July 19, 2019 |
Brian Wang |
A scenario where a modern society could collapse is if the energy returned from new energy sources drops below critical levels. Clearly, if you spend more energy to build a new reactor or solar farm than what the reactor produces …
July 11, 2019 |
Brian Wang |
First self-driving bus is now serving customers in New South Wales, Australia. It is serving the Marian Grove Retirement Village in Toormina, a suburb of Coffs Harbour. Using the BusBot app (iOS and Android), users will be able to hail …
July 2, 2019 |
Brian Wang |
Switzerland gets 95% of its electricity from nuclear and hydroelectric power. Both nuclear and hydro have almost zero CO2 emissions. Switzerland has a population of 8.5 million people. Switzerland gets electricity from Hydropower plants, 56% and Nuclear power plants, 39%. …
July 2, 2019 |
Brian Wang |
Tesla delivered 95,200 cars during the three months ending June 30 — a 51.1% increase over a weak first quarter and beat its previous record of 90,700 deliveries set in the fourth quarter of 2018. Tesla said orders generated during …
July 2, 2019 |
Brian Wang |
Tesla has battery cell manufacturing research at a “skunkworks lab” at Tesla’s Kato Road facility near its car plant in Fremont, California. Employees in Tesla’s battery R&D teams are now focused on designing and prototyping advanced lithium-ion battery cells, as …
July 1, 2019 |
Brian Wang |
Analysts are forecasting that Tesla deliveries of cars in the second quarter will be from 84000 to 97000 cars. The Model S and X deliveries are predicted to be 13,000 to 21,200.
June 9, 2019 |
Brian Wang |
The Tesla Model 3 has more sales than the Mercedes C Class, BMW 3 Series and Audi A4 combined in the USA from about January 2018 to June 2019. It nearly is outselling the three combined sales from Jan 2018 …
June 5, 2019 |
Brian Wang |
Tesla cars have been able to last for one million miles but starting in 2020 the battery packs will be able to last for a million miles as well. Currently, the battery packs last for 300,000 to 500,000 miles. Most …
May 20, 2019 |
Brian Wang |
Tesla’s Shanghai factory building has been completed on May 19, 2019. This was a record breaker in terms of the shortest time needed to construct a very large factory building. The rapid work will continue as they rush to complete …
