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Tesla’s next vehicle: a humanoid robot?

Charged

At Tesla’s recent AI Day event, the company announced a number of new initiatives. It unveiled a new line of in-house-designed chips for its Dojo high-speed computer, which will power the next generation of Autopilot, and is now expected to be operational next year. The company also announced that new Full Self-Driving (FSD) hardware will be released along with the Cybertruck electric pickup truck in “about a year or so.”.

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The Quarter-Mile Electric Drag Bike World Record Now Stands At 6.74 Seconds!

CleanTechnica

The last time I met with the cool True Cousins Hans-Henrik Thomsen and Glenn Ellegaard Nielsen, they beat the world record with their mad electric door slammer TC-X, but that day they had some trouble with their bike. Since then they have gotten that Silver Lightning under control. I can’t even keep track of all […].

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13 Tips For Hang Drying Laundry & Saving The Planet With Your Undies

CleanTechnica

Hang drying clothes is a simple way to save massive amounts of energy. Hear me out — the statistics are startling. The average American family does 2300 pounds of laundry per year, and drying that, literal ton, of laundry in a clothes dryer uses close to 1000 kWh of electricity or one tenth of a […].

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Rain Fell On Greenland Ice Cap For 1st Time In Recorded History Last Week

CleanTechnica

Rain fell on the peak of the Greenland ice cap last week, something that hasn't happened in over 12,000 years.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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A Comment On Tesla AI Day: Have You EVER?!

CleanTechnica

By Roger Pressman, Founder of EVANNEX Have you ever watched a public presentation from a major automobile company that wasn’t sales and marketing associated with a specific vehicle? Have you ever observed a major automobile company do a public presentation that went into heavy technical detail about the systems that it uses to build its […].

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Tesla Switching to LFP Batteries for Standard Range Model 3 & Model Y

CleanTechnica

and using 2170 batteries in Austin and Brandenburg for starters.

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I Love You, Senators Blumenthal & Markey, But It’s A Huge Mistake To Go After Tesla — Who’s Misleading You?

CleanTechnica

Senators Richard Blumenthal and Ed Markey are two of the best political leaders in the United States, in my opinion, but one thing has led to another with Tesla coverage and seems to have dramatically misled Blumenthal and Markey — or their aids. I don’t expect these people to follow every nuanced step and story […].

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CleanTech Talk 1/2: CEO Karsten Temme Of PivotBio On Microbes Slashing Agriculture GHG Emissions

CleanTechnica

There's a reason why PivotBio has gone through several successful funding rounds, most recently a $430 million Series D round. Its product is not only good for the climate and good for crop yields, it makes farmers' lives easier.

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IPCC Report: Climate Change Is a Generational Justice Issue

CleanTechnica

Originally published by Union of Concerned Scientists, The Equation. By Christina Swanson How many times have we said this before? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) new report, its sixth since 1990, is a “wake-up call.” The report, authored by more than 200 scientists from across the globe and based on more than 14,000 individual […].