Tag: project
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The New Hype: Rexx Life Raj Is Enjoying His Success—While Still Wrestling With It
Getty Images/Marcus Byrd/Ringer illustration The Berkeley rapper talks about his new project, ‘California Poppy 2,’ and his journey to his big break. Plus: the up-and-coming rap and R&B you need to know right now. Each month, The Ringer’s Logan Murdock will profile up-and-coming artists from across the music landscape. And each month, he’ll also put…
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Dyson poured $629 million into an electric car before abandoning it — here’s what its Tesla competitor was supposed to look like
Fred Macgregor / Dyson Dyson scrapped its electric car project in May, after spending more than $600 million on its development. The company released new images of the prototype this week. Dyson hopes some of the battery technology can be repurposed, so that not everything is wasted from the investment. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for…
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Global Briefing: General Motors powers up $20bn EV investment plan
Plus all of the Top Rated business news from around the world ‘All in’: GM unveils fast-expanding EV fleet US car giant General Motors (GM) this week given a broad upgrade on its challenging electric vehicle (EV) plan, equaling to invest more than $20bn through to 2025 on its own next production all-electric and autonomous…
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MbS Goes Elon Musk On Steroids: Seeks Flying Cars, Electric Dinosaurs, Robot Maids, & Glowing Sand For Barren Saudi Desert
In northwest Saudi Arabia, in which many folks today visit a barren wasteland, Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has pictured the long run, and in accordance with this Wall Street Journal, it is something straight from an Elon Musk wet dream, complete with flying crane, robot maids, robot dinosaurs, and robot martial arts, unlimited…
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Eversource Wants to Back Up an Entire Rural Town With Batteries Large and Small
New England utility Eversource wants to deploy energy storage to rear an outage-prone New Hampshire city, while saving customers money. The 18,070 inhabitants of Westmoreland rely upon a single radial power line to provide electricity during the forested, urban environment. Ice storms and heavy snowfall often knock that line down, making the area an outlier…
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Las Vegas approves a $48.6 million contract with Elon Musk’s Boring Company
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority held a vote today, where it approved a $48.6 million contract with the Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunneling venture. The Boring Company’s “people mover,” the LVCC Loop, will consist of two tunnels for vehicles and three channels, as well as a pedestrian tunnel. The project is expected to…
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Vestas to Acquire Stake in Wind and Solar Developer Sowitec
Image Credit: Vestas Denmark’s Vestas, the world’s leading wind turbine supplier, is moving to acquire a stake in renewables project developer Sowitec — part of a trend of wind manufacturers diversifying to supply multi-technology solutions. Vestas this week announced a deal to acquire a 25.1 percent stake in privately owned Sowitec, with an option to purchase…
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SpaceX’s plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes | Gwynne Shotwell
What’s up at SpaceX? Engineer Gwynne Shotwell was employee number seven at Elon Musk’s pioneering aerospace company and is now its president. In conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson, she discusses SpaceX’s race to put people into orbit and the organization’s next big project, the BFR (ask her what it stands for). The new giant…
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Mexico Gets Its First Grid-Scale Battery—at a Car Factory
Mexico energy police have been developing a power storage strategy to balance from the country’s current surge in solar power plants. What is apparently the very first and biggest battery to come online, though, does something else completely. The 12-megawatt/12-megawatt-hour device changed on in October to deliver strength and power quality in a 130-megawatt microgrid…
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Enbala to Enable World’s Biggest Residential Solar-Plus-Storage Virtual Power Plant
Picture Credit: Shutterstock Enbala, the Denver, Colo.-based startup using applications that runs virtual power plants around North America, has landed a contract to manage the planet ’s biggest aggregation of home solar and behind-the-meter batteries together with Australian usefulness AGL. On Monday, Enbala declared it will provide the “cloud-based control and optimization platform” for AGL’s…