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SpaceX bests Boeing to become NASA’s largest for-profit vendor

Teslarati

In 2014, NASA contracted with SpaceX and Boeing to independently develop spacecraft capable of safely transporting astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS), taking over the role the Space Shuttle and Russian Soyuz spacecraft filled from 2000 to 2020. Operational launches began in November 2020.

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In the Caribbean, EVs leave ICE vehicles behind

Electric Auto Association

People feel more comfortable buying a car they know can be serviced and repaired.” “The Thirty years of solar White, a residential architect for 40 of the 50 years he has lived on St. “I White installed a solar system in his home by 1992, and when the next Category 5 hurricane struck in 1995, “We had back-up.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

Cars That Think

Stanley Whittingham [from left] shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Jonas Ekstromer/AFP/Getty Images In the early 1970s, Exxon scientists predicted that global oil production would peak in the year 2000 and then fall into a steady decline. All three, however, shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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DOT, EPA unveil joint proposal for fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission standards: 49.6 mpg CAFE, 163 g/mile GHG in 2025; flexibilities and incentives

Green Car Congress

new vehicle technology will add, on average, about $2000 for consumers who buy a new vehicle in MY. Such technologies might include solar panels on hybrids, adaptive cruise control or. In the CAFE program for MYs 2017–2019, the fuel economy of. The agencies also project that higher costs for. active aerodynamics.