Green Car Congress
JULY 2, 2021
The city of Moscow, Russia is halting the purchase of diesel buses for its passenger transport fleet. Starting this year, by the decision of the Mayor of Moscow, we will not buy diesel buses, except for transportation in a special mode. The production of electric buses in Moscow will significantly reduce their cost.
Teslarati
OCTOBER 5, 2022
The adoption of electric vehicles has continued to skyrocket over the past several years despite challenging supply chain conditions, less-than-ideal geopolitical scenarios, lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the soaring cost of EV materials. Costs will continue to remain high, and wait times will stay long if U.S.
Cars That Think
MAY 17, 2023
The war between Russia and Ukraine is making a lot of high-tech military systems look like so many gold-plated irrelevancies. In early May, Russia attributed explosions at the Kremlin to drones sent by Ukraine for the purpose of assassinating Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader. I don’t buy that drones will transform all of warfare.
Teslarati
OCTOBER 12, 2021
While far from the commercial orbital laboratory many at NASA would like to paint it as, the joint NASA-Russia International Space Station (ISS) routinely hosts payloads from paying customers, some of which are focused on manufacturing (albeit at an absurdly low volume) materials that can only be made in microgravity (i.e.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 24, 2015
The fundamental equation that drives any country or company’s ability to survive in the oil industry is: (Oil Price per Barrel − Cost Per Barrel) × Barrels Produced + Cash Reserves > 0. Most analysts estimate that cost per barrel for US shale companies ranges from the mid-fifties to the low nineties.
EV Connect
MAY 16, 2022
While some of this discrepancy could be accounted for by the theory that those who can afford to buy an EV and have the desire to do so might have been more likely to have white-collar jobs capable of going remote without damaging their paycheck too much, it’s unlikely that this explains the entire gap. But it’s not that easy.
Cars That Think
JULY 26, 2023
Before we launch into this episode, I’d like to let listeners know that the cost of membership in IEEE is currently 50% off for the rest of the year. I mean, when I go and I buy a ladder at the big-box hardware store, if I fall off of it because it’s faulty, there’s somebody I can sue. They really buy into what their lords tell them.”
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