Amogy Inc., a pioneer of emission-free, energy-dense ammonia power solutions, announced today the successful testing of the first-ever ammonia-powered, zero-emission semi truck. Amogy has received $150 million in funding. The system has 5x higher system-level energy densities compared to lithium batteries. The volumetric energy density of liquid ammonia is almost 3x greater than that of …
Electrical engineer Ali Hajimiri explains the principles behind wireless energy transfer and shares his far-out vision for launching flexible solar panels into space in order to collect sunlight, convert it to electrical power and then beam it down to Earth. Learn how this technology could power everything — and light up our world from space. …
Tesla is planning to produce 375,000 Cybertrucks per year and have release candidates by late August, according to communications they sent to suppliers. The Street was estimating 90000 Cybertrucks for 2024. @ElectrekCo 375k #cybertruck a year for $TSLA would be an enormous number. Way more than street. 250k Ys in 2022 in US. Tesla Stock …
GM, like Ford, will begin installing a charging port used by Tesla, known as NACS, instead of the current industry-standard CCS, in its EVs starting in 2025. Under the deal, GM vehicles will be able to access 12,000 of Tesla’s fast chargers using an adapter and the Detroit automaker’s EV charging app, starting next year. …
Caltech Space Solar Power Project (SSPD) launched into orbit a prototype to beam power to Earth and has transmitted power from orbit to another receiver in orbit. They confirmed that MAPLE can transmit power successfully to receivers in space. They have also been able to program the array to direct its energy toward Earth, which …
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $46 million in funding to eight companies developing commercial fusion power plants. The companies funded by the DOE were: Commonwealth Fusion Systems (Cambridge, MA) Commonwealth Fusion is working on Tokomaks with higher power magnets. SPARC would be the size of existing mid-sized fusion devices but with a much …
Tesla and its competitors will need to have If Tesla makes 20 of those Megapack factories it will cost $8 billion in Capex for initial construction and Tesla would be making about $400-500 billion per year in revenue from those factories around 2030. This will scale to $1 trillion per year by 2040. However, if …
Virtus Solis is a funded startup working to develop space based solar power. They would leverage the low cost launch of the SpaceX Starship and modular satellites to enable power to be beamed from space at lower cost than coal or natural gas power. Twenty five thousand 1-kilowatt solar power modules would be launched in …
Elon says SpaceX Starship with improved Raptor 3 engines should lift 300 tons in expendable mode which should mean mean 180 tons in reusable mode. The International Space Station weighs about 420 tons and took about fifty space shuttle launches to build. The Starship upper stage has more volume than the International Space Station. A …
Ford will use Tesla’s network of 12000 superchargers starting in 2024 and Ford is now committed to using Tesla’s charging interface. Tesla and Ford might partner on more aspects in the future. A Tesla-developed adapter will provide drivers of Ford EVs fitted with a Combined Charging System (CCS) port access to Tesla’s V3 Superchargers, according …
Felipe Munoz, an Automotive Industry Specialist at JATO, recently noted that the Model Y appears to have led the world sales ranking of passenger cars in the first quarter of 2023. Tesla Model Y sold 267,200 units in the first quarter of 2023, up about 69% year-over-year. The Model Y performed particularly well in key …