🤑 Owning an electric vehicle is less expensive compared to a gas car
You can save thousands of dollars by owning an electric vehicle than a gas car, even if the purchase price for buying the electric vehicle is higher, according to two new reports.
🚀🚗Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster - Starman - has reached Mars
The Tesla car and mannequin in the driver's seat launched on a SpaceX rocket in 2018, has now reached the Red Planet.
⛓️ First political candidate to put pledges on the blockchain
Faruk Okcetin is a candidate for County Commissioner in Wake County, Raleigh, North Carolina. He is now the first candidate ever to put his campaign pledges on the blockchain, so the voters easily can keep him accountable.
🏭 U.S. CO2 emissions went down last year
Thanks to less coal-generated energy production and more from wind, solar, and natural gas, U.S. CO2 emissions declined 2,8 percent, or 150 million metric tons, in 2019, says U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
🔋 Tesla’s Battery Day spells the end of the ICE age
If we connect the dots from Tesla's announcements on Battery Day we see the revolution in plain sight. The era of the internal combustion engine is over. By 2030 electric vehicles will be much cheaper both to buy and own, and very few ICE cars will be sold.
⚡ Power to the people when the energy sector is getting disrupted
The world is getting decarbonized. Energy production is getting decentralized. When our appliances at home are getting digitalized, we can control our energy consumption - and the whole energy market is getting democratized.
🛫 Air travel will also go electric
"It's impossible!" the pessimists say about electric airplanes. Anders Forslund and Klara Andreasson seem not to have heard them. Because in a hangar outside of Gothenburg, they are building a commercial 19 passenger electric airplane.
🔋 Tesla cuts battery cost by 56% and promises $25,000 car
On Battery Day Tesla announced major breakthroughs that lead to 56 percent cheaper batteries with a 54 percent better range. This makes it possible to produce a $25,000 car, making it more affordable to buy and own an electric car than one with an internal combustion engine.
🔭 A gas on Venus can indicate life on the planet
Astronomers may have found signs of life on the planet Venus. If it turns out to be true, it is one of the greatest discoveries in human history.