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Chinese company KargoBot created a Fully Autonomous Cabless Semi truck which is planned to go into production this year. • Purpose-built modular design • 800 km range (500 mi) on WLTC Cycle • 1,026 kWh CATL battery, with swapping capabilities • 25% compared to a traditional cabbed semi-truck •... show more

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This is the sound of the all-electric Tesla Semi. Deliveries of the new Production Version begin this year: • Long Range model has 500 miles of range with a full payload. • 1.7 kWh per mile efficiency (average diesel semis are roughly 5–7 kWh per mile equivalent energy use). • Tri-motor powertrain with 800 kW of power (~1,073 hp), 3x the power of the average diesel semi. • The battery in the Semi is designed to last 1M miles. • Standard Range model (325 mi) has a similar turning radius as a Tesla Model 3/Y. • 0.4 drag coefficient. • Independent truckers are able to buy a Semi for use, not just fleet owners. • Semi fleet uptime is at 95% due to extremely low maintenance and reliability. • Integrated safety features in the Semi protect not just the driver but others on the road as well. • Future wireless charging. • Semi uses the same 4680 battery cells found in the Cybertruck. • Semi can power a whole refrigeration trailer or any powered unit. The technology is shared with Cybertruck Powershare.

This is the sound of the all-electric Tesla Semi. Deliveries of the new Production Version begin this year: • Long Range model has 500 miles of range with a full payload. • 1.7 kWh per mile efficiency (average diesel semis are roughly 5–7 kWh per mile equivalent energy use). • Tri-motor powertrain with 800 kW of power (~1,073 hp), 3x the power of the average diesel semi. • The battery in the Semi is designed to last 1M miles. • Standard Range model (325 mi) has a similar turning radius as a Tesla Model 3/Y. • 0.4 drag coefficient. • Independent truckers are able to buy a Semi for use, not just fleet owners. • Semi fleet uptime is at 95% due to extremely low maintenance and reliability. • Integrated safety features in the Semi protect not just the driver but others on the road as well. • Future wireless charging. • Semi uses the same 4680 battery cells found in the Cybertruck. • Semi can power a whole refrigeration trailer or any powered unit. The technology is shared with Cybertruck Powershare.

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Chinese automaker BYD’s U9 Xtreme EV just hit a verified top speed of 496 km/h (308 mph) at Germany’s ATP proving grounds, making it the new fastest production car in the world, beating the Bugatti Chiron's 304.77 mph. • 2,978 hp • 80 kWh LFP battery • 1,200v platform • New track-grade LFP Blade Battery with dual-layer cooling, capable of 30C discharge rates for improved thermal management. Density of each cell is increased by 170% compared with the lower trim U9 800V system. • Up to 500 kW charging speed • Each of its four motors spin at a max of 30,000 RPM and is made of super thin 0.1mm silicon steel, a first in mass production

Chinese automaker BYD’s U9 Xtreme EV just hit a verified top speed of 496 km/h (308 mph) at Germany’s ATP proving grounds, making it the new fastest production car in the world, beating the Bugatti Chiron's 304.77 mph. • 2,978 hp • 80 kWh LFP battery • 1,200v platform • New track-grade LFP Blade Battery with dual-layer cooling, capable of 30C discharge rates for improved thermal management. Density of each cell is increased by 170% compared with the lower trim U9 800V system. • Up to 500 kW charging speed • Each of its four motors spin at a max of 30,000 RPM and is made of super thin 0.1mm silicon steel, a first in mass production

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🚨🇷🇺 RUSSIA UNVEILS NEW ANTI-DRONE RADAR THAT RENDERS NATO DRONES OUTDATED At a major security meeting, Rosoboronexport showed off two brand-new systems designed to spot, track, and destroy small enemy drones before they can hit important targets. 🔸 The RADESCAN-ANTIDRON radar can detect tiny drones (with just 0.01 m² radar signature) from 1.5 km away using very low power — making it hard for enemies to even notice it’s there. 🔸 The mobile YOLKA system mounts on a pickup truck with radar panels, infrared cameras, and two interceptor drones that can take down targets up to 3 km away and as high as 2 km. 🔸 It works in any weather, uses semi-automatic mode so an operator stays in control, and is perfect against swarms of low-flying drones. 🔸 The whole thing is already built and in field tests — next step is mass production Is NATO’s drone strategy about to become completely useless?

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Woah… the Tesla Semi is no joke. Tesla has engineered what might be the best Class 8 truck in the world. Straight from Jay Leno’s Garage review of the production model, here are the key stats: • 500-mile Long Range and 325-mile Standard Range options — both tested fully loaded at max payload (82,000 lbs gross combination weight) • 1.2 MW Megacharging recovers ~300 miles (~60% of the battery) in just 30 minutes — perfect timing for mandatory driver breaks • Aerodynamic drag coefficient of ~0.4 (7% improvement), thanks to the bullet-shaped cab and center-driver seating • Million-mile durable battery using the same advanced cells as the Cybertruck • Operating costs up to 50% lower than diesel in California and nearly 20% cheaper per mile nationwide — energy, maintenance, no oil changes • Jay Leno hauling 60-70k lbs GVW: “I don’t even feel like I’m pulling anything…” • Real-world fleet: over 13.5 million miles logged, with one truck approaching 440,000 miles at 95% uptime • ~1,000 lbs lighter overall + 2,000 lb EV weight exemption = true payload parity with diesel trucks • Insanely strong regenerative braking — descends steep grades at highway speed with almost zero service brake use • Proven in Alaska winters with efficient heat pump and minimal range loss • Turning radius like a Model 3/Y despite being a full-size Class 8 truck • New dedicated Semi factory near Giga Nevada is ramping high-volume production this year (tens of thousands annually) with strong fleet demand already locked in If I were running a logistics business, the Tesla Semi would be a no-brainer. Lower total cost of ownership, superior performance, zero tailpipe emissions, and a clear path to autonomy. Diesel’s days are numbered. 🚛⚡ Dan Priestley Tesla Semi Elon Musk

