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GM and Honda to establish industry-first $85M joint fuel cell system manufacturing operation in Michigan

Green Car Congress

Over the past three years, GM and Honda have been collaborating on next-generation fuel cell and hydrogen storage systems, aiming at commercialization in the 2020 time frame. With the next-generation fuel cell system, GM and Honda are making a dramatic step toward lower cost, higher-volume fuel cell systems. Earlier post.).

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SpaceX’s sootiest Falcon 9 booster yet returns to port after record reuse

Teslarati

That performance is roughly equivalent to two expendable Saturn V Moon rocket launches for a total launch cost to SpaceX likely less than $500 million, while five of those 19 launches also brought in revenue on the order of $400M to $500M.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

Ignoring the briefly popular commercial electrics around at the turn of the last century, EVs have been experimental concepts or limited edition runs until relatively recently. This lower-cost and lower-risk strategy is exemplified by the Volkswagen e-Golf and Fiat 500e. The e-Golf dropped in an electric drivetrain in place of an ICE.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

Cars That Think

College expenses for his sons loomed on the horizon, and he worried that a government salary wouldn’t cover the costs. It was time to go commercial. It wasn’t the first commercially available electronic mail service—CompuServe, Telenet, Tymnet, and others allowed subscribers to send email to other subscribers using dial-up modems.

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NASA’s Space Launch System Will Lift Off

Cars That Think

Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida—a cavernous structure built in the 1960s for constructing the Apollo program’s Saturn V rockets and, later, for preparing the space shuttle—the agency’s next big rocket is taking shape. Inside the. It represents everybody.”. Perhaps so.

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Swiss company outlines methanol-to-gasoline option for Alaska North Slope gas to state legislature

Green Car Congress

Costs for a 63,000 barrel (of gasoline) per day system would be approximately $5.2 van Wijk, a former Methanex executive, formed Saturn Methanol which subsequently built Titan Methanol, a 2,500 tonne per day methanol production facility in Trinidad, and began Atlas Methanol, also in Trinidad. billion, he said.

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Wall Street Report

Plug In Partners

While running on electricity, the plug-in's fuel cost drops to 70 cents a gallon, or lower, Dr. Frank estimates. Saturn and a 200-horsepower electric motor. market-research firm, says the battery problem means plug-ins will appear first as commercial vehicles: "Stop-and-go city driving really takes advantage of this technology."