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Nothing in the article states what the chemicals are made of, so we have no idea of their cost, rarity, toxicity, ease of fabrication, or whether or not they have unique handling requirements.
It's a neat concept, and the fact they've gotten it to work in a lab is a fundamental baby step, but they're a long way away from building a gigafactory capable of making this stuff (and the attendant whole-home systems that could use it) at anything like industrial scale.
Oh, and for all the Tesla haters here, just a quick heads up that Tesla posted a profit last quarter.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/...-earnings.aspx
Note that this is before the Model 3 has even gone on sale in Europe or Asia.Quote:
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) caught investors off guard last Wednesday by reporting a massive third-quarter profit of $312 million. This was just the third time in the company's history that it has reported a quarterly profit under GAAP accounting rules, and it easily set a new earnings record for Tesla.
For those that aren't aware what this means... it's YUGE! Experts were saying if they even came close to breaking even while still losing lots of money it would be a tremendous success. They blew that high mark out of the water in a massive way and are well on their way to making even more money with every single quarter moving forward. Funny how many of the big short sellers took their loss and folded their short position on Tesla. It went from about $250/share a couple of weeks ago when I was telling people to buy to almost $350/share currently. There is very little competition in sight at this point too so that number shows no signs of going lower either much to the chagrin of the Tesla haters who want to see a successful American company that is actually innovating fail for reasons known only to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Justin
Here ya go... you may want to use this- it's electric!
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Ural and Zero Motorcycles have gotten together to build a prototype electric Ural. Neat thing here is they use the side car to store additional batteries.
https://www.imz-ural.com/electric
One would hope that with the power train being developed by an American company with experience building electric motorcycles that this project will result in something pretty cool; a Ural that's actually reliable.
In other EV news, a new air craft racing league is being stood up that will use electric powered planes.
https://insideevs.com/first-ever-ele...race-airplane/
Haven't seen this thread for a while. Regarding Tesla's profit, let's see if they can do it 2 quarters in a row. There were a number of reports of suppliers going unpaid prior to the end of the last quarter.
Given that the bulk of the capital expenditures are overwith, I see no reason why they wouldn't continue to make a profit.
Hell, they're outselling BMW and Mercedes.
Man, I want one of those Electric Urals. Without the crap Russian power plant, I bet they'd actually run well. One in OD Green or Coyote Brown would be fun.
And with a sidecar to carry the batteries it would likely have decent range. I think most electric motorcycles are limited to around 125 miles now and then it's 4+ hours on the charger.Quote:
Originally Posted by Justin
125 is about the top end of range for electric motorcycles. Most of them are more like 50-70, which would seem to put them in the toy category. The Ural prototype has a range of 108 miles, and that's using components that Zero developed in 2016. If they could get the range of a commercial Ural up to around 125-150, I think that would be pretty useful, especially with the addition of the sidecar.
Currently Zero seems to be at or near the top of the game when it comes to electric motorcycles:
https://www.zeromotorcycles.com/
They make some good looking products, that's for sure.