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July 19, 2022
2 Teslas are the first-ever electric vehicles to reach the Mount Everest Base Camp (video)
Even 5 years back no one would’ve imagined an electric vehicle reaching anywhere near the world’s tallest peak Mount Everest (Mount Qomolangma in Chinese), but the ever-expanding network of Tesla Superchargers has made it possible. A Model X and a Model Y have reached the Mount Everest Base Camp, with...
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July 19, 2022
REI Path Ahead Ventures Launches Navigate Accelerator Program
REI Path Ahead Ventures is launching its Navigate accelerator program, with an inaugural cohort of six companies. Path Ahead Ventures partners with founders of color as they further their growth in the outdoor industry. The 16-week Navigate program will bring founders together in-person and online to provide funding, mentorship, curated programming...
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July 18, 2022
In the Wake of Historic Flooding, Yellowstone Will Rebuild
Engineers will account for climate change as they design replacement highways along the rivers in and to Yellowstone National Park. Their permanent replacement could take three to five years to complete, in what some have said could be a billion-dollar undertaking. Engineers are looking at realigning roads that the rivers...
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July 18, 2022
Keystone RV workers given notice of plant closure in Goshen
Some 150 workers at a Keystone RV plant in Goshen learned they will be out of work in September. Employees were given a letter Monday morning. Despite information coming from employees, Keystone has not yet offered a response. WSBT
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July 16, 2022
Marcus Lemonis to co-star in movie about Jeff Bezos
Camping World and Good Sam Club CEO Marcus Lemonis has taken a break from his role as a corporate leader to star in a new movie “Bezos”, which documents Jeff Bezos’ founding days of Amazon and is the first movie made about Amazon’s beginnings. It’s Lemonis’ debut role in a...
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July 15, 2022
Dometic’s Q2 Sees 53% Jump in Sales
RV and outdoor appliance and accessory maker Dometic reported sales during the second quarter of $802.1 million, a 53 percent jump over the same quarter a year ago. It saw a profit of $78.05 million, according to online currency conversion tables. RV Pro
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July 13, 2022
Patagonia to pay $55,000 after allegedly violating Seattle scheduling law
Outdoor retailer Patagonia will pay nearly $55,000 to current and former Seattle retail employees after allegedly failing to post their schedules with enough notice. Seattle’s secure scheduling law requires large retail and food service companies to post hourly employees’ schedules at least two weeks in advance, pay employees when the company...
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July 13, 2022
Main Street Capital Investment Includes PPL Motorhomes
Main Street Capital Corporation has announced that it recently invested a total of $19.5 million in three existing lower middle market portfolio companies, PPL RVs Inc. (PPL Motorhomes), Centre Technologies Holdings LLC and Nebraska Vet AcquireCo LLC, dba Heritage Vet Partners, P.C. RV News
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July 13, 2022
The Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias Will Survive Current Raging Fire
The Washburn Fire is burning through areas of Yosemite National Park, just south of Yosemite Valley. As of Tuesday evening, the fire had consumed roughly 3,500 acres. The Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias, trees more than 3,000 years old, has areas within the footprint of the fire, causing many ecologists...
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July 13, 2022
Meet the all-electric RV startup steered by Tesla alumni
What started as a pet project to electrify food trucks in the San Francisco Bay area — an enterprise inspired by the cacophony of generators that greeted Ben Parker every day during his lunch break at Tesla — has evolved into a much larger, complex and potentially more lucrative undertaking....
