Rocket Lab will soon take its tiny Electron rocket further than any similarly-sized vehicle before it, sending a NASA satellite to the Moon and potentially kicking off a new era of unprecedentedly cheap space exploration. On February 14th, the world-leading small satellite launch company announced – alongside NASA – that the space agency had awarded […]
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Tesla’s Powerwall residential battery storage system and Australian solar company 5B’s solar panels are being used by Atlassian co-founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes’ new collective to assist those who have lost power due to the country’s tragic bushfires. Cannon-Brookes, who previously pledged $12 million to help recovery efforts in Australia’s bushfire-affected regions, announced that he […]
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New footage of the Tesla Model Y has emerged showing the company’s first all-electric crossover at the test track outside of the Fremont production plant where it ran spirited laps and launches. The Model Y can be seen testing at the factory’s South Lot, performing through a series of banked turns at the company’s testing […]
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The Audi factory in Belgium paused the production of the e-tron SUV citing production issues such as a battery supply bottleneck. The production of Audi Brussels was shut down Thursday last week and is expected to last until Tuesday. According to Audi insiders, aside from battery supply issues, there are also shortages of other parts […]
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Recent images of a Tesla Model Y release candidate with its rear hatch open has provided a small teaser of the upcoming all-electric crossover’s rear cargo space. Based on the photos, it appears that the Model Y’s primary luggage area is very generous, to the point where it almost seems comparable to that of the […]
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Tesla is urging the German government to lift a ban on Sundays and holidays for electric trucks, according to a report. Recent reports from Germany indicated that a delegation from the electric vehicle manufacturer recently met with Steffen Bilger, the Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport (BMVI) to discuss the abolition of the […]
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NASA has revealed that the astronauts assigned to SpaceX’s Crew Dragon astronaut launch debut are training for a space station mission many times longer than initially planned. Scheduled to deliver two NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS) no earlier than (NET) late-April or May 2020, Crew Dragon’s Demo-2 mission will be […]
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As it turns out, Elon Musk’s tunneling startup, The Boring Company, has just completed and perhaps even deployed its custom-designed tunnel boring machine. The new digger features several innovations, and it could very well accelerate Musk’s vision of ultra-high-speed tunnels transporting vehicles and people through a vast network of tunnels underground. The brief announcement was […]
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed that the Tesla Cybertruck will come with a payload and towing calculator that shows real-time data to help drivers understand how extra loads affect the pickup truck and the vehicle’s driving experience. Musk confirmed the feature in a series of tweets that mentioned the Cybertruck’s laser blade lights and […]
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SpaceX officially has permission to perform a Falcon 9 booster recovery after its next launch for the US Air Force, now guaranteed to be the first time a rocket booster attempts to land during an operational launch for the US military. Alongside their booster landing attempt confirmation, the USAF Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) […]
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