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Forbes Hit Piece Uses Residential Electricity Prices for False Claim Against Tesla Semi

Forbes compared a Tesla guaranteed 7 cents for kwh charging price and compared it to 18 cents for residential home charging. Pepsi is not going to charge Semi trucks at people’s homes. Tesla will still be able to guarantee low wholesale or industrial electricity charging prices today. It might be 8 cents per kwh but ... Read more
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Tens of Thousands of Tons of Payload to the Moon With SpaceX Starship Starting in 2027

SpaceX Starship V4 tanker should be ready in 2027 which should reduce the number of tanker refills for lunar missions down to 5 or 6. IF 1200 to 1400 flights out of 10,000 per year were used for lunar missions or refuelings, then this would enable 200 full lunar missions delivering over 40,000 tons to ... Read more

AI Demand and Profits Are Better

The Rule of 40 is a widely used financial benchmark in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) and broader technology sector, particularly among venture capitalists and investors evaluating high-growth companies. It measures a company’s ability to balance revenue expansion with profitability. Rule of 40 is calculated as the sum of the year-over-year revenue growth rate (as a percentage) ... Read more

SpaceX Falcon 9 True Cost to Launch is About $300 per Pound Which is 25% of Selling Price to Customers

There are many sources like Our World in Data describe the cost to launch with SpaceX Falcon 9 as $2600 per kilogram or $1200 per pound but the cost to SpaceX is $900 per kilogram or $390 per pound. The ~$67–70 million external selling price is for about 30 out of the 170 missions in ... Read more

BYD Half as Many Cars Sold in January from December With Tough Competition from Geely

BYD NEVs include both passenger and commercial vehicles recorded January sales of 205,518 units, down 30.67% year-on-year and down 50.45% month-on-month. BYD’s January sales of passenger battery electric vehicles (BEVs) totaled 83,249 units, down 33.60% year-on-year and down 56.35% from December. BYD’s power battery and energy storage battery installations in January totaled about 20.187 GWh, ... Read more

Preventing, Mitigating and Recovering from a Kessler Syndrome

The European Space Agency and ClearSpace of Switzerland are targeting 2026 for a debris removal mission, in which a long-discarded payload adapter, at right in this illustration, will be grappled by a ClearSpace-made spacecraft equipped with an ESA-developed robotic arm. A Kessler Syndrome cascade is something that would play out over the course of decades ... Read more