Woah… the Tesla Semi is no joke. Tesla has engineered what might be the best Class 8 truck in the world. Straight from Jay Leno’s Garage review of the production model, here are the key stats: • 500-mile Long Range and 325-mile Standard Range options — both tested fully loaded at max payload (82,000 lbs gross combination weight) • 1.2 MW Megacharging recovers ~300 miles (~60% of the battery) in just 30 minutes — perfect timing for mandatory driver breaks • Aerodynamic drag coefficient of ~0.4 (7% improvement), thanks to the bullet-shaped cab and center-driver seating • Million-mile durable battery using the same advanced cells as the Cybertruck • Operating costs up to 50% lower than diesel in California and nearly 20% cheaper per mile nationwide — energy, maintenance, no oil changes • Jay Leno hauling 60-70k lbs GVW: “I don’t even feel like I’m pulling anything…” • Real-world fleet: over 13.5 million miles logged, with one truck approaching 440,000 miles at 95% uptime • ~1,000 lbs lighter overall + 2,000 lb EV weight exemption = true payload parity with diesel trucks • Insanely strong regenerative braking — descends steep grades at highway speed with almost zero service brake use • Proven in Alaska winters with efficient heat pump and minimal range loss • Turning radius like a Model 3/Y despite being a full-size Class 8 truck • New dedicated Semi factory near Giga Nevada is ramping high-volume production this year (tens of thousands annually) with strong fleet demand already locked in If I were running a logistics business, the Tesla Semi would be a no-brainer. Lower total cost of ownership, superior performance, zero tailpipe emissions, and a clear path to autonomy. Diesel’s days are numbered. 🚛⚡ Dan Priestley Tesla Semi Elon Musk

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Elon Musk just weaponized gravity. The entire trucking industry has a physics leak bleeding billions. Musk just sealed it. Most people look at the Tesla Semi and see a cleaner diesel. A truck that swapped a gas tank for a battery. That is a complete misread of the physics. Musk: “Let’s say you’re going over a mountain range. In a diesel truck, you actually don’t capture the energy of height or potential energy.” For a century, freight has fought gravity twice on every mountain. A diesel truck burns thousands of dollars in fuel clawing its way to the peak. It arrives at the summit loaded with enormous gravitational potential energy. And what does it do with that energy? It throws it away as heat. Musk: “You have to actually spend a lot of money on expensive brakes going down the other side so you don’t run out of control.” Diesel burns twice. Fuel going up. Hardware coming down. A century of logistics, and the descent was never anything but a cost to be survived. The Tesla Semi doesn’t survive the descent. It harvests it. Musk: “An electric semi truck is able to recapture the gravitational potential energy and in fact puts the energy back in the pack.” Regenerative braking doesn’t just slow the truck. It converts 80,000 pounds of downhill momentum into raw electricity flowing back into the battery. The mountain stops being an obstacle. It becomes a power plant. Here is the thermodynamic reality the market is missing. Diesel is closed on the descent. There is no version of a combustion engine that turns downhill momentum back into liquid fuel. It is structurally impossible. Electric is open in both directions. The same system that spends energy to climb gets paid on the way down. Wall Street keeps pricing the Tesla Semi on a cost-per-mile comparison. Kilowatts versus gallons. They are solving the wrong equation. You cannot win a price war against a machine that bills the planet for its own fuel.

Elon Musk just weaponized gravity. The entire trucking industry has a physics leak bleeding billions. Musk just sealed it. Most people look at the Tesla Semi and see a cleaner diesel. A truck that swapped a gas tank for a battery. That is a complete misread of the physics. Musk: “Let’s say you’re going over a mountain range. In a diesel truck, you actually don’t capture the energy of height or potential energy.” For a century, freight has fought gravity twice on every mountain. A diesel truck burns thousands of dollars in fuel clawing its way to the peak. It arrives at the summit loaded with enormous gravitational potential energy. And what does it do with that energy? It throws it away as heat. Musk: “You have to actually spend a lot of money on expensive brakes going down the other side so you don’t run out of control.” Diesel burns twice. Fuel going up. Hardware coming down. A century of logistics, and the descent was never anything but a cost to be survived. The Tesla Semi doesn’t survive the descent. It harvests it. Musk: “An electric semi truck is able to recapture the gravitational potential energy and in fact puts the energy back in the pack.” Regenerative braking doesn’t just slow the truck. It converts 80,000 pounds of downhill momentum into raw electricity flowing back into the battery. The mountain stops being an obstacle. It becomes a power plant. Here is the thermodynamic reality the market is missing. Diesel is closed on the descent. There is no version of a combustion engine that turns downhill momentum back into liquid fuel. It is structurally impossible. Electric is open in both directions. The same system that spends energy to climb gets paid on the way down. Wall Street keeps pricing the Tesla Semi on a cost-per-mile comparison. Kilowatts versus gallons. They are solving the wrong equation. You cannot win a price war against a machine that bills the planet for its own fuel.

Dustin

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Bill Gates walked into the Tesla Gigafactory and declared the long-range electric semi impossible. The truck was already in production. Pepsi was running it on live routes. Musk: “I was like, well, but we literally have them. And you can drive them. And Pepsi is literally using them right now.” Gates was standing inside the factory that built the vehicle he was dismissing. It existed. It was moving freight. Musk: “He’s like, ‘No, no, it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work.’ And I’m like… I’m kind of stuck here.” Musk didn’t argue. He asked for the math. Musk: “You must think we can’t achieve the energy density of the battery pack, or that the watt-hours per mile of the truck is too high. Which one of those numbers do you think we have wrong, and what numbers do you think are correct?” Gates didn’t have wrong numbers. He had no numbers. Musk: “He didn’t know any of the numbers.” The co-founder of Microsoft walked into an operating factory, stood next to a truck hauling Pepsi’s freight, and declared it impossible without a single figure. No energy density. No efficiency metric. No math. Just conviction wearing a $130 billion net worth as a credential. Musk: “Doesn’t it seem that it’s perhaps premature to conclude that a long-range semi cannot work if you do not know the energy density of the battery pack or the energy efficiency of the truck chassis?” One question. Nowhere left to stand. Musk: “You’d think he’d be really quite strong in the sciences. But actually, he is not strong in the sciences. It is really surprising.” Gates built his empire on software. Abstraction. Code that never has to satisfy a physics equation. Musk builds in atoms. Battery cells have energy densities. Truck chassis have drag coefficients. A semi either makes the route or it doesn’t. There is no patch. Physics does not negotiate. Thirty years inside abstraction and a man starts believing his intuition applies everywhere. It doesn’t. The truck exists. The routes are logged. Pepsi is running them. Gates declared it impossible and couldn’t produce the math to prove it. The truck already had.

