Humanity needs to simplify the technology and products for our civilization but make them fully scalable and self-replicating. The technologies that we pick to scale need to be ones that we can increase to a thousand times our current levels with manageable pollution and side-effects at those scales. We will soon have billions or trillions …
Tony Seba describes the cost charts where supercheap electric cars become dominant. He observes that $11500 non-subsidized electric cars with over 300 kilometers of range exist now in the form of the BYD Seal. There needs to be more production expansion for electric cars to reach 80+% of all new cars and then to expand …
Batteries that exploit quantum phenomena to gain, distribute and store power promise to beat conventional chemical batteries in certain low-power applications. University of Tokyo and other researchers have takne advantage of an unintuitive quantum process that disregards the conventional notion of causality to improve the performance of so-called quantum batteries. Quantum batteries are still laboratory …
Tesla Cybertruck has a 120 Mile external range extender battery. It is like a large 140 kilogram superbattery with about 40 KWh of power. This would be like three powerwalls. As a modular external battery, people could either own one for those who are towing and moving heavy loads all the time or people could …
The US Inflation reduction Act tax credits were going to be cut in half starting Jan 1, 2024 if the batteries did not have materials from US and US allied countries. This will requirement to shift battery materials out of China will be delayed. The final details and timing have yet to be decided. BIG …
BYD has signed a deal with local conglomerate Huaihai Holding Group to jointly build a sodium battery manufacturing base with an annual capacity of tens of GWh. FinDreams, BYD’s battery making unit, and Huaihai signed a deal on November 18 in Shenzhen, where BYD is headquartered, to build the sodium battery site in Xuzhou, Jiangsu …
Northvolt announced a state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery, developed for the expansion of cost-efficient and sustainable energy storage systems worldwide. The cell has been validated for a best-in-class energy density of over 160 watt-hours per kilogram at the company’s R&D and industrialization campus, Northvolt Labs, in Västerås, Sweden. Northvolt’s validated cell is more safe, cost-effective, and sustainable …
A near term laser ablation of micropellets can be made to rapidly accelerate one ton space probes to reach Pluto in one year. The NASA New Horizons launched in 2006 took 9.5 years to reach Pluto and weighed a little less half of a ton. A ten megawatt laser system in geosynchronous could accelerate a …
Recent car industry, battery industry and AI industry developments are setting up well for Tesla. UAW just added about $900 or more to the cost of competitors cars (ICE and EV). Battery prices are dropping globally. Ford has delayed $12 billion in EV and battery investment plans. Honda, GM and other traditional carmakers are all …
While a Tesla owner was at the Tesla service center, two Cybertrucks that Tesla had been testing in rough off-road conditions in Baja California arrived. The owner mentioned that Cybertruck drivers told her the cyberrtruck will be able to go 500 miles on a single charge. While a Tesla owner was at the Tesla service …
Giga Texas made their 20 millionth 4680 cell. This comes just 4 months after Tesla built its 10 millionth 4680 cell at Giga Texas. Tesla just built their 20 millionth 4680 cell at Giga Texas! What does that mean? -As per my analysis from the Q2 earnings call in the image below: It looks they're …