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Jordan Giesige has researched all aspects of the Tesla Battery Day announcements. Jordan’s analysis is that the Kato Road 4680 battery plant should be achieving a 5 GWh per year production...

The US Air Force is funding $48 million to study using the SpaceX Starship to move military cargo anywhere in the world in one hour. There will need to be more spent to actually use SpaceX Starships...

The SpaceX Super Heavy booster that will fly to orbit should be completed within weeks. This first booster will have 29 Raptor engines and each engine will have 225 tons of thrust. The regular Super...

There are many companies working to develop commercial supersonic planes. There is Boom Technology which has raised $241 million and has may pre-orders from potential customers. United Airlines...

The largest battery maker in the world, CATL, is planning an 80 GWH/year plant near Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory. The new plant would be able to make 80 gigawatt-hours of battery cells a year....

SpaceX is scheduled to fly a cargo Dragon 2 to the space station starting June 3. Crew Dragon’s system of SuperDraco abort thrusters and other gear were removed from the human flight Dragon 2 to...

Andrej Karpathy, Director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla, says that the cameras and AI used by Tesla can process visual driving data ten times faster than humans. Yes vision...

Elon Musk says that Raptor engine production has reached one every two days. This is a runrate of 180 per year. The previous Merlin engines had reached a production rate of 400 engines per year....

Tesla electric vehicles are not competing in the below $40,000 price range. Tesla Model 3 starts at $41,000 and the Tesla Model Y starts at $51,000. The Tesla Model S starts at $70,000. The Tesla...

Axiom Space is hosting private missions to the ISS, starting in 2021. They are adding modules to the International Space Station. Axiom will separate their modules from the Space Station around...

Plug in electric vehicles and full battery electric vehicle sales were up over 40% from last year in terms of percentage of overall car sales. 2021 PEV (plug-in electric) share was 5.7% (3.7% BEV)...

Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture will live chat with Warren Redlich on Youtube tomorrow at 5pm PST. Warren and I will talk about Tesla and perhaps some other topics.

Ford currently has one electric vehicle production facility and is building another. The Ford Mach-E is built in Mexico. The Cuautitlan Stamping and Assembly Plant (CSAP) is a Ford Motor Company...

The Hill talks about the Pentagon confirming the 2019 “triangle” UFO video as a real navy video. Mick West and others identified the stars in the video. They determined the number of...

China has announced that it will allow couples to have up to three children after the 2020 census data showed a steep decline in birth rates. Above is a chart (from the UN Family Planning...

Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) are energetic particles traveling across the Galaxy as high-energy beams, and are a unique probe to explore the astrophysical particle accelerators and the interstellar...

Corporate cash flow reporting is not as simple as it may seem. There are challenges in ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of the reports. It is not easy to keep track of cash from operating,...

The Boring Company Vegas Loop capacity testing exceeded 4400 passengers per hour on Tuesday. The LVCVA said it would conduct capacity tests for the loop ahead of World of Concrete, the convention...

Richard Hanania, president of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, said the U.S. cannot indefinitely maintain its global leadership role in the face of China’s growing power...

GERO.AI uses Whole-Exome Sequencing data for in-human AI Drug Discovery, while GeroSense is the arm of Gero creating Digital Biomarkers. GERO.AI models are taken from the physics of complex dynamic...

Sandy Munro talked about Tesla’s key near term technology. He indicates that Panasonic shifting to provide 4680 batteries will make it far faster to ramp 4680. Once any chemistry issues are...

Comma AI has two self-driving cars products called Openpilot and Comma two. Comma had about $5 million in annual revenue in 2020. They have 40 million miles of driving data collected from drivers...

Lex Fridman interviewed David Fravor. David Fravor is a navy pilot of 18 years and a primary witness in one of the major UFO sightings. The Tic Tac video and encounter is described by David Fravor....

Thunderfoot is a youtuber who mocks and criticizes many things. Sometimes he is right like criticizing Indiegogo ripoffs which promote dangerous air pumped mini-scuba tanks. He can also be right when...

