Minnesota's Electric Vehicles Meet Their Real Test in January
Cold cuts range, slows charging and changes driver behavior. The state's charging network is being built, belatedly, for the weather it actually has.
Automotive
Automotive & Energy
How the region drives, charges, heats and powers itself through a Minnesota winter.
AutomotiveThe Grid Held Last Winter. Planners Are Not Reassured.
Minnesota's electricity system is shifting from a summer-peaking to a winter-stressed resource, and the margin on the coldest mornings is narrowing.
AutomotiveA Freight Bottleneck North of the City Slows Half a Continent
Two rail lines converge in a corridor built for a smaller volume of traffic. The fix is expensive, jurisdictionally complicated, and increasingly unavoidable.