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Contradictorily, the company maintains that it’s older design is safe and has not yet called for a mass “recall”. Ola’s single-sided front suspension is sourced from Gabriel which also happens to supply many established OEMs.Ola Electric offers front suspension upgrade option for its customersOla Electric’s front suspension upgrade comes after the company repeatedly faced slack for having a faulty front suspension which has led to the front wheel snapping off the body of the vehicle leading to near-fatal incidents. The…

Four years after a second 737 MAX crashed, Boeing Co. BA -4.38% and attorneys for families of the dead are arguing over whether the plane maker should have to pay for the victims’ suffering.Boeing attorneys say the crash victims died instantaneously when the Ethiopian Airlines jet slammed into the ground. They argue in court documents that any pain and suffering they may have felt before impact aren’t legally relevant for calculating damages. Plaintiffs’ attorneys want…

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost sued Norfolk Southern Corp. NSC 0.22% , seeking to hold the company financially responsible for the train derailment in East Palestine. The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Ohio on Tuesday, sought civil penalties, damages, court costs and other relief for the Feb. 3 incident, which led to the derailment of 38 cars, including 11 tankers…

A recent cargo train derailment. Photo: Bill Lackey/Springfield-News Sun/Associated Press The…

A fatal incident occurred as a Norfolk Southern train moved through a crossing at the Cleveland-Cliffs Cleveland Works steel plant. Photo: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg News…

Officials on Sunday were investigating what caused a Norfolk Southern Corp. NSC -0.10% train to leave a track near Springfield, Ohio, in the company’s second derailment in the state in recent weeks.  Unlike the Feb. 3 derailment near East Palestine, Ohio, which spilled toxic chemicals, no hazardous materials were aboard the train that went off track on Saturday, officials said.  About 20 of the train’s 212 cars derailed…

The Arlington, Va.-based plane maker has said the large wide-body plane won’t be delivered to customers until 2025. Among Mr. Calhoun’s goals when he became CEO in January 2020 was to get the 777X approved by regulators and into airline service by the end of 2023, while ramping up production and deliveries. “It is clear that this goal will not be met, albeit for reasons largely beyond Mr. Calhoun’s control,” Boeing said in its annual proxy statement, filed Friday with securities regulators. The filing said the board’s…

The freight railcar that federal investigators say likely caused last month’s derailment in Ohio was handed off among four railroads before its fateful trip and was owned by a fifth company, according to documents and people familiar with the railcar’s history and journey.The story of the railcar, which was destroyed in a fiery wreck on Feb. 3 in East Palestine, a small town near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, illustrates the challenges that federal investigators have in understanding the cause of and factors that…

For years, the U.S. Postal Service has faced competition from the likes of United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp. To fight them off, it hired outside trucking companies at cut-rate prices, required them to meet aggressive schedules and then looked the other way when they ran afoul of highway safety rules, a Wall Street Journal investigation found.The result has been deadly. Postal contractors have been involved in at least 68 fatal crashes that killed 79…

Electric-car maker Tesla Inc. TSLA 0.24% plans to build a manufacturing plant in the northern Mexican industrial hub of Monterrey, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday. Mr. López Obrador, who spoke several times in recent days with Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, added at his morning press conference that details of the investment would be made known Wednesday.…