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BYD wins order for another 406 electric buses in Bogotá, Colombia

Green Car Congress

BYD entered the Colombian market in 2012 and made several milestone achievements: building the first pure electric taxi fleet in South America in 2013, entering the Bogotá BRT system in 2017. —Lara Zhang, Regional Director of BYD Latin America.

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SpaceX sleuths spot third drone ship under construction in Louisiana

Teslarati

SpaceX is building a third droneship, but where is it? Probably ships next summer — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 28, 2018. As such, it’s entirely possible that one of SpaceX’s three drone ships will immediately head for the Panama Canal as soon as ASOG is ready to enter the fleet.

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SpaceX closes in on West Coast Starlink launches with lease for drone ship dock space

Teslarati

SpaceX has a bit of a sordid history with port leases over the last several years after twice entering and backing out of Port of Los Angeles (San Pedro) lease agreements to build a Starship factory directly on the water in 2018 and 2020.

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Gigantism Is a Never-Ending Temptation for Engineers and Designers

Cars That Think

Technically, it would have been possible, but such a ship would not fit through the Suez or Panama canals, and its draft would limit its operation to just a few ports. Seven tankers exceeded 500,000 dwt, but their lives were short, and nobody has built a million-dwt tanker.

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