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Everyone’s chasing the cheap electric truck, but a startup just undercut Bezos-backed Slate with the opposite bet: a $21,500 gas pickup with a six-speed manual, real four-wheel drive and 600 miles a tank, reviving a brand that’s been dead since the 1950s
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@casey ROOKIE · 9 hours
This is too good to be true! But this is what every truck buyer wants! I hope these guys make it happen!!
@ryancarter ROOKIE · 3 hours
I don't believe that it's realistically happening, but if be lying if I said it didn't turn me tf on to think about it being real.
@thomaskeen ROOKIE · 14 minutes
Looking forward to seeing this. My last vehicle purchase was old because of problems with newer vhicles and I can wrench on it with out need…
Slate reveals JUST how bare bones its trucks will be in order to be under $25K, including crank windows and no paint. At least Americans can finally afford an EV pickupComment on the article →
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@jdjones ROOKIE · 19 hours
A/C. Anything else I'll do myself
While the tallest wind turbines reach about 600 feet, a Chinese airship carried 12 turbines more than ten times higher, to 6,560 feet, and pushed the electricity down a single cable to the grid
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Matthew McKenzie ROOKIE · 2 days
So, 1KW for 285 hours, then? Test flight time would be useful to know. At 3MW that would be 5m42s. So I am thinking the flight was about …
Canada just cut a hole in the roof of a working nuclear reactor, hauled out eight steam generators weighing 100 tons each, and lowered new ones into the same hole, bringing the reactor back online seven months early to run another 35 years
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arthurb ROOKIE · 2 days
I enjoy your articles and how you present them. Too bad no pictures or graphics. I'd be interested in how the pipes and connections look as …
James L ROOKIE · 2 days
My father in law worked there for 32 years.
Sweden just shipped the most powerful transformer of its kind ever built, a 446-ton machine the weight of a loaded 747, rolling it out of the factory on a 350-foot trailer with over 300 wheels at walking pace, bound for China to power 10 million homes
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@alancampbell ROOKIE · 4 days
This is why the "West" is doomed....we allow the Chinese to get access to our technology so they can copy it and put western businesses out …
@govindarajans ROOKIE · 3 days
Short time Competition can destroy years of developmental effort
@monsharkestad ROOKIE · 3 days
You lose the market much faster if you force the other part to make their own industry instead of at least making some money selling them th…
Australia just punched a 2,300-ton machine through the rock nearly a kilometer under the mountains to build the country’s largest renewable project, a power station the size of a 20-story building, turning two lakes into a battery that stores a week of power
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georgeh ROOKIE · 6 days
Does this keep killing anything trying to live in those lakes?
@ericvandenbroek ROOKIE · 4 days
$12 billion???? You are way off !!! The latest costing on it is $48 BILLION!!!! And won't be bloody finished until 2036 if all goes smoothly…
China just strung 22,000 tons of steel, three Eiffel Towers’ worth, across a canyon in Guizhou to build the highest bridge ever, a four-lane highway hanging 625 meters over the river, higher than the Empire State Building
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@sathyanarayanan ROOKIE · 6 days
It is really unimaginable, marvellous task, congrats to the people who planned and executed, appreciating from India.
This hydrogen fuel cell submarine drone hit every one of its endurance, depth and acoustic targets in testing, the 3 numbers battery-powered AUVs have spent 15 years failing to match at once
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@kevinfitzgibbon ROOKIE · 6 days
Hi and thanks for this article. Very interesting. Questions arising for me: what's the payload capacity for sensors? What are the trade offs…
An Italian battery the size of a sports stadium is coming to the U.S. grid with no lithium inside, storing power by squeezing 2,000 tons of carbon dioxide into liquid and breathing back out the gas everyone spent a decade trying to bury
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@arthurnelson ROOKIE · 7 days
Read this quote so it makes sense: "The bigger thing is that this is the same trade a whole crop of stranger storage ideas is making right n…
Bill Gates just started building the first new kind of American reactor in a decade, cooled by liquid sodium and wired to a molten-salt tank that works like a giant battery, letting it jump from 345 to 500 megawatts when the grid screams for power
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@kurtisengle ROOKIE · 1 week
You see, the thing about it is, sodium burns on contact with water or air. We experimented with this matirial North of Los Angeles in the 19…
@jamesrussell ROOKIE · 1 week
I'm assuming that even though it is a commercial reactor, that it is still looked at as a test bed for new reactor design at the commercial …
Mercedes-Benz spent the last decade selling you electric luxury. Now it’s building vehicles designed to knock drones out of the sky, mounting interceptors on the G-Class as Europe rearms and EV demand collapses
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@edwinjdingleyic ROOKIE · 2 weeks
The drone tech costs much more than the vehicle. Remember, the G-Class we know today is a SUPER-pimped version of the base model which costs…
Fiat is releasing an 8 (that’s eight) horsepower EV in the US
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@garrymasters ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Seems like “close but no cigar” for many places yet may be great for others.