Bill Gates walked into the Tesla Gigafactory and declared the long-range electric semi impossible. The truck was already in production. Pepsi was running it on live routes. Musk: “I was like, well, but we literally have them. And you can drive them. And Pepsi is literally using them right now.” Gates was standing inside the factory that built the vehicle he was dismissing. It existed. It was moving freight. Musk: “He’s like, ‘No, no, it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work.’ And I’m like… I’m kind of stuck here.” Musk didn’t argue. He asked for the math. Musk: “You must think we can’t achieve the energy density of the battery pack, or that the watt-hours per mile of the truck is too high. Which one of those numbers do you think we have wrong, and what numbers do you think are correct?” Gates didn’t have wrong numbers. He had no numbers. Musk: “He didn’t know any of the numbers.” The co-founder of Microsoft walked into an operating factory, stood next to a truck hauling Pepsi’s freight, and declared it impossible without a single figure. No energy density. No efficiency metric. No math. Just conviction wearing a $130 billion net worth as a credential. Musk: “Doesn’t it seem that it’s perhaps premature to conclude that a long-range semi cannot work if you do not know the energy density of the battery pack or the energy efficiency of the truck chassis?” One question. Nowhere left to stand. Musk: “You’d think he’d be really quite strong in the sciences. But actually, he is not strong in the sciences. It is really surprising.” Gates built his empire on software. Abstraction. Code that never has to satisfy a physics equation. Musk builds in atoms. Battery cells have energy densities. Truck chassis have drag coefficients. A semi either makes the route or it doesn’t. There is no patch. Physics does not negotiate. Thirty years inside abstraction and a man starts believing his intuition applies everywhere. It doesn’t. The truck exists. The routes are logged. Pepsi is running them. Gates declared it impossible and couldn’t produce the math to prove it. The truck already had.

Dustin

609,534 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce

I just rode in a Zoox robotaxi, which is owned by Amazon. It was a 7.6-mile, 25-minute loop along the Las Vegas Strip and back. Some background: Zoox uses cameras, lidars, radar, and long-wave infrared sensors. Their test vehicles build 3D maps of the city. The vehicle has four-wheel steering and has no front or back, so it can go in any direction. Overall, it was a pretty good experience. I’d like to see seat comfort improve as they were too firm and ergonomics weren't great, although I know this is just a test vehicle. There was an interesting interaction with a semi truck on the side of the road, but the rest of the ride went well. Both the adaptive suspension and quietness level in the robotaxi were good. Below is a video of my experience. (Not sponsored)

I just rode in a Zoox robotaxi, which is owned by Amazon. It was a 7.6-mile, 25-minute loop along the Las Vegas Strip and back. Some background: Zoox uses cameras, lidars, radar, and long-wave infrared sensors. Their test vehicles build 3D maps of the city. The vehicle has four-wheel steering and has no front or back, so it can go in any direction. Overall, it was a pretty good experience. I’d like to see seat comfort improve as they were too firm and ergonomics weren't great, although I know this is just a test vehicle. There was an interesting interaction with a semi truck on the side of the road, but the rest of the ride went well. Both the adaptive suspension and quietness level in the robotaxi were good. Below is a video of my experience. (Not sponsored)

Sawyer Merritt

539,713 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce

🇩🇪 BREAKING | The German defense giant Rheinmetall is entering a new phase of capacity expansion, as a result of which the assembly and filling process for 155-mm artillery shells will start at the plant in Unterlüß either this or next month. According to the schedule, the new enterprise in Lower Saxony will reach its design capacity of 350,000 shells per year after a full ramp-up. Taking into account the modernization of existing lines and the planned doubling of production in Ukraine from 150 to 300 thousand units, the total capacity of the concern by 2027 will reach an impressive 1.1 million shells, with a further growth prospect to 1.4–1.5 million units. The scale of these figures is particularly noteworthy against the backdrop that just a few years ago, such a production volume corresponded to the total output of all of Europe. Also, as noted, the company's CEO Armin Papperger is betting on creating a fully autonomous chain, where gunpowder, explosives, and shell casings are produced within the structure of a single company. All this not only minimizes logistical risks, but also transforms a single private concern into an industrial giant capable of meeting critical needs on a continent-wide scale. See the latest updates with us: Visioner

🇩🇪 BREAKING | The German defense giant Rheinmetall is entering a new phase of capacity expansion, as a result of which the assembly and filling process for 155-mm artillery shells will start at the plant in Unterlüß either this or next month. According to the schedule, the new enterprise in Lower Saxony will reach its design capacity of 350,000 shells per year after a full ramp-up. Taking into account the modernization of existing lines and the planned doubling of production in Ukraine from 150 to 300 thousand units, the total capacity of the concern by 2027 will reach an impressive 1.1 million shells, with a further growth prospect to 1.4–1.5 million units. The scale of these figures is particularly noteworthy against the backdrop that just a few years ago, such a production volume corresponded to the total output of all of Europe. Also, as noted, the company's CEO Armin Papperger is betting on creating a fully autonomous chain, where gunpowder, explosives, and shell casings are produced within the structure of a single company. All this not only minimizes logistical risks, but also transforms a single private concern into an industrial giant capable of meeting critical needs on a continent-wide scale. See the latest updates with us: Visioner

Visioner

109,121 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce

Direct Drive Tech has officially launched the D1, calling it the world's first fully modular embodied intelligence robot. Built on a system-level co-architecture and designed for "swarm collaboration," the D1 is presented as a solution for addressing general embodied intelligence challenges across various applications. The D1's key selling point is its "All-Domain Splicing" capability, which allows it to combine in multiple modes (wheel-leg to wheel-leg, leg-to-leg, wheel-leg to leg) to build a flexible motion system. It achieves high performance, supporting a maximum load of 100 kg in four-wheel crawl mode and 80 kg in standing mode. Furthermore, the D1 boasts enhanced endurance, with a tested empty-load range of over 25 km and a runtime exceeding 5 hours in dual wheel-leg mode. This extended battery life aims to reduce charging frequency and increase efficiency in applications like outdoor inspection, materials transfer, and scene services.

Direct Drive Tech has officially launched the D1, calling it the world's first fully modular embodied intelligence robot. Built on a system-level co-architecture and designed for "swarm collaboration," the D1 is presented as a solution for addressing general embodied intelligence challenges across various applications. The D1's key selling point is its "All-Domain Splicing" capability, which allows it to combine in multiple modes (wheel-leg to wheel-leg, leg-to-leg, wheel-leg to leg) to build a flexible motion system. It achieves high performance, supporting a maximum load of 100 kg in four-wheel crawl mode and 80 kg in standing mode. Furthermore, the D1 boasts enhanced endurance, with a tested empty-load range of over 25 km and a runtime exceeding 5 hours in dual wheel-leg mode. This extended battery life aims to reduce charging frequency and increase efficiency in applications like outdoor inspection, materials transfer, and scene services.