Ford will increase their electric vehicle and autonomous vehicle division investments from $22 billion to $30 billion from now to 2025. Tesla still has more EV capital spending and research planned...

Amazon has bought MGM for $8.45 billion. The main property driving this is the James Bond franchise. Amazon also wanted the catalog of more than 4,000 films—12 Angry Men, Basic Instinct, Creed, James...

Viasat has not been able to stop SpaceX Starlink from launching more satellites. SpaceX just had another good launch. This is the fourth good Starlink launch in May, 2021. There are 1638 good...

A 2020 research paper provides an overview of the current status of the Ariane NEXT (20282030 reusable) launch system definition and economic analysis, and development status. Anyone can propose a...

There is a paper published on open access MDPI where there are people supporting the case that the Pentagon UAP videos are incredible and not mundane. Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous...

SpaceX Super Heavy booster will have hot gas thrusters instead of nitrogen thrusters for maneuvering in space before reentry. This will be the case before the first orbital flight. Aiming to have hot...

Elon Musk says pure vision Autopilot is now rolling out in North America. There will be an update of this production release in 2 weeks, then FSD beta V9.0 (also pure vision) a week later (mid-June)....

SpaceX is building Starbase City which will build a hundred Starships each year. This will be eight Starship per month. They will launch each Starship three times per day. SpaceX is converting two...

Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper Laboratory previously lost a bid to build a human lunar lander for NASA to SpaceX. Jeff Bezos’ company bid $6 billion to build one...

On February 16, 2020 Nextbigfuture reported that the China Biohazard lab was the likely source of the COVID-19 coronavirus. South China University of Technology biologist Xiao Botao has co-written a...

Kernal is developing invasive and non-invasive brain-machine interface and neuroscience technology. Kernel is a private neurotechnology company headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The company...

A new amended Senate bill requires that NASA’s nearly $3 billion lunar lander award to SpaceX may not be changed or rescinded in order to comply with the requirement that there be at least two...

Financial Analyst Pierre Ferragu, New Street Research, has analyzed the history of Tesla’s cash return on operating assets. Cash return on operating assets. broke-even at some point in 2018...

Thunderfoot has more analysis of the mistakes made by some in the US military, US government in analyzing videos. – Regular planes look like blobs in infrared imaging. – They are saying...

Thunderfoot analyzed some of the Pentagon UFO videos. He looked at the height of the plane, worked out the height of the object and determined the speed of the object. His analysis seems to indicate...

Real aliens would have to travel over four light years to get here. They would outclass our technology by at least 100+ years and probably thousands of years. They would be able to do things with...

Ford and SK Innovation have signed an MoU to create a joint venture – to be called BlueOvalSK – to produce approximately 60 GWh annually in traction battery cells and array modules, starting 2025. By...

TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and National Taiwan University (NTU) have shown a process that uses the semi-metal bismuth to enable the manufacture of...

Scientists have created new artificial tissues that mimic some of the complex characteristics and abilities of living tissues, paving the way towards unprecedented advances in medicine,...

The last 18 months have been a wild ride. Here’s how the global pandemic affected the traffic stats of top websites.

Joe Tegtmeyer reports on the many front castings for Tesla Model Y that are already being produced in GigaTexas. There are over 50 Model Y front castings. The casting machine is installed and in test...

Here are the disclosures that the US military regularly encounters unidentified flying objects. (UFO) The new terms is unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP. there is a report due to Congress next...

NASA has formalized an October, 2020 contract for SpaceX to get $53 million for an orbital refueling demo contract. There will be a large-scale flight demonstration to transfer 10 metric tons of...

SpaceX Starlink has 1578 satellites in orbit which have combined download capacity of 26 terabits per second. If this download capacity could be perfectly distributed it would enable 260,000 people...

Elon Musk confirms that Gigatexas will start producing 4680 battery cell Model Y later this year. This means Tesla will have 4680 at reasonable scale and car ready in 2021. This is not the 12-18...

There is new research into a new battery technology platform that is completely metal-free. This new battery technology platform utilizes a polypeptide organic radical construction. Almost all Li-ion...