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Opinion: Why Buffett Bet A Billion On Solar: Miles Per Acre Per Year

Green Car Congress

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. Coal still supplies more power in the US than anything else, with natural gas next. Agua Caliente PV Plant: Yuma Arizona.

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EV ute overload: The electric pickups coming soon

EV Central

Being built at a new Gigafactory in Austin Texas, first US Cybertruck deliveries are scheduled for production late in 2023, having been delayed on multiple occasions. In 2021 Toyota inked a deal with the company to supply the 70-Series EVs to mining companies. Will it come to Australia? We’re watching on with interest.

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LIVE BLOG: 2023 Tesla Investor Day

Teslarati

17:19 CST – The Tesla execs noted that the company’s Heat Pump assembly highlighted supply chain issues. 17:14 CST – Tesla is also working with suppliers closer to their factories to decrease transportation time and reduce diesel use throughout the supply chain. Fantastic progress by @elonmusk here in Austin, TX.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

Cars That Think

Vital to this “point and shoot” capability was a new film—one that would develop while exposed to light and so eliminate the tear-away covers of previous Polaroid films. Exposure control Automatic metering of the light entering the camera’s lens and striking the film. Cambridge, Mass.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Electric cars in the garages would double as battery packs for when energy supplies are scarce. Dimming the Lights to Meet Demand About Green Inc.

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