RoboHub🤖

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The Cybercab is aiming to produce 2 million units per year. Let this sink in. Today, Tesla produces about ~1.7 million vehicles per year total, across its entire lineup. And now Tesla is preparing to outproduce that with one single vehicle, a fully autonomous one. This is Elon and Tesla going ALL-IN on autonomy. Production is scheduled to start April 2026 at Giga Texas, with volume ramping throughout the year. And as of early 2026, Cybercab prototypes are already being tested around the U.S. The Tesla Cybercab is built from the ground up for unsupervised autonomy. There is no steering wheel and no pedals, just cameras, AI, and Tesla’s custom inference computers. No lidar and radar like other companies, just pure vision and software. Elon put it best on the Q3 2024 earnings call: “It’s not just a revolutionary vehicle design, but a revolution in vehicle manufacturing that is also coming with the Cybercab.” That quote matters a lot bc that means the entire way a vehicle is manufactured is changing with the Cybercab. Tesla is designing what Elon calls “the machine that builds the machine.” The Cybercab uses Tesla’s unboxed manufacturing process, where major sections are built in parallel instead of one long assembly line. There are fewer parts, less steps & cost, and faster scale. That’s how you make 2 million Cybercabs per year possible. FYI, this is not going to be easy though. Elon has been brutally honest about production for many years: • “Prototypes are easy, production is hard.” • “The extreme difficulty of scaling production of new technology is poorly understood. It’s 1000% to 10,000% harder than making a few prototypes.” • “For cars, it’s maybe 100 times harder to design the manufacturing system than the car itself.” He reinforced this again in January 2026 when talking about Cybercab and Optimus on 𝕏: “Initial production is always very slow and follows an S-curve. The speed of the production ramp is inversely proportional to how many new parts and steps there are. For Cybercab and Optimus, almost everything is new, so the early production rate will be agonizingly slow - but eventually end up being insanely fast.” This is the key thing most people miss about Tesla manufacturing. Early output will be slow by design. Almost everything is new like the vehicle architecture, factory layout, AI hardware, and manufacturing flow. But once it works and clicks, it begins to scale hard. Tesla already proved they can do this. They survived Model 3 production hell. They turned Model Y into the BEST selling car in the world, of any kind. They ramped Cybertruck, which has over 30,000+ unique parts, to meaningful volume. Elon summed it up perfectly in 2024: “Compared to the insane pain of reaching high volume, positive margin production, prototypes are a piece of cake.” That’s why Tesla makes manufacturing look easy bc they already earned the scars from the last vehicle lineups. The Cybercab is aiming to be: 1/ Under $30,000 price 2/ ~$0.20 per mile operating cost 3/ 200+ mile range 4/ Up to 5x utilization vs personal cars 5/ Designed to run nearly nonstop 24/7 This is what you call manufacturing + AI + autonomy converging at scale. The competitors are still showing prototypes and demos, while Tesla is building new production lines, expanding factories, and actually building the product. I remember when Elon told me in the past that one of Tesla’s key advantage long term was going to be manufacturing technology. I get it now.

The Cybercab is aiming to produce 2 million units per year. Let this sink in. Today, Tesla produces about ~1.7 million vehicles per year total, across its entire lineup. And now Tesla is preparing to outproduce that with one single vehicle, a fully autonomous one. This is Elon and Tesla going ALL-IN on autonomy. Production is scheduled to start April 2026 at Giga Texas, with volume ramping throughout the year. And as of early 2026, Cybercab prototypes are already being tested around the U.S. The Tesla Cybercab is built from the ground up for unsupervised autonomy. There is no steering wheel and no pedals, just cameras, AI, and Tesla’s custom inference computers. No lidar and radar like other companies, just pure vision and software. Elon put it best on the Q3 2024 earnings call: “It’s not just a revolutionary vehicle design, but a revolution in vehicle manufacturing that is also coming with the Cybercab.” That quote matters a lot bc that means the entire way a vehicle is manufactured is changing with the Cybercab. Tesla is designing what Elon calls “the machine that builds the machine.” The Cybercab uses Tesla’s unboxed manufacturing process, where major sections are built in parallel instead of one long assembly line. There are fewer parts, less steps & cost, and faster scale. That’s how you make 2 million Cybercabs per year possible. FYI, this is not going to be easy though. Elon has been brutally honest about production for many years: • “Prototypes are easy, production is hard.” • “The extreme difficulty of scaling production of new technology is poorly understood. It’s 1000% to 10,000% harder than making a few prototypes.” • “For cars, it’s maybe 100 times harder to design the manufacturing system than the car itself.” He reinforced this again in January 2026 when talking about Cybercab and Optimus on 𝕏: “Initial production is always very slow and follows an S-curve. The speed of the production ramp is inversely proportional to how many new parts and steps there are. For Cybercab and Optimus, almost everything is new, so the early production rate will be agonizingly slow - but eventually end up being insanely fast.” This is the key thing most people miss about Tesla manufacturing. Early output will be slow by design. Almost everything is new like the vehicle architecture, factory layout, AI hardware, and manufacturing flow. But once it works and clicks, it begins to scale hard. Tesla already proved they can do this. They survived Model 3 production hell. They turned Model Y into the BEST selling car in the world, of any kind. They ramped Cybertruck, which has over 30,000+ unique parts, to meaningful volume. Elon summed it up perfectly in 2024: “Compared to the insane pain of reaching high volume, positive margin production, prototypes are a piece of cake.” That’s why Tesla makes manufacturing look easy bc they already earned the scars from the last vehicle lineups. The Cybercab is aiming to be: 1/ Under $30,000 price 2/ ~$0.20 per mile operating cost 3/ 200+ mile range 4/ Up to 5x utilization vs personal cars 5/ Designed to run nearly nonstop 24/7 This is what you call manufacturing + AI + autonomy converging at scale. The competitors are still showing prototypes and demos, while Tesla is building new production lines, expanding factories, and actually building the product. I remember when Elon told me in the past that one of Tesla’s key advantage long term was going to be manufacturing technology. I get it now.

