Teslarati

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Founded in late 2020, Varda Space says its mission “is to build the first space factory” – or, to be more precise, the first all-in-one space factory. That means that manifest a Photon-based satellite on a SpaceX rideshare could likely cut the cost of buying and launching a new satellite in half – and maybe further.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

Energy storage installations around the world will multiply exponentially, from a modest 9GW/17GWh deployed as of 2018 to 1,095GW/2,850GWh by 2040, according to the latest forecast from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF). In the near term, renewables-plus-storage, especially solar-plus-storage, has become a major driver for battery build.

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Teslarati

APRIL 18, 2021

The Boring Company’s Las Vegas Convention Center Loop has been completed, and as with every other project from Elon Musk, the initiative has attracted a barrage of criticism from skeptics, some of whom have ridiculed and mocked the transport tunnel system. Credit: The Boring Company ). And these are just from some publications.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A SpaceX executive says that the company’s next-generation, full-reusable Starship rocket has already secured multiple commercial launch contracts. As of today, SpaceX’s Falcon rockets have become a spectacularly successful revolution in cost-effective launch through reusability and vertical integration, among other things.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

The two companies have agreed to collaborate on the following activities: Introduction of V2G services in the European market; Exploring the use of second-life EV batteries for stationary applications (including households, buildings, grid); and. Designing and evaluating potential affordable energy and mobility pack offers.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

But other Chinese automakers, including state-run companies that were later entrants to the EV race, have closed the gap on sub-USD 10,000 EVs at the Beijing auto show that began Thursday. Last year, BYD shocked the automotive industry with the release of its Seagull EV, now priced under USD 10,000, at the Shanghai auto show.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

You now have hundreds, thousands of different entities, whether it is a municipal government, a retail shop owner, or someone who manages parking garages or a utility or someone else who has to make decision about well, what are we going to do, how are we going to build this infrastructure? ” —Felix Kramer, founder, CalCars.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 5, 2023

Moore is best known for his 1965 prediction, which would become known as Moore’s Law : the observation that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would grow exponentially while the retail cost of computers would decrease. He became not only a visionary but also our coach, pushing us to build the impossible.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The KPMG study, “Expect the Unexpected: Building Business Value in a Changing World”, explores issues such as climate change, energy and fuel volatility, water availability and cost and resource availability, as well as population growth spawning new urban centers. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge.

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Plug In India

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

By Kamlesh & Raphae Every major automaker has announced plans to build Lithium-Ion battery gigafactories. The aim is to build batteries at a large scale to reduce prices. Tesla, VW, BYD, Ford and others have plans to build giant gigafactories. If the batteries were 30-40% cheaper, that would reduce the costs of EV’s.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Commercial EVs have been on the job for years now, at dozens of companies, in just about every conceivable use case, and they’ve proven that they can do the job better, quieter, more safely and above all, cheaper. Rustam Kocher: I think it’s going to be an issue for any company that has a large battery pack. Rustam Kocher: It is.

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Teslarati

MARCH 1, 2023

From Elon Musk’s Master Plan Part 3, details on the company’s third-generation platform, and discussions on how Tesla could each extreme scale, Investor Day promises to be an event that is one for the books. Elon Musk has emphasized that Investor Day is really a lot bigger than the company’s shareholders.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E’s first solicitation, announced earlier this year, was highly competitive and resulted in awarding $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Earlier post.)

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

Where do I look for the right EV charging station installation company? Your charger mediates a high quantity of electricity from your house or apartment building into your car. Reputable installation companies will give you a copy of your charger’s compliance certificate. You don’t want to risk that.

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Wallbox

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Where do I look for the right EV charging station installation company? Your charger mediates a high quantity of electricity from your house or apartment building into your car. Reputable installation companies will give you a copy of your charger’s compliance certificate. You don’t want to risk that.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each. Details of the 28 companies awarded a total of $4.2

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Now, researchers from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), collaborating with UCLA and UC Berkeley researchers, suggest that the US can retrofit diesel-electric trains with batteries in a way that is cost-competitive with diesel. The social cost of carbon emissions starts at US$125?t

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. The cost of shifting from rescue operations to border enforcement may be harder journeys for migrants and the deaths of some. Meanwhile, the European Union spends at least €2 billion (US $2.13

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 19, 2009

A bus company on the Isle of Wight has launched its own version of the car scrappage scheme, offering motorists free travel on its buses for a year in exchange for their old banger. Many families feel the need for one car, but the second one is a marginal purchase, often something cheap and cheerful.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

