BYD Passes Ford Sales on the Way to 9-10 Million Per Year in 2027

BYD passed Ford as the world’s fourth best-selling auto brand in August, Ford’s sales dropped in Europe and the US, market research firm TrendForce said in a report today. BYD could reach 8-9 million China sales in about 4 years (2027). BYD is dominant with plug in hybrid but as China electrifies the plug in …

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Musk-Haters Make Falsifiable Claims

BA Rehl and presumably Youtuber Common Sense Skeptic make the following claims: 1. Starlink won’t be profitable and will fail. It needs to be in a higher orbit. 2. Starship won’t become operational and won’t complete Artemis 3. 3. CyberTruck will not exceed 50k units/year, 250k total. 4. Tesla facing bankruptcy by 2027. Youtuber Common …

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SpaceX Revenue in 2022 and Projected to 2023

There is another relatively thorough attempt to analyze SpaceX revenue. Payload Space underestimated Starlink revenue in October 2022 for 2022 at less than $1B and then had to revise up $1.87B. They are still underestimating for 2023 but it is relatively up to date if SpaceX is unable to really scale Starlink monthly dish production …

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Cybertruck Should Be Like a 30% Larger Tesla Model Y and Base Model Starting in the $40-50K Price Range

Auto Expert Cory Steuben of Munro Associates has insights from a partially constructed Tesla Cybertruck. He says that it has maybe 20 parts in the front frame section versus hundreds of parts for Rivian. He describes many construction similarities to the Gigatexas Tesla Model Y. If Cybertruck is like a 30% larger Tesla Model Y, …

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SpaceX Board Member and Nextbigfuture Agree SpaceX Will Take Over Air Cargo Within Ten Years

A SpaceX board member discusses the SpaceX Starship launch on the All in Podcast. Antonio Gracias is the Founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of Valor Equity Partners. Antonio founded Valor in 2001. He has over twenty years of experience in private equity investing. Antonio currently serves as Lead Independent Director at Tesla Motors …

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Quantifying and Identifying Singularity Level Technology

The concept of Singularity is popular for futurists and for science fiction writers. However, it is very vague. It is an intelligence or technology “explosion”. What does that mean? We don’t know. How do you measure it? I have a proposal. I think it is more useful to define and quantify a Singularity as a …

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Canada Has More Population Than California

Statistics Canada reports total population growth increased by 776,217 people in the first nine months of 2022. Between October 1, 2021 and October 1, 2022, Canada added 865,882 people – increasing the total population from 38.43 million to 39.29 million people. If the same or higher growth rate is also seen in 2023, Canada could …

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Half of Twitter’s Spending Has Been Wasted $TWTR $TSLA

Half of Twitter’s spending has been wasted or ineffective. It will be super easy for Elon Musk (or anyone competent) to make Twitter far more profitable. Twitter has been spending 25% of its revenue on Research and Development and 23% on marketing. However, the number of Twitter users has been flat since 2014. Elon Musk …

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Iron LFP Battery Tsunami

I, Brian Wang, have a new youtube video explaining the iron LFP battery tsunami that started coming out of China in 2021. This is a massive earthquake that hit the EV World. The financial and technological shockwaves and continuing impact will be felt from 2022-2026. I go over in detail the clear evidence that this …

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