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Tesla Cybertruck can power your home with Powershare for ~$4000 installation cost

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Tesla Cybertruck can power your home with its new Powershare product, but we are now starting to get an idea of the cost. The installation alone is about $4000.

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European HEFT project seeks lower-cost, more efficient and power-dense PM emotor for EVs

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A new €4-million research project funded by the EU is seeking to develop a lower-cost, more efficient and power-dense permanent magnet eMotor for electric vehicles (EVs). The consortium of eight European partners in the HEFT project is led by Mondragan University and includes GKN Automotive.

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ORNL team develops low-cost scalable method to join materials in solid-state batteries; electrochemical pulse

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Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a scalable, low-cost method to improve the joining of materials in solid-state batteries, resolving one of the big challenges in the commercial development of safe, long-lived energy storage systems. Credit: Andy Sproles/ORNL, US DOE.

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I just bought a super-cheap electric bike from China. It was a bad idea

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Say hello to the Mihogo Mini, an ultra-low-cost electric bike direct from China. It was a bad idea appeared first on Electrek. And that’s exactly the story of my latest weird little e-bike purchase. more… The post I just bought a super-cheap electric bike from China.

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5 Big Ideas for High-Temperature Superconductors

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As with the other HTS applications, cryogenic cooling boosts costs, as does the need for strong mechanical structures to withstand the Lorentz forces generated by and on the magnet coils. Since then, research has lagged due to the high cost of the materials. tesla magnetic field in 2014.

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Elon Musk shares ideas for one of Twitter’s potential monetization strategies

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Elon Musk has not presented a detailed plan as to how he would run Twitter, but he sure has shared a number of ideas. “Twitter will always be free for casual users, but maybe a slight cost for commercial/government users,” Musk wrote. . Musk, however, clarified that these charges would not be affecting casual Twitter users.

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NASA to fly payload with SpinLaunch’s mass accelerator to test low-cost, high-cadence kinetic launch system

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The velocity boost provided by the accelerator’s electric drive results in a 4x reduction in the fuel required to reach orbit, a 10x reduction in cost, and the ability to launch multiple times per day. Through this unique approach, SpinLaunch is providing a fundamentally new way to access space.

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