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The largest cross-country 18-wheel trucks will need five to 10 times more electricity than an electric car to recharge its battery. And these trucks often need to recharge far from high-power transmission lines. Engineers at the U.S. Department of Energys …
Tesla Battery Day had the goal of the world producing 20 TWh per year of low cost, high energy density batteries. Reaching this goal would enable all new cars, buses, and trucks to be electric and it allows solar and …
Elon Musk says Tesla Berlin will produce and use the new 4680 battery cell and the structural battery pack. Tesla Berlin should be producing cars in Q1 or Q2 of 2021. Berlin will use 4680 cell with structural battery pack …
NASA researchers have detected nuclear fusion in metal loaded with deuterium. A metal such as erbium is loaded with deuterium atoms (aka deuterons) packing the fuel a billion times denser than in magnetic confinement (tokamak) fusion reactors. In the new …
The SPARC Fusion reactor team have made good theoretical progress to the goal of a commercial nuclear fusion reactor. SPARC is a compact, high-field, DT burning tokamak, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Commonwealth Fusion Systems. The SPARC design …
At room temperature, micron-sized sheets of freestanding graphene are in constant motion, even in the presence of an applied bias voltage. University of Arkansas researchers collecting the displacement current using a nearby small-area metal electrode and present an Ito-Langevin model …
China’s President Xi has committed to make China Carbon neutral by 2060. China’s top university, Tsinghua, has published an energy plan to reach that goal. The plan would be increase nuclear energy by nearly 5 times from today’s level and …
Oman, Sudan, Comoros, Djibouti and Mauritania are in talks with Israel to normalize relations. Israel already had peace deals with Egypt and Jordan. They just recently reached normalization agreements with UAE and Bahrain. Saudi Arabia’s current King Salman is against …
Tesla’s third quarter 2020 vehicle deliveries were 139,300 and third quarter production estimate is 145,036. The Q3 2020 deliveries of the Model S and Model X are a little over 15,000 and the Q3 deliveries of the Model 3 and …
China’s State Power Investment Corp (SPIC) has officially launched the CAP1400 reactor design. the 1500 MWe design is a larger version of the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor. The plan is for many of these nuclear reactors to be built in China …