Teslaconomics

31,985 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce

ROBOTRUCKING (Tesla semi + FSD 14) can be more profitable than robotaxi. Everyone is missing the potential profitability and stock impact of Tesla's Semi truck equipped with Full Self-Driving (FSD), transforming it into a robotruck. FSD is making solid progress in Austin and FSD 14 will be released in September with 10X the parameters. Test pilot production has started for Tesla Semi as the factory in Nevada is done. Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Herbert Ong Dave Lee Warren Redlich - Chasing Dreams 🇺🇸 Randy Kirk stevenmarkryan Sawyer Merritt ARK Invest Elon Musk Robotrucks could generate 10x the profit of Tesla's Cybercab robo taxis, with each truck potentially yielding $650,000 in annual profit compared to $50,000–$70,000 per year for a robotaxi. This is driven by trucks' ability to operate 22 hours/day, covering 200,000–350,000 miles/year (4–7x more than taxis), while maintaining similar revenue per mile ($2–$2.60) and lower costs (32–34 cents/mile total ownership cost without drivers). Production is ramping up to 50,000 units/year, and FSD is progressing rapidly. Unlike robo taxis, which may face revenue drops competing with personal cars (down to 70 cents/mile), trucking is purely commercial with a stable $2 trillion global market. This will drive massive Tesla valuation growth: conservative estimates add $3,000–$6,000 to share price by 2030, while capturing the full market could reach $80 trillion (including robotaxis) in share value. Optimus robots could further boost efficiency and demand by 4x, enabling new logistics and economic growth.

ROBOTRUCKING (Tesla semi + FSD 14) can be more profitable than robotaxi. Everyone is missing the potential profitability and stock impact of Tesla's Semi truck equipped with Full Self-Driving (FSD), transforming it into a robotruck. FSD is making solid progress in Austin and FSD 14 will be released in September with 10X the parameters. Test pilot production has started for Tesla Semi as the factory in Nevada is done. Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Herbert Ong Dave Lee Warren Redlich - Chasing Dreams 🇺🇸 Randy Kirk stevenmarkryan Sawyer Merritt ARK Invest Elon Musk Robotrucks could generate 10x the profit of Tesla's Cybercab robo taxis, with each truck potentially yielding $650,000 in annual profit compared to $50,000–$70,000 per year for a robotaxi. This is driven by trucks' ability to operate 22 hours/day, covering 200,000–350,000 miles/year (4–7x more than taxis), while maintaining similar revenue per mile ($2–$2.60) and lower costs (32–34 cents/mile total ownership cost without drivers). Production is ramping up to 50,000 units/year, and FSD is progressing rapidly. Unlike robo taxis, which may face revenue drops competing with personal cars (down to 70 cents/mile), trucking is purely commercial with a stable $2 trillion global market. This will drive massive Tesla valuation growth: conservative estimates add $3,000–$6,000 to share price by 2030, while capturing the full market could reach $80 trillion (including robotaxis) in share value. Optimus robots could further boost efficiency and demand by 4x, enabling new logistics and economic growth.

nextbigfuture

63,408 görüntüleme • 11 ay önce

The Tesla Semi is about to take over the world. It beats traditional diesel trucks on every single thing.....from cost and performance to future-proofing and the real-world financial data proves it Its futuristic design just stole the show right in the middle of Times Square 🗽 Here is why fleet operators are making the switch: • Operating costs are insanely low: $0.15-$0.25 per mile compared to $0.50-$0.70 for diesel • Positive ROI hits well before the standard diesel replacement cycle • Zero diesel aftertreatment and fewer moving parts mean near-zero maintenance • Over-the-air updates ensure the truck actually gets better over time • Tesla is now entering high-volume production in 2026 (targeting 50k units/year) to meet massive global demand It is already gearing up for European expansion, with Giga Berlin preparing to build models for Germany and beyond Diesel days are officially on a countdown

The Tesla Semi is about to take over the world. It beats traditional diesel trucks on every single thing.....from cost and performance to future-proofing and the real-world financial data proves it Its futuristic design just stole the show right in the middle of Times Square 🗽 Here is why fleet operators are making the switch: • Operating costs are insanely low: $0.15-$0.25 per mile compared to $0.50-$0.70 for diesel • Positive ROI hits well before the standard diesel replacement cycle • Zero diesel aftertreatment and fewer moving parts mean near-zero maintenance • Over-the-air updates ensure the truck actually gets better over time • Tesla is now entering high-volume production in 2026 (targeting 50k units/year) to meet massive global demand It is already gearing up for European expansion, with Giga Berlin preparing to build models for Germany and beyond Diesel days are officially on a countdown

X Freeze

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Video: World’s first humanoid robot labor that swaps its own batteries to work endlessly | Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering Walker S2 uses dual-battery balancing and standardized modules to boost efficiency and ensure uninterrupted, optimized performance. In a leap for robotics, China’s UBTech has unveiled the Walker S2, the world’s first humanoid robot capable of fully autonomous battery swapping. Designed for non-stop industrial operations, the Walker S2 can replace its own power pack in just three minutes—no human intervention required. Equipped with advanced anthropomorphic bipedal locomotion and a hot-swappable battery system, Walker S2 is built to operate 24/7 across dynamic industrial environments. According to UBTech, the next-generation humanoid robot marks a major milestone in automation, bringing continuous, hands-free performance to the factory floor. In May 2025, UBTech Robotics and Huawei Technologies inked a significant partnership to accelerate the adoption of humanoid robots across China’s factories and households. Uninterrupted robot operations A video posted by the robotics firm opens with the sleek UBTech Walker S2 humanoid robot working in an industrial setting. The highlight, however, is its autonomous battery swap. Walker S2 approaches the charging station, carefully detaches its depleted power pack, and seamlessly installs a fresh one—all within about three minutes—without any human assistance, according to CGTN. The camera captures close-ups of the robot’s articulated limbs and the intelligent battery-handling mechanism, conveying precision and reliability. As the swap completes, Walker S2 resumes its duties, reinforcing the promise of uninterrupted, 24/7 operations in dynamic factory environments. UBTech’s Walker S2 humanoid robot is equipped with advanced dual-battery power balancing technology and uses standardized battery modules to optimize performance, reports CNEVPOST. This dual-battery system allows the robot to automatically switch to a backup battery in case of a main battery failure, ensuring that critical tasks are carried out without interruption. In addition to battery swapping, the robot can intelligently choose between charging and swapping based on task urgency, allowing it to manage energy dynamically and adapt to real-time operational demands. UBTech highlights these features as a step forward in deploying humanoid robots for industrial and domestic applications, combining flexibility, reliability, and autonomy in one intelligent platform. Factory intelligence upgrade Earlier in the year, UBTech unveiled a major advancement in humanoid robot collaboration, claiming the world’s first deployment of multiple humanoids working together across varied industrial tasks. Demonstrated at Zeekr’s 5G-enabled smart factory, the breakthrough centers on UBTech’s “BrainNet” framework, which orchestrates cooperative behavior through a cloud-device intelligence system. BrainNet integrates a “super brain” for high-level decision-making with an “intelligent sub-brain” for distributed multi-robot control. The super brain, powered by a proprietary large-scale multimodal reasoning model, handles complex production-line scheduling and decision-making. Meanwhile, the sub-brain coordinates real-time tasks using cross-field perception and Transformer-based control for dynamic adaptability. Together, they enable the Walker S1 humanoid robots to move beyond isolated operations and perform coordinated tasks with high precision and speed. The system is built on DeepSeek-R1 reasoning technology and trained on real-world data from automotive factory settings. Leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), the model adapts to specific job functions and improves scalability across workstations. At Zeekr’s facility, dozens of Walker S1s now collaborate on tasks like assembly, inspection, and part handling. Using semantic VSLAM and shared mapping, they coordinate seamlessly via vision-based navigation and agile manipulation. UBTech says this marks a transition to “Practical Training 2.0,” where humanoid robots operate as a swarm, maximizing efficiency and setting the stage for next-generation intelligent manufacturing.

