Things I learned lately 25 Aug

• Trump is the first former president with a mug shot.
• The Hudson's Bay store in Banff has closed its door forever.
• Lotus now makes an EV - The Eletre. It’s an SUV rated at a meagre 900hp (R model, Euro spec). 350kW fast charge capability. Made in partnership with China’s Geely brand.
• The Cadillac Lyriq EV and the Acura ZDX EV are basically the same SUV, the Acura making use of the new GM EV platform.
• Walmart will be experimenting with drone delivery in a small part of Dallas.
• Netflix is finally closing down their original DVD rental business. Anyone with a DVD is being told to keep it.
• There are a lot of EV models available today. I knew there were quite a few, but I had no idea just how many. What was even more surprising was the separate, longer list of EVs only available in China. This wikipedia article lists them all
• The 6 hottest small SUV EVs: Mach-E; Ioniq 5; Model Y; ID.4; Q4 e-Tron; EV-6.
• The US Army has a climate change strategy that includes electrifying light combat vehicles and establishing self-sustaining electrical micro-grids that don’t use fossil fuel or depend on the national grid.