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Rivian Amazon delivery vans catching on fire while charging: reports


EV fires, while severe, aren’t as common as some naysayers predicted when electric power first started gaining popularity. So when a pattern in EV fires starts to emerge — say, when Rivian vans keep catching fire at Amazon distribution centers — one starts to wonder why.

Satellite imagery shows Hurricane Beryl's destructive path across multiple Caribbean island chains where the Category 4 storm first made landfall this week. Mexico's top tourist destinations were on red alert as Hurricane Beryl strengthened to a Category 3 storm on Thursday evening after leaving behind a deadly trail of destruction across several Caribbean islands. Beryl was packing winds up to 115 mph (185 kph) as it beared down on the Yucatan peninsula's eastern coast early Friday, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC), which warned of a dangerous storm surge and damaging waves.

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