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Wednesday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› New electric life given to buses at Central Florida firm
Electric transportation is arriving everywhere. Brightline of Florida is developing high-speed train service between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, Correct Craft of Orlando offers a line of water-sport boats, a German firm plans to open a port at Lake Nona for flying taxis, and new Lymmo buses circulate in Orlando’s core – with all of the above powered by electricity.
› Universal Orlando’s Epic Universe theme park starts to rise up
Ten months after Universal resumed work on its third Orlando theme park, Epic Universe, the first visible signs of the development have risen from the ground. But Universal remains tight-lipped about progress on the much-anticipated development as theme park fans take to the internet to speculate about the progress of Orlando’s first major attraction built in the social media age.
› CycleBar fitness club shuts down as members say their credit cards were charged for services they can’t use
Not long ago, fitness enthusiasts at CycleBar Boca were furiously working out on exercise bicycles, led by pumped-up instructors pushing them to go harder. Then on Jan. 3, the club in Boca Raton abruptly shut down — just weeks after the closures of two other CycleBars owned by the same franchisee in Doral and Weston. As surprising as the closure was to members and employees, what happened next felt like a blow to the gut: Over the next couple days, some members discovered that their credit cards were charged for an upcoming month of classes they have no way of attending.
› Tesla developer files construction plans for unnamed EV dealership
A developer of Tesla dealerships submitted plans to the city Jan. 14 for an electric vehicle sales center in Atlantic North in Jacksonville. That’s the site where landowner Sleiman Enterprises wants to designate land for an electric vehicle sales showroom and service bays that industry sources suspect is Tesla Inc.
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