Armed with dozens of patents and sophisticated tools, Wildcat’s team of scientists has spent the past decade partnering with other companies to use its advanced techniques to help them accelerate battery development. While nickel isn’t [as expensive as] cobalt, nickel isn’t as cheap as some others.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 20, 2023

Harry’s 200-unit condominium building in Minneapolis, Minn., They rejected my request to allow cyclists to hose off their bikes in the alley behind the building, which cost nothing. One company, Atom Power, just might have the solution everyone is looking for. The first hurdle is the installation cost.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. Where the alternative fuel cannot be used directly in existing oil distribution networks and applications, it requires the build-up of a dedicated infrastructure. World transportation oil demand by mode in the New Policies Scenario. Click to enlarge. —WEO 2011.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

G20 countries build a generous Green Climate Fund, well above the $100-billion-a-year goal in the Paris climate agreement. Petro-states are compensated to transition smoothly to a sustainable economy, avoiding a last-ditch attempt to flood the world with cheap oil and gas. Big green deal. ?This Geopolitical friction is low.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 26, 2006

until Japanese companies began selling them in 1999. agencies and companies. In the basement of his school's engineering building, Dr. Frank and his students tinker with sport-utility vehicles. Hybrid automobiles work with two engines. The current top seller is Toyota Motor Corp.'s Their first move with a Ford Motor Co.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

ACORE is an organization of member companies and institutions that are dedicated to moving renewable energy into the mainstream of America’s economy. Who is going to take the lead on building the transmission capability that is needed: private industry, states or the federal government? Schisms or “Areas of Concern”.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The Information reports that SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell “will assume oversight” of the company’s Starship program and Starbase facilities, seemingly stepping in for Elon Musk as the CEO shifts his focus to Twitter.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Companies like the Manufacturing Technology Centre are revolutionizing the designs of additive manufactured parts by first building simulation apps from COMSOL models, allowing them to share their analyses with different teams and explore new manufacturing opportunities with their own customers.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

SOURCE: GARTNER Fortunately, we have access to an information storage technology that is cheap, readily available, and stable at room temperature for millennia: DNA , the material of genes. Organizations around the world are already taking the first steps toward building a DNA drive that can both write and read DNA data.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Installation is separate (and costs can vary widely), and GM has partnered with Qmerit, a national EV charging installation company, to make it easier for customers to find an installer. That’s important, because the system isn’t cheap. The systems can be bought separately or bundled together for $7,299.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

In addition, it is subject to similar refining, storage and distribution costs currently associated with petrol and diesel, including upstream CO2 emissions where the electricity required is usually generated from fossil fuels. Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 19, 2023

Electrifying a vehicle fleet is a complex undertaking that requires specialized skills and resources that most companies don’t have. A growing number of companies, including vehicle OEMs and specialist startups, are responding to this demand by offering charging-as-a-service. Paul Gioupis: I started off in the EV industry in 1998.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In the last article we discussed ‘How to win the EV race’ as a company and today we are going to look at ‘How a Country can win the Electrification Race ‘ and get the most out of It. The countries may have to give incentives or other resources to the companies that venture into the R&D of EVs.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities. Wang Chuan-Fu started BYD (the letters are the initials of the companys Chinese name) in 1995 in Shenzhen, China.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 11, 2022

Coincidentally, both companies soon after underwent a corporate restructuring, but whereas the changes at Fairchild benefited its SX-70 team, those at TI nearly cost it everything. He then visited several companies that made polyimide interconnect film, contracted with 3M as a supplier, and persuaded West-Bond Inc.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

Designing the next great chips In the late 1970s, MOS Technology was a successful semiconductor company; its engineers had designed the popular 6502 microprocessor, and it manufactured several other solidly selling products. We tried to get a feel for what these companies could do in the future by extrapolating from their current technology.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

EVs ain’t cheap Price is another EV purchase risk that is comparable to EV range. How long GM will be able to keep that price in the face of battery cost increases and inflationary pressure, is anyone’s guess. Buying a new car is the second most expensive purchase a consumer makes behind buying a house.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The company claims you can even get 50 miles per gallon, but full development is still underway. Adura Systems claims it can pull off that feat with its MESA power train for buses that the company hopes to commercially release next year. China also has 40 bus companies compared to four in the U.S.

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