Video: World’s first humanoid robot labor that swaps its own batteries to work endlessly | Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering Walker S2 uses dual-battery balancing and standardized modules to boost efficiency and ensure uninterrupted, optimized performance. In a leap for robotics, China’s UBTech has unveiled the Walker S2, the world’s first humanoid robot capable of fully autonomous battery swapping. Designed for non-stop industrial operations, the Walker S2 can replace its own power pack in just three minutes—no human intervention required. Equipped with advanced anthropomorphic bipedal locomotion and a hot-swappable battery system, Walker S2 is built to operate 24/7 across dynamic industrial environments. According to UBTech, the next-generation humanoid robot marks a major milestone in automation, bringing continuous, hands-free performance to the factory floor. In May 2025, UBTech Robotics and Huawei Technologies inked a significant partnership to accelerate the adoption of humanoid robots across China’s factories and households. Uninterrupted robot operations A video posted by the robotics firm opens with the sleek UBTech Walker S2 humanoid robot working in an industrial setting. The highlight, however, is its autonomous battery swap. Walker S2 approaches the charging station, carefully detaches its depleted power pack, and seamlessly installs a fresh one—all within about three minutes—without any human assistance, according to CGTN. The camera captures close-ups of the robot’s articulated limbs and the intelligent battery-handling mechanism, conveying precision and reliability. As the swap completes, Walker S2 resumes its duties, reinforcing the promise of uninterrupted, 24/7 operations in dynamic factory environments. UBTech’s Walker S2 humanoid robot is equipped with advanced dual-battery power balancing technology and uses standardized battery modules to optimize performance, reports CNEVPOST. This dual-battery system allows the robot to automatically switch to a backup battery in case of a main battery failure, ensuring that critical tasks are carried out without interruption. In addition to battery swapping, the robot can intelligently choose between charging and swapping based on task urgency, allowing it to manage energy dynamically and adapt to real-time operational demands. UBTech highlights these features as a step forward in deploying humanoid robots for industrial and domestic applications, combining flexibility, reliability, and autonomy in one intelligent platform. Factory intelligence upgrade Earlier in the year, UBTech unveiled a major advancement in humanoid robot collaboration, claiming the world’s first deployment of multiple humanoids working together across varied industrial tasks. Demonstrated at Zeekr’s 5G-enabled smart factory, the breakthrough centers on UBTech’s “BrainNet” framework, which orchestrates cooperative behavior through a cloud-device intelligence system. BrainNet integrates a “super brain” for high-level decision-making with an “intelligent sub-brain” for distributed multi-robot control. The super brain, powered by a proprietary large-scale multimodal reasoning model, handles complex production-line scheduling and decision-making. Meanwhile, the sub-brain coordinates real-time tasks using cross-field perception and Transformer-based control for dynamic adaptability. Together, they enable the Walker S1 humanoid robots to move beyond isolated operations and perform coordinated tasks with high precision and speed. The system is built on DeepSeek-R1 reasoning technology and trained on real-world data from automotive factory settings. Leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), the model adapts to specific job functions and improves scalability across workstations. At Zeekr’s facility, dozens of Walker S1s now collaborate on tasks like assembly, inspection, and part handling. Using semantic VSLAM and shared mapping, they coordinate seamlessly via vision-based navigation and agile manipulation. UBTech says this marks a transition to “Practical Training 2.0,” where humanoid robots operate as a swarm, maximizing efficiency and setting the stage for next-generation intelligent manufacturing.

Owen Gregorian

35,637 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

Congrats to the Tesla team. This is a watershed moment for freight in America. $0.15/mile EV vs ~$0.50 diesel ($0.60+ when diesel spikes) Operating costs are the hero. Once fleets see it at scale and production ramps, sales will rocket. EV trucks will take over the roads. Extended POV: This isn’t about specs. It’s about economics under utilisation. Freight is brutal: high miles, heavy loads, tight margins. That’s exactly where EVs dominate. Core specs that matter: • Range: 325–500 miles (523–805 km) • Gross combination weight: up to ~82,000 lbs (37 t) • Energy use: ~1.7 kWh/mile fully loaded • Battery: ~600–900 kWh est • Motors: 3 independent rear motors Charging flips the model: • Megawatt charging (MCS) capable • ~60–70% in ~30 mins • ~400 miles recovered in a stop (real-world target) • Depot charging overnight = lowest cost energy Now the key part: At ~1.7 kWh/mile → $0.15/mile assumes ~$0.09/kWh depot energy Diesel: → ~6–7 mpg → $3–4/gal = ~$0.45–0.70/mile That gap is everything. And fleets scale that instantly. Then layer in: • near-zero idling losses • far less maintenance (no engine, gearbox, exhaust systems) • regenerative braking reducing wear • higher uptime And the system gets even stronger: → solar + battery depots pushing energy cost toward zero → load balancing across fleets → software routing + charging optimisation → predictable operating costs vs oil volatility This isn’t a truck upgrade. It’s a system rewrite. Diesel = fuel logistics Electric = energy + software Fleets don’t buy hype. They buy cost per mile. Once they hit scale production, it won’t be gradual. Fleet is where the system flips. ⚡🚛

