Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2017

Over the past three years, GM and Honda have been collaborating on next-generation fuel cell and hydrogen storage systems, aiming at commercialization in the 2020 time frame. Mass production of fuel cell systems is expected to begin around 2020 and create nearly 100 new jobs. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

JANUARY 23, 2023

At liftoff, Starship’s 33 Raptor engines will produce up to 7590 tons (16.7M The company almost always preferred to build, test, and learn from minimum-viable-product prototypes as quickly as possible, even if that meant that failures were guaranteed. lbs) fully loaded.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Su Yan, responsible for data reception for the landing at Miyun ground station , in Beijing, was waiting—nervously and in silence with her team—for vital signals indicating that optical, laser, and microwave sensors had combined effectively with rocket engines for a soft landing. The landing also prefigured grander Chinese lunar ambitions.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida—a cavernous structure built in the 1960s for constructing the Apollo program’s Saturn V rockets and, later, for preparing the space shuttle—the agency’s next big rocket is taking shape. RS-25 engines developed for the shuttle mounted on its base.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

But very few consumers will come up with BrightDrop , the name GM has given to a new unit that builds electric commercial vehicles: full-size vans and even electric cargo containers. Thus, the restructured GM was composed of Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac, while the Hummer, Pontiac, Saab and Saturn brands died.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

33 Raptor 2 engines power Starship’s Super Heavy booster – also more than any other rocket. Even then, Musk reported in mid-2020 that the marginal cost of a Falcon 9 launch was $15 million – impressively low but still a vivid demonstration of just how far Starship has to go. lbf) of thrust at sea level.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In theory, it would have been able to launch up to 300 tons (660,000 lb) to low Earth orbit (LEO) – twice the payload of Saturn V, the next most capable rocket. The principles of the rocket, its general shape and layout, and the Raptor engine powering it remained the same.

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