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LA GRANDE — Several Union County graduating seniors and current college students received academic scholarships ranging from $2,500 to $5,000 from Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative.
The battle is on every time Ultra4 Racing hits the road, and this past weekend was no different as the organization behind King of the Hammers started their 2021 regional season out in Moab, Utah. Kicked off at the tail-end of this year s Easter Jeep Safari, great weather and over 100 racers, including big names like the Campbell and Gomez Brothers crews, Loren Healey and Vaughn Gittin Jr. of Team Fun-Haver, and other Nitto standouts like Cody Addington, Paul Horschel and Bailey Cole, made for an amazing weekend of wheel-to-wheel racing at the King Shocks Area BFE Beatdown!
The first event of the 2021 Ultra4 Western Series, the King Shocks Area BFE Beatdown, was held April 1st through the 3rd at Area BFE, a well-known, privately-owned property just south of Moab, Utah that offers 625 acres of off-road adventure. While Ultra4 raced on the property last September, this year s course took on some different obstacles for a 6-mile loop through sand washes, gnarly rocks and sharp 180s.
Electric Pickup Truck With Swappable Batteries: Meet The Toyota EVE ++ It’s a 4Runner with a Nissan Leaf motor and battery modules.
Kyle Seggelin loves rock crawling. For a long time, he had been doing so before his 1989 Toyota 4Runner’s engine overheated at the beginning of 2021. That was the right time for him to make an electric pickup truck for rock crawling and compete at the 2021 “
King Of The Hammers’” new EV-only category. Seggelin ingeniously made that: with swappable battery modules.
The competition was just an additional push toward a plan Seggelin had for a long time.
“Rock crawling specifically is also well suited to electric drive, where low-end torque is desired over sustained high output. You can have fun all day in a rock crawler and never go farther than a 5-mile radius from camp or go over 20 mph.”
The Twentynine Palms City Council will gather this evening and, for the first time in months, the proceedings will be open to the public, though face masks and social distancing are still required. Reporter Heather Clisby has details…
Tonight, the Twentynine Palms City Council will meet with an open door to the public. The council will discuss and likely approve a county contract for the Project Phoenix wastewater system.
To avoid confusion, the council will consider changing the name of the Community Services Building to Luckie Park Activity Center, and the new facility at the Project Phoenix site to the Twentynine Palms Community Center.