Congrats to the Tesla team. This is a watershed moment for freight in America. $0.15/mile EV vs ~$0.50 diesel ($0.60+ when diesel spikes) Operating costs are the hero. Once fleets see it at scale and production ramps, sales will rocket. EV trucks will take over the roads. Extended POV: This isn’t about specs. It’s about economics under utilisation. Freight is brutal: high miles, heavy loads, tight margins. That’s exactly where EVs dominate. Core specs that matter: • Range: 325–500 miles (523–805 km) • Gross combination weight: up to ~82,000 lbs (37 t) • Energy use: ~1.7 kWh/mile fully loaded • Battery: ~600–900 kWh est • Motors: 3 independent rear motors Charging flips the model: • Megawatt charging (MCS) capable • ~60–70% in ~30 mins • ~400 miles recovered in a stop (real-world target) • Depot charging overnight = lowest cost energy Now the key part: At ~1.7 kWh/mile → $0.15/mile assumes ~$0.09/kWh depot energy Diesel: → ~6–7 mpg → $3–4/gal = ~$0.45–0.70/mile That gap is everything. And fleets scale that instantly. Then layer in: • near-zero idling losses • far less maintenance (no engine, gearbox, exhaust systems) • regenerative braking reducing wear • higher uptime And the system gets even stronger: → solar + battery depots pushing energy cost toward zero → load balancing across fleets → software routing + charging optimisation → predictable operating costs vs oil volatility This isn’t a truck upgrade. It’s a system rewrite. Diesel = fuel logistics Electric = energy + software Fleets don’t buy hype. They buy cost per mile. Once they hit scale production, it won’t be gradual. Fleet is where the system flips. ⚡🚛

Chris Meder

213,671 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

The Nordic Trio: A Tough Match for Russian Corvettes Russian corvettes are among the most heavily armed on the planet, but they would run into trouble against their Nordic counterparts. The Russian corvettes of the Karakurt class are the most heavily armed ones I know of. They carry Kalibr missiles with a range of 2,500 km and hypersonic Zircon missiles. They would be capable of inflicting significant damage on the entire European fleet, which lacks defenses against the Zircon. The Karakurt also features a version of the Pantsir system with a range of 40 km, tested for intercepting ballistic missiles. Yes, the Karakurt demonstrates how the concept of sea dominance can shift with even small vessels capable of projecting power over long distances. However, there is a trio that would serve as a formidable barrier to the Russian corvettes: the Skjold, Hamina, and Visby. The stealth corvettes from Finland, Sweden, and Norway would be a massive headache for the Karakurt, precisely because of their small size and stealth architecture. The Karakurt may possess Kalibr missiles with a 2,500 km range or Zircons capable of reaching nearly 1,000 km, but to locate their targets, the Karakurt relies on drones like the Altius-U, equipped with a multimode sensor suite and multiple capabilities. Facing this trio would not be an easy match for the Altius, precisely because these vessels are designed for operations in contested environments, with an emphasis on low observability. Imagine trying to locate the Skjold, with its advanced stealth design featuring radar-absorbent materials, angular shapes, and a drastically reduced RCS, weighing only 270 tons? On the Altius's radar, it might appear as a small fishing boat under good conditions. And what about the Hamina? Built with aluminum and a composite superstructure (Kevlar and absorbent materials), it reduces radar, thermal, magnetic, and acoustic signatures. With a very low RCS, it would blend into maritime clutter (waves and small objects), operating in silent mode with electronic jamming. And the Visby? This is the stealthiest of all. Made from carbon fiber composites, with angular shapes, retractable/embedded weapons, and reductions in all signatures (RCS up to 99% lower, IR, acoustic, magnetic, hydrodynamic wake), plus advanced jamming and optimized operations to deny aerial sensors. All of them leverage integration with archipelagos for natural camouflage. What could the Altius-U do? Its active radar would need to operate in high-resolution modes, with drastically reduced range (possibly just a few dozen km); EO/IR for optical/thermal identification at extreme close range; SIGINT/ELINT to capture any residual emissions. This would require multiple drones operating in a coordinated manner with much greater exposure, putting the drones at risk from anti-air defenses, plus a bit of luck. By this point, larger vessels might have already been turned into fish habitats by the Zircons and Kalibrs, but this trio would still be standing. The resilience of this trio would force the Karakurt to risk approaching and entering the range of the Nordic corvettes, which are well armed with modern missiles. To make it even harder, all three have ASW capabilities, which would require attention from submarines. The truth is that the Karakurt's target acquisition would only face difficulties in Nordic waters or regions within range of coastal batteries, putting the corvettes themselves at risk. But with greater range and lower visibility, the Russian corvettes would terrorize larger vessels. The Karakurt are capable of providing area denial over thousands of kilometers, demonstrating a new concept in naval area denial. Specifically at this case, The Altius-U would prioritize radar for wide-area scanning, followed by EO/IR and SIGINT for refinement, but the stealth of these corvettes reduces effective ranges and increases failure risks.

The Nordic Trio: A Tough Match for Russian Corvettes Russian corvettes are among the most heavily armed on the planet, but they would run into trouble against their Nordic counterparts. The Russian corvettes of the Karakurt class are the most heavily armed ones I know of. They carry Kalibr missiles with a range of 2,500 km and hypersonic Zircon missiles. They would be capable of inflicting significant damage on the entire European fleet, which lacks defenses against the Zircon. The Karakurt also features a version of the Pantsir system with a range of 40 km, tested for intercepting ballistic missiles. Yes, the Karakurt demonstrates how the concept of sea dominance can shift with even small vessels capable of projecting power over long distances. However, there is a trio that would serve as a formidable barrier to the Russian corvettes: the Skjold, Hamina, and Visby. The stealth corvettes from Finland, Sweden, and Norway would be a massive headache for the Karakurt, precisely because of their small size and stealth architecture. The Karakurt may possess Kalibr missiles with a 2,500 km range or Zircons capable of reaching nearly 1,000 km, but to locate their targets, the Karakurt relies on drones like the Altius-U, equipped with a multimode sensor suite and multiple capabilities. Facing this trio would not be an easy match for the Altius, precisely because these vessels are designed for operations in contested environments, with an emphasis on low observability. Imagine trying to locate the Skjold, with its advanced stealth design featuring radar-absorbent materials, angular shapes, and a drastically reduced RCS, weighing only 270 tons? On the Altius's radar, it might appear as a small fishing boat under good conditions. And what about the Hamina? Built with aluminum and a composite superstructure (Kevlar and absorbent materials), it reduces radar, thermal, magnetic, and acoustic signatures. With a very low RCS, it would blend into maritime clutter (waves and small objects), operating in silent mode with electronic jamming. And the Visby? This is the stealthiest of all. Made from carbon fiber composites, with angular shapes, retractable/embedded weapons, and reductions in all signatures (RCS up to 99% lower, IR, acoustic, magnetic, hydrodynamic wake), plus advanced jamming and optimized operations to deny aerial sensors. All of them leverage integration with archipelagos for natural camouflage. What could the Altius-U do? Its active radar would need to operate in high-resolution modes, with drastically reduced range (possibly just a few dozen km); EO/IR for optical/thermal identification at extreme close range; SIGINT/ELINT to capture any residual emissions. This would require multiple drones operating in a coordinated manner with much greater exposure, putting the drones at risk from anti-air defenses, plus a bit of luck. By this point, larger vessels might have already been turned into fish habitats by the Zircons and Kalibrs, but this trio would still be standing. The resilience of this trio would force the Karakurt to risk approaching and entering the range of the Nordic corvettes, which are well armed with modern missiles. To make it even harder, all three have ASW capabilities, which would require attention from submarines. The truth is that the Karakurt's target acquisition would only face difficulties in Nordic waters or regions within range of coastal batteries, putting the corvettes themselves at risk. But with greater range and lower visibility, the Russian corvettes would terrorize larger vessels. The Karakurt are capable of providing area denial over thousands of kilometers, demonstrating a new concept in naval area denial. Specifically at this case, The Altius-U would prioritize radar for wide-area scanning, followed by EO/IR and SIGINT for refinement, but the stealth of these corvettes reduces effective ranges and increases failure risks.