In Ocean City MD the main drag of Ocean Hwy has a speed limit …
The biggest fear about going electric is the day the battery dies and you’re staring at a $16,000 bill. Run the 20-year numbers against what you’d burn in gas, and that fear looks very different
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@artadams ROOKIE · 2 weeks
oil changes monthly?
@artadams ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Q: What does it cost to fill up my F250 diesel? A: about 3 minutes.
@keithshultz ROOKIE · 2 weeks
I came in expecting a hit job, but I think you explained it very well. I will add that ICE vehicles are much more likely to have a major ove…
A 155-ton reactor in Italy running on molten lead, with electric heaters faking the uranium, is about to make real electricity with zero nuclear fuel inside, a full-size test of the metal before any fuel goes in
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@kimsch ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Surely lead fumes are toxic. How is this aspect managed?
@richardmccue ROOKIE · 1 week
how does this compare to the lead bismuth eutectic reactors used in a small number of soviet nuclear boats - i think the Alpha class. if i …
A U.S. Navy underwater drone just spent a week patrolling the Baltic seabed where the cables keep getting severed, mapping more than a dozen miles per charge and flagging anything that moved since yesterday
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@oscargoldman ROOKIE · 2 weeks
And now Russia knows where everything is.
@davedrbixbixler ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Everyone knows, they've always known. They're supposed to know to avoid doing exactly what they're doing. You can know too because there's…
@davedrbixbixler ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Submarine Cable Map, Google it.
South Korea just revealed a pilot plant that’s been quietly turning smokestack CO2 into gasoline, 110 pounds a day drained into jerrycans, after its chemists deleted the hottest step in the recipe
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@tombell ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Introduce solar-derived energy to the process to power the furnace instead of natural gas.
Australian scientists just made the case that the continent already runs a natural nuclear reactor: superhot granite that once powered a plant for 160 days before the wells got plugged and everyone walked away
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@nigelbean ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Australia may have a lot of deep and expensive geothermal energy. We also have a lot of cheap and easily accessible solar, wind and coal. We…
A Finnish company just fed pure hydrogen to a 13,000-horsepower piston engine the size of a bus and put the electricity on Spain’s national grid, the world’s first large-scale engine running on 100% hydrogen
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@borisjohnston ROOKIE · 2 weeks
How is the Hydrogen created?
@scottsnell ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Great article. Very well written, punchy style, knowledgeable, and informative. However, I think the death of carbon-based fuels and engines…
@dorrisethel ROOKIE · 3 days
Appreciate the perspective, but declaring a carbon-free future dead is vastly premature. Political shifts offer temporary lifelines, not per…
Australia’s new Ghost Shark drone submarine floods its own hull on purpose, sealing only what matters, vanishes at very long range to spy or strike, and comes back with answers, or not alone. Dozens just entered service
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@sls ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Great summary of the state of play. I disagree that the AUKUS subs are a nescessay component for our defense. The drone fleet will provide u…
@richardwade ROOKIE · 2 weeks
That's the whole idea of the crewed subs - to be a spear. If you cannot strike at an aggressor's territory you are destined to lose.
While America pays developers $2 billion to walk away from offshore wind, China just floated a 16 MW turbine taller than a skyscraper in deep open water, built to survive Category 5 hurricane winds
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@barbarajohnson ROOKIE · 3 weeks
Trump is supporting the oil based companies to the exclusion of all other energy sources. He will continue to add to greenhouse gasses becau…
@paulsheridan ROOKIE · 3 weeks
All this flannel, and we don't know if to works!!!!
@mylesbumgarner ROOKIE · 2 weeks
The orange pos is just plain stupid and the stupidity of his staff says its all
Britain just drilled its deepest hole ever, 3.3 miles into Cornish granite, and hit a natural nuclear reactor: rock so radioactive it heats water to 374°F, now powering 10,000 homes around the clock
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@garyf ROOKIE · 3 weeks
Umm. And what's done with the waste water? I can only imagine the environmental disaster that'll create for the greenies. They think that di…
@650max ROOKIE · 3 weeks
What waste water?
As per the article, hot water containing lithium comes out of a hole, much cooler water without the lithium goes down …
@barrtstarre ROOKIE · 3 weeks
The granite is not a natural nuclear reactor like the famous ancient natural fission reactors at Oklo Natural Nuclear Fission Reactors.
Cor…
Germany just switched on 124 nearly invisible turbines in the Rhine that keep generating after the sun sets and the wind dies — the one gap solar and wind never could close
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@philwoods ROOKIE · 3 weeks
Good read!
@mikesmith ROOKIE · 2 weeks
We have many river flows that meet the Energy fish's operating requirements in Canada. I'd like to see them tested or operating here.
Enough Wind Power for a Million Homes Was 47 Miles Off the New York Coast. The Government Paid Nearly $1 Billion to Make Sure It Never Gets Built — Now Seven States Are Suing to Stop It
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@joed ROOKIE · 3 weeks
i think biden was trying put the oil companies out of business and trump is doing what he said he would before he was elected, regarding eve…
Australia has no spare line to carry the load, so it’s replacing all 287 towers on a corridor energized since 1949 without ever cutting power to its iron-ore industry and renewable grid
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@rupert ROOKIE · 3 weeks
A good article showing what engineers not pol liticians can do
The steel rebar inside every bridge and parking deck starts rusting the day it goes in, and a UAE team just 3D-printed a wavy plastic version that reaches 80% of steel’s strength and never corrodes at all
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@peter ROOKIE · 3 weeks
There is a major factor missing from this article. The limiting factor will not be the tensile strength, hut the tensile modulus. This will …
@paulabbott ROOKIE · 3 weeks
Not to mention the shape code deviations, always the biggest problem for GFRP rebar. Stainless Steel is still the best alternative both envi…
@lawrencestacy ROOKIE · 3 weeks
You simply do not know in reality how long it will last and or how it will react in real world use over 100s of years. Modeling only does so…
Your parked EV holds enough power to run your home for days. A US program testing whether you can sell that back found the real wall isn’t the grid — it’s a $30,000 charger and a solar rule that fights it
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@everettpeacock ROOKIE · 3 weeks
$200 per kWH? That must be a typo
Warships have run on nuclear reactors since the 1950s, but cargo ships never dared. An American-Israeli alliance just unveiled a barge built around a container-sized fusion reactor instead
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@helium5sports ROOKIE · 3 weeks
"Warships have run on nuclear reactors since the 1950s, but cargo ships never dared."
See N.S. Savannah.
@garyholman ROOKIE · 3 weeks
Never dared? I am pretty sure the NV Savannah Launched July 1959 and is available to tour in Baltimore was nuclear powered.
@timrobinson ROOKIE · 3 weeks
"... but cargo ships never dared." What about the NS Savannah???
The UK Took the Reactor Graphite It Was Going to Bury for Millennia, Drove the Radioactive Carbon Off as Gas, and Sealed It Inside a Diamond That Now Trickles Electricity on a 5,700-Year Clock
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@jameslewis ROOKIE · 4 weeks
The power output math can't be right. 1gram of C14 putting out power for a day comparable to a AA battery output for a day would seem pret…
@zacharyfreeman ROOKIE · 3 weeks
I crunched through all the calculations and ended up calculating that the average energy output in watts from the decay of 1g of carbon-14 (…
A Chinese Company Just Turned Land Rover’s Wobbly Little School-Run SUV Into a Five-Meter Electric Flagship Bigger Than a Defender — and Land Rover’s Own Boss Shrugged and Said “It’s Their Car Now”
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C ROOKIE · 4 weeks
"wobbly little school-run SUV" at least try and hide your bias when you write an article 😂
It’s Not a Plane, and It’s Not Quite a Boat. A Rhode Island Startup Built an Electric Craft Designed to Skim the Coast at 180 MPH, Inches Above the Waves
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@wellardbutt ROOKIE · 4 weeks
Is this not just an electric ekranoplan (see Caspian sea monster) known about for decades?
A Single Canadian Mine Has Been Leaking Hydrogen From Billion-Year-Old Rock for Over a Decade — About a Car Battery’s Worth From Each of Its 15,000 Boreholes. Nobody Had Ever Measured It Until Now
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@meandmyself ROOKIE · 4 weeks
We cannot do use this hydrogen because it will burn away our oxygen without producing CO2 that plants can synthesis to oxygen again
Germany Is Pulling Its Hydrogen Trains. Japan Never Scaled Its Own. India Just Built the World’s Longest One — Five Times the Length of the German Original — From Scratch
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@madhurkaicker ROOKIE · 4 weeks
It's a prototype to prove the engineering, next the techno-economic feasibility studies. Finally, the commercial viability of the project. T…
America taunted by Chinese electric pickup that’s only $18,000
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@alexdoy ROOKIE · 4 weeks
If it ever sold in the us.
It would cost more than 18000
If it sold under 30000 I would buy it.
Tesla Says Its Full Self-Driving Is Ten Times Safer Than a Human Driver. The People Who Train It Just Admitted They Wouldn’t Get in a Robotaxi ‘Even If You Paid Me’
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jaycee DRIVER · 1 month
What a load of total misinformed, anti Tesla FUD.. This entire article is a complete fabrication and doesn't have any relationship with the …
@imasharksfan ROOKIE · 1 month
Imagine that, former employees saying bad stuff about their former employer. Wow, first time in human history that’s ever happened. Folks we…
@etienneewankrge ROOKIE · 1 month
Sad ex wmployees detailing their own failures and commenting on old versions of the FSD stack. Why don't you bet against Elon and short his …
Ferrari Built a Four-Door the Purists Hated, Then Buried It. That Was 1980. The Single Prototype That Survived Now Costs Almost Exactly What Ferrari Is Charging for the New Luce
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@nathanj ROOKIE · 1 month
A person thinks, Ferrari beautiful, elegant, exotic, and they come up with this. My dog craps with more style.
Georgia Paved a Lane With Solar Panels and It Powers a Single EV Charger. Oregon Put the Same Panels Beside the Road and Makes a Hundred Times More. France Just Dug Up Its Version Entirely
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@gsccpa ROOKIE · 1 month
Excellent article. I've got three DIY off grid systems at my home. The Georgia vs. Oregon road comparisons are not oranges vs. oranges. I'm …
@pmdawnpm ROOKIE · 1 week
Anyone who drives on US highways know that on road solar will never work. I've always been an off highway guy. It just makes sense and reduc…
The U.S. Government Wants EV Owners to Pay $250 a Year for Road Damage. A British Trial Just Found a Graphene Asphalt That Lasts 165 Percent Longer Than Conventional Pavement
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S DRIVER · 1 month
That wouldnt work here in the towns around me here in New England. They will repave an entire street and weeks later it starts to get torn u…
@john ROOKIE · 1 month
When you can fit all of Europe into a single state in America. You lose the comparison. Imagine replacing all American roads, with this new …
@robhamper ROOKIE · 1 month
Sorry, but Texas, one of your biggest states, is only 26% bigger than France. Germany is larger than California. So, no, you can't fit all o…
Lucid Says the Gravity Grand Touring Goes 450 Miles on a Charge. The Real Working Range Is 360 Miles. And It Costs $55 to Get 250 of Them at a Fast Charger
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@seanvotier ROOKIE · 1 month
I'm on my fourth EV if you want to count my2011 Volt. A few times a year I make a 900 mile trip from CT to IN. The charging isn't convenient…
China Just Built a Working Battery That Stores Electricity and Hydrogen in the Same Device. The U.S. Government Just Cancelled $7.5 Billion in the Research That Could Compete
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homer10 DRIVER · 1 month
Big Oil supressing valuable battery technology. They have been doing this for over 100 years.
NormAndrew ROOKIE · 1 month
First: Private industry can now pick up the commercialization of the concept. In China, the government owns virtually everything so they dev…
@haroldtrujillo ROOKIE · 1 month
Because of course they did. "Dumb-old" Trump is indebted to Big Oil so why would his administration want this? Sad.
While British Homeowners Just Got the Right to Plug Solar Panels Into Any Wall Socket, the U.S. Just Made It Illegal to Install Your Own EV Charger Without an Electrician
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@joe ROOKIE · 1 month
Wellllllllll when you have the ppl that do the R worded things they do I can't imagine why they would create this rule. There are standards …
joe ROOKIE · 1 month
And also if they would give us simple plug into wall stuff then yes!!!! What are we doing. I have hate in me heart.
@xavierx ROOKIE · 1 month
This is not a valid comparison. Just because something is in NEC code doesn't dictate who can or can not perform the work, it just sets stan…
After a Year of Selling Electric Chargers That Nobody Wanted, Dodge Just Showed Detroit a New Model With a Massive Rear Wing Just Like the Banned Superbird
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@davidtorney ROOKIE · 1 month
Toys are for kids.
Florida Has 335,000 Electric Vehicles Registered and the Second-Highest EV Adoption in the Country. The State Has Spent Zero of the $198 Million the Federal Government Gave It to Build Chargers
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@nicecat ROOKIE · 1 month
The claim that Florida is a "charging desert" outside of coastal tourist corridors is highly misleading and does not reflect current data.
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A Texas Drainage District Walked Its Ditch on a Routine Inspection. They Found a Pipe They Didn’t Recognize Discharging Black Liquid From Tesla’s $1 Billion Lithium Refinery
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@peterdiehr ROOKIE · 1 month
Hexavalent Chromium is found in industrial effluents like electroplating, leather tanning, and dye manufacturing. Waste water treatment pla…
@mrmichigan14 ROOKIE · 1 month
How do you know this isn't a byproduct of the lithium production?
@robertpope ROOKIE · 3 weeks
Ah, another tRumpist Tesla srockholder....
Forget Lithium: This 400-Ton Concrete Sphere Sinking Off Long Beach Could Change How America Charges Its EVs
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@coneshot ROOKIE · 1 month
Best case, it does what it says. Worst case, it becomes a large artificial reef. As long as they don't place it in an ecologically sensitive…
@johningram ROOKIE · 1 month
A variation on the gravity battery using less efficient hydraulics with greater possible environmental impac
The Government Could Be About to Let Chinese EVs Into America — and Automakers Are Already Panicking
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@fixwarpfx ROOKIE · 2 months
If the data was safe; car companies wouldn't be sharing data with insurance, the feds, ICE, CBP, and add regulations to prevent drivers from…
fixwarpfx ROOKIE · 2 months
If the data were truly secure, car companies wouldn’t be sharing it with insurers, federal agencies, ICE, or CBP, nor using it to enforce dr…
@jackstrait ROOKIE · 1 month
I would much rather have automotive innovation pushed by industry competition than by tax credits. Bring on the Chinese cars.
The Cheapest New EV in America Just Returned for 2027 — and GM Is Only Making It for 18 Months
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@richardstolte ROOKIE · 2 months
Why is GM so dumb? If you have a popular car, that sells well, why stop at 18 months. I can see bringing new tech out as it matures, but I t…
Some Tesla Fans Paid $160,000 for a Special Edition. The ‘Exclusive’ Delivery Event Just Got Canceled
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@samuelcavazos ROOKIE · 2 months
There is a legend that has been passed around for ages in the underground. It says:
"Punch the world's richest man in the face and his weal…
@darylfortney ROOKIE · 2 months
wish they would have offered one to me and i'm not really even a fanboy, just want their best version of the S before it's unavailable. it'…