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SpaceX Starlink kit now available at select Home Depot stores

Teslarati

SpaceX Starlink standard kits are now available at select Home Depot stores. With Starlink, millennials can move out onto cheap land and build their own homes piecemeal with materials from [Home Depot].” First, customers can have the Starlink kit sent to the Home Depot store. Starlink will be huge for [Home Depot].

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Tesla expands self-serve test drives to destination chargers

Baua Electric

When someone used to place an order for a Tesla vehicle online in North America, the customer was assigned a “Tesla Advisor” at their local store to help manage the process leading up to the delivery. The company has been gradually implementing this new strategy in North America and expanded to Europe last year. Very 2020s.

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How to become a lifestyle brand on the cheap, or the China EV startup dilemma

China EV

I expect Beijing will come out with some kind of new plan to boost NEV sales in a few months. The big news in the EV startup sector while I was in China was, of course, NIO’s dismal results. And NIO chose some pricey though prestigious areas such as the Nanjing Lu area in Shanghai, to open its stores. Not unexpected.

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How Long Does an Electric Car Battery Last?

EV Connect

As lithium-ion batteries have decreased in cost by 97% over the last 30 years , experts believe that EVs will soon be as cheap to produce as ICE vehicles. And the news gets better: Tesla has their sights set on a million-mile battery , and claims that they are not far from achieving this goal. How Do EV Batteries Degrade?

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10 Reasons Your Next Car Should Be an EV

Plug in America

EVs Cost Less to Fuel Powering your ride with electricity costs about 60% less than buying gasoline. The good news is that EVs are starting to make a difference. Since most EVs are only in use a small fraction of each day, they can often charge when energy on the grid is clean, cheap, and abundant.

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SpaceX is building launch pad tanks out of Starship parts and that’s a big deal

Teslarati

For SpaceX to design and build its own custom bulk commodity storage tanks instead of buying what is arguably a fairly routine and cheap off-the-shelf technology, Starship production has to be DIRT CHEAP. tall (90ft) Starship-derived tanks that should be capable of storing ~2200 tons (4.9

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On National Golf Cart Day (seriously), here’s 10 ways they beat cars

Baua Electric

While most golf carts aren’t cheap, usually between US $8,000 to $12,000 depending on luxury features, they’re still much more affordable than a new car. Buying used can help lower costs, but there are also interesting new additions to the market such as the Kandi Mini golf cart, priced at just US $3,999.