Teslarati
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
CEO Elon Musk has stated that Starship reuse will eventually take hours, enabling multiple flights per day for each ship and booster and dropping the marginal cost of each launch to just a few million dollars. SpaceX) Further to the contrary, SpaceX’s Starbase factory is already building multiple intentionally-expendable Starships.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 30, 2017
The co-developed new generation stack builds on the compact size and high-performance of Honda’s current generation stack in the Clarity ( earlier post ) by achieving significant cost reductions. Earlier post.). FCSM will operate within GM’s existing battery pack manufacturing facility site in Brownstown, Michigan, south of Detroit.
Teslarati
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
If successful, the fully-reusable rocket will be able to launch at least five times the payload of SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket for even less than the smaller rocket’s already extraordinary marginal cost of ~$15 million.
Plugs and Cars
DECEMBER 22, 2006
Hybrid doubters — who once railed that the batteries were sketchy, the costs of the so-called hybrid premium unrecoverable, the mileage gains overstated, and so on — are beginning to look like the Flat Earth Society. Electric motors are clean, lightweight, maintenance-free and powerful.
Plug In Partners
JANUARY 26, 2006
In the basement of his school's engineering building, Dr. Frank and his students tinker with sport-utility vehicles. Saturn and a 200-horsepower electric motor. That was the Explorer's downfall last year in an annual contest held by the Department of Energy to see which American university could build the most efficient-running car.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Its like having a second fuel tank that you always use first -- only you fill up at home, from a regular outlet, at an equivalent cost of under $1/gallon. They reinforce the Pacific National Labs January 2007 findings that we wont have to build new power plants for cars that charge at night. You dont have to plug it in.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal. Establishing dealer network. Batteries not ready.
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