Researchers at Princeton University and the University of Washington have developed an ultracompact camera the size of a coarse grain of salt. The system relies on a technology called a metasurface, which is studded with 1.6 million cylindrical posts and can be produced much like a computer chip. Impacts: * Next level miniturization * better …
Plug-in electric car sales in China in October 2021 more than doubled October 2020 to over 325,000. Battery electric cars are now over 13% of China’s total new car market. The share of battery electric cars is rapidly growing in China and Europe. Germany is 30% EV. A rapid shift four to six year shift …
China EV startups have announced November deliveries. Xpeng has pulled ahead of Nio by a lot. Nio and Xpeng had both been making about 10,000 cars per month for the past few months, but Xpeng has pushed beyond 15000 per month. In July, Li Auto, XPeng and Nio were all about 8000 July deliveries. NIO …
Elon Musk seemed to have been dropping hints that there would be a big announcement on Dec 9, 2021. This had the Tesla community speculating that it could be a stock split but there is some evidence that Dec 9, 2021 could see the announcement of an early start of Cybertruck production. The clues may …
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) announced it has closed on more than $1.8 billion in Series B funding to commercialize fusion energy. This money will be used construct, commission, and operate SPARC, the world’s first commercially relevant net energy fusion machine. They will also start work on ARC, the first commercial fusion power plant, which includes …
Grace Tao, vice president of Tesla China, said Giga Shanghai could reach its 500,000 vehicle production target this year. This means Tesla China will make at least 195,000 cars. It will also mean that Tesla will produce an average of at least 70,000 cars in November and December. 70,000 cars per month would be 840,000 …