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Mars has a launch window every 26-months. The round trip travel time to the moon is about 11 days. This means that you could send 72 round trips to the moon for every launch window to Mars. Doug Plata has …
Elon Musk tweeted out that Tesla is considering a Gigafactory in Texas. Giga Texas? — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 5, 2020 Brian Wang Brian Wang is a prolific business-oriented writer of emerging and disruptive technologies. He is known for insightful articles …
As of Dec 2019, the number of lithium ion battery megafactories in the pipeline has reached 115 plants. The worlds leading EV and battery manufacturer added a huge 564GWh of pipeline capacity in 2019 to a global total of 2068.3GWh …
Chinas top electric vehicle battery maker CATL (300750.SZ) said on Monday it has signed a battery supply agreement with Tesla. Tesla will buy as many batteries as Tesla chooses between July 2020 and June 2022. In the Q4 conference call, …
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has officially started the regulatory licensing process for its BWRX-300 reactor design. On 30 December, the company submitted the first licensing topical report for the small modular reactor to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). …
Researchers discovered a new cationic cobalt bisphosphine hydroformylation catalyst system that is highly active and extremely robust. Catalysts help transform one chemical substance into another, while remaining unchanged themselves. Cobalt, a common mineral, does well in accepting atoms from other …
In 2019, Tesla electric car production passed the combined electric car and plugin hybrid car of Chinese carmaker BYD. This made Tesla the world’s largest electric car maker. Cathie Wood of Ark Invest reported that Tesla increased its share of …
Princeton Satellite has had various NASA, SBIR and IR&D grants to develop a multi- megawatt-class nuclear fusion propulsion and space power system. This funding has enabled them to precisely simulate their designs and performed experiments. They have stated they would …
Tesla battery drive train day is tentatively planned for April, 2020. Tesla would describe the challenges reach 2000 gigawatt-hours of batteries every year. If that level of batteries was only for making 100 KWH cars then it would be 20 …
Tesla released 2019 fourth-quarter earnings and surpassed financial expectations on revenue and had $105 million in profit. The biggest new news is that Tesla already building and delivering model Y cars. Before Q3 2019, Tesla was talking about late 2020 …