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This $680 4-seater electric swan boat makes my own Chinese e-boat look luxurious

Baua Electric

But after buying an ultra-cheap Chinese electric boat last year , this new one makes my own lazy lake cruiser look like a luxury yacht. The design is certainly… intriguing. I’m no stranger to collecting weird Alibaba electric vehicles, and that includes aquatic vessels. And that’s after my boat cost nearly twice as much!

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SpaceX’s backup Dragon launch pad on track for 2023 debut

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They arose because NASA reportedly told SpaceX it was worried that the company’s first Florida Starship launch site – colocated at the only pad currently able to launch SpaceX Dragon spacecraft – could add too much risk. Richard Angle) SpaceX’s answer to the problem was about as simple, elegant, and cheap as possible.

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How I turned a shipping container into a solar off-grid charging station with A/C

Baua Electric

It’s more expensive since you’re paying for a pre-designed and engineered solution, but damn if it doesn’t make it easy! With 1,200W of theoretical power (and probably more like 900W of solid real-world Florida solar energy), that would be a decent flow rate. And the answer is to hopefully give them better wind protection.

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Blue Origin scraps New Glenn recovery ship, finishes first ‘test tank’

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Aside from a flashy, December 2020 re-christening ceremony in which Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos named the vessel Jacklyn after his late mother, the private aerospace company left the ship largely untouched in a Florida port. Further, SpaceX has only lost one booster to waves, and it solved that problem by developing a relatively cheap robot.

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The Boring Company’s skeptics need to calm down about the LVCC Loop

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One thing that Boring Company critics typically forget is the fact that the LVCC Loop’s tunnels are incredibly cheap and quick to build. Prufrock is designed to begin tunneling within 48 hours of its arrival onsite as well, making its deployments very easy and quick. Similar tunnels could be built in Florida soon as well.

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Porsche Whistleblower: “60% of all delivered Taycan have battery issues that caused replacements, damages and fires”

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To pretend to have done a repair that never happened and accept a lower battery capacity caused by a cheap Porsche onboard charger without informing the customer would be misleading, to say the least. Not all customers with “Red” designations are informed that the cell module had been replaced on their Taycan, the whistleblower said.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

Cars That Think

What excites me is the idea of cheap and accessible hardware! All of them are backed by expert roboticists with years of design experience. This is a sensible design choice to get up and running, but would definitely need redoing for longer-term operation. Overall, the current design is a very good first step.

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