Cost. Owning a manual transmission has become costly. As more and more vehicle manufacturers are ditching manual transmissions altogether to make way for new automatic lineups, supply for manual transmission vehicles has plummeted. Why are manual cars going away? Better … Continue reading →

250 km/h. Performance Acceleration 0 – 100 km/h 4.4 sec Top Speed 250 km/h Electric Range 422 km How fast is a 2015 Tesla Model S 85D? 155 mphWith 518 hp, the electric powertrain accelerates this Model S 85D to … Continue reading →

On Oct. 28, 2019, Virgin Galactic stock became the first publicly traded commercial space tourism company after a reverse merger with Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings.Virgin Galactic entered into a Space Act Agreement with NASA in May to work on developing … Continue reading →

Very roughly speaking, “labor” and “machinery/energy” can be exchanged for each other depending on the labor costs and technology available. Fundamentally, a digging tunnel is moving a lot of mass, and moving it through a highly-constrained space (so that large … Continue reading →

SpaceX Starship: how more ships enable a Mars city. Musk wants to build 800 to 1,000 Raptor engines per year. That would be enough engines for 20 to 25 booster-equipped Starships per year. Over a 10-year period, SpaceX could build … Continue reading →

Everyday benefits of space exploration Improving health care. Protecting our planet and our environment. Creating scientific and technical jobs. Improving our day-to-day lives. Enhancing safety on Earth. Making scientific discoveries. Sparking youth’s interest in science. Cooperating with countries around the … Continue reading →

The Falcon Heavy derivative, first flown in February 2018, consists of a strengthened Falcon 9 first stage as its center core, with two additional Falcon 9 first stages attached and used as boosters. Falcon 9 Country of origin United States … Continue reading →

Although NASA’s lunar missions returned more than 842 pounds of moon rock to Earth, it is illegal for private citizens to own any of it (lunar meteorites, however, are perfectly legal). Instead, lunar samples were used as goodwill gifts to … Continue reading →

The solid fuel is actually powdered aluminum — a form similar to the foil wraps in your kitchen — mixed with oxygen provided by a chemical called ammonium perchlorate. What fuel does rocket use? Today, liquid hydrogen is the signature … Continue reading →

As Kuiper describes its service as “affordable,” expect a price that can compete effectively with Starlink. Are there any competitors to Starlink? But Starlink may find itself in competition with others soon. While beta testers have praised the service for … Continue reading →

He wants to ignite nuclear bombs at Mars’ poles with the ambition of terraforming the planet, making the Red Planet liveable for humans. The fast method is to release thermonuclear weapons over the poles according to Musk that could make … Continue reading →

Steve Jobs dropped out of college so he could drop in to the classes that looked more interesting. Reed College offered the best calligraphy course in the country. In those classes Jobs learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, something … Continue reading →

29-mile-. It’s a 29-mile-long network of tunnels beneath the Las Vegas Strip. It’ll eventually encompass 51 stations served by Tesla vehicles. How long is the Tesla tunnel in Las Vegas? 29-mileA map of the proposed and approved 29-mile “Vegas Loop” … Continue reading →

Hyperloop Zip2. X.com. PayPal. SpaceX. Tesla, Inc. Tesla Energy. OpenAI. Neuralink. Which companies are developing Hyperloop? Here are my thoughts on how they compare: HyperloopTT (US) Virgin Hyperloop One (US) DP World Cargo Speed (UAE) Hardt hyperloop (The Netherlands) Nevomo … Continue reading →

1996. In 1996, the first electric vehicle was a three-wheeler, invented by Scooter’s India Pvt Ltd, and it was named VIKRAM SAFA. Approximately 400 vehicles were made and sold. In 2000, BHEL developed an eighteen-seater electric bus, which became popular … Continue reading →