt to disguise the humiliating truth that Russia has been proved to be very much not the great power of Putin's fantasies. Small Ukraine fought an aggressor with four times its population, twenty times its economy and nuclear weapons to boot to a standstill. As the Ukrainians joke, 'we used to think that Russia was the second army in the world – but now we know it's the second army in Ukraine.' In the meantime Russia has become an economic vassal of China, has lost its strategic control of Europe's gas markets, a million of Russia's brightest and best have emigrated, and it has blown up any possibility of foreign investment by robbing foreigners foolish enough not to flee from their businesses. Putin has totally lost his soft power over his Central Asian neighbours and his pseudo-colony in Syria. His only remaining true allies are the Taliban, the Iranians and North Koreans. The BBC's brilliant Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg put his finger on it last December when he asked Putin whether he had done a good job of preserving Russia. The truth is that he's diminished and weakened it. As for betrayal of Ukraine, I have never met anybody in the Presidential administration on Bankova Street in Kyiv, nor any official in Washington who ever seriously thought that Ukraine would actually get their lost land back. That was a necessary fiction of the kind that needs to be told in wars. The minute Zelensky starts to talk about compromise, the troops in the trenches lose their motivation to fight on. Trump's naked grab for Ukraine's supposedly great rare earth assets is undoubtedly distasteful (though it was in fact the Ukrainians themselves who began this narrative last November). Even more obnoxious is Trump's suggestion that Zelensky was somehow to blame for starting the war – which Trump crassly described as a 'conflict' rather than an unprovoked Russian invasion. But the Trump team is at least chucking out some foolish, empty pieties. NATO membership for Ukraine? Was never going to happen – not politically, not militarily, not even legally. Reconquest? You want it, you are going to have to take it. And Europeans – please spare us your histrionics about Chamberlain in Munich. If Europe had been serious about sanctioning Russia, they would have stopped buying Russian gas – which even now still accounts for 20 per cent of the EU's supply, and growing. Anyone still talking about fighting on and pushing out the Kremlin's troops is merely virtue signalling and writing cheques in someone else's blood. As Ukrainian military intelligence chief Kyrillo Budanov recently warned a closed session of parliament, there is a very real chance of a military collapse as Kyiv runs out of manpower. For all his rancour and ignorance, Trump has the best chance of bringing the war to an end – and in the process saving Ukraine from an even worse defeat. What Ukraine has achieved in the field is not a defeat but a major military miracle. Like the Finns in the Winter War of 1939-40, they have emerged from a death struggle with Moscow with their independence and pride intact. Both Finland and Ukraine lost around a quarter of their territory to Russian invaders. But as long as Ukraine remains free and firmly in the Western camp, it will be they who won and Putin who lost. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