Patricia Marins

30,064 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce

NEWS: Ford has officially unveiled its new electric vehicle platform and its next-generation vehicle production system. Ford Universal EV Platform Details: • Reduces parts by 20% versus a typical vehicle, with 25% fewer fasteners, 40% fewer workstations dock-to-dock in the plant and 15% faster assembly time. • Ford says "Lower cost of ownership over five years than a three-year-old used Tesla Model Y." • Wiring harness in the new midsize truck; more than 4,000 feet (1.3 kilometers) shorter and 10 kilograms lighter than the one used in our first-gen electric SUV • Lithium iron phosphate (LFP) prismatic batteries enable space and weight and cost savings. It's a structural sub-assembly that also serves as the vehicle’s floor • The new midsize truck is forecasted to have more passenger room than the latest Toyota RAV4, even before you include the frunk and the truck bed. You can lock your surfboards or other gear in that bed – no roof rack or trailer hitch racks required • The new midsize truck will have a targeted 0-60 time as fast as a Mustang EcoBoost, with more downforce. Ford Universal EV Production System Details: • Transforming the traditional assembly line into an “assembly tree”. Instead of one long conveyor, three sub-assemblies run down their own lines simultaneously and then join together • Large single-piece aluminum unicastings replace dozens of smaller parts, enabling the front and rear of the vehicle to be assembled separately. • The front and rear are then combined with the third sub-assembly, the structural battery, which is independently assembled with seats, consoles and carpeting, to form the vehicle. • Parts travel down the assembly tree to operators in a kit. Within that kit, all fasteners, scanners and power tools required for the job are included. • Assembly of the new midsize electric truck could be up to 40% faster than Louisville Assembly Plant’s current vehicles. Some of that time will be reinvested into insourcing and automation to improve quality and cost, ultimately netting a 15% speed improvement. Ford: "A simple, efficient, flexible ecosystem to deliver a family of affordable, electric, software-defined vehicles – the first of which is a midsize, four-door electric pickup that will be assembled at Ford’s Louisville Assembly Plant for U.S. and export markets. Its launch is scheduled for 2027. It will have a target starting MSRP at about $30,000 USD." Ford says it is going to deliver a family of affordable, adaptable electric vehicles that offer multiple body styles for work and play — including for export — and whose LFP batteries will be assembled in America, not imported from China. Additional specifications for the midsize electric truck – including reveal date, starting price, EPA-estimated battery range, battery sizes and charge times – will be communicated later. Ford’s $2B investment in their Louisville Assembly Plant is in addition to its previously announced $3 billion investment in BlueOval Battery Park Michigan, which will build the prismatic LFP batteries for the midsize electric truck starting next year. Together, the investments total approximately $5 billion, and between the two plants, Ford expects to create or secure nearly 4,000 direct jobs.

NEWS: Ford has officially unveiled its new electric vehicle platform and its next-generation vehicle production system. Ford Universal EV Platform Details: • Reduces parts by 20% versus a typical vehicle, with 25% fewer fasteners, 40% fewer workstations dock-to-dock in the plant and 15% faster assembly time. • Ford says "Lower cost of ownership over five years than a three-year-old used Tesla Model Y." • Wiring harness in the new midsize truck; more than 4,000 feet (1.3 kilometers) shorter and 10 kilograms lighter than the one used in our first-gen electric SUV • Lithium iron phosphate (LFP) prismatic batteries enable space and weight and cost savings. It's a structural sub-assembly that also serves as the vehicle’s floor • The new midsize truck is forecasted to have more passenger room than the latest Toyota RAV4, even before you include the frunk and the truck bed. You can lock your surfboards or other gear in that bed – no roof rack or trailer hitch racks required • The new midsize truck will have a targeted 0-60 time as fast as a Mustang EcoBoost, with more downforce. Ford Universal EV Production System Details: • Transforming the traditional assembly line into an “assembly tree”. Instead of one long conveyor, three sub-assemblies run down their own lines simultaneously and then join together • Large single-piece aluminum unicastings replace dozens of smaller parts, enabling the front and rear of the vehicle to be assembled separately. • The front and rear are then combined with the third sub-assembly, the structural battery, which is independently assembled with seats, consoles and carpeting, to form the vehicle. • Parts travel down the assembly tree to operators in a kit. Within that kit, all fasteners, scanners and power tools required for the job are included. • Assembly of the new midsize electric truck could be up to 40% faster than Louisville Assembly Plant’s current vehicles. Some of that time will be reinvested into insourcing and automation to improve quality and cost, ultimately netting a 15% speed improvement. Ford: "A simple, efficient, flexible ecosystem to deliver a family of affordable, electric, software-defined vehicles – the first of which is a midsize, four-door electric pickup that will be assembled at Ford’s Louisville Assembly Plant for U.S. and export markets. Its launch is scheduled for 2027. It will have a target starting MSRP at about $30,000 USD." Ford says it is going to deliver a family of affordable, adaptable electric vehicles that offer multiple body styles for work and play — including for export — and whose LFP batteries will be assembled in America, not imported from China. Additional specifications for the midsize