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Rivian’s Amazon EV delivery van will drop packages in 100 cities by end of 2022

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by the end of the year, including Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. CEO Elon Musk recently advised the company to cut costs in any way possible or it could face potential closure. That affordability threshold is very important,” Musk said in June. “It

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How To Reduce EV Charging Station Costs

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Unfortunately, many assume the costs of installing and maintaining EV stations would make them unviable for their business. There are many ways to make installing EV charging stations affordable. We’ll be covering some of the most common forms of each cost-reduction method.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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Moore is best known for his 1965 prediction, which would become known as Moore’s Law : the observation that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would grow exponentially while the retail cost of computers would decrease. His projection came true over the decade that followed. After earning his Ph.D.,

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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In Jules Verne’s 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon , members of the fictitious Baltimore Gun Club, all disabled Civil War veterans, restlessly search for a new enemy to conquer. Such low-tech activity prostheses and body-powered prostheses perform astonishingly well, for a tiny fraction of the cost of bionic hands.

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Hyperloop: An Engineering Marvel or An Elite Day Dream

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We already discussed the cost of building a hyperloop but haven’t discussed the price we have to pay. Hyperloop: How Much Do The Tickets Cost? Musk claimed in his Hyperloop Alpha paper that his LA-San Francisco route could be built for one-tenth the cost of a high-speed rail option. ” Now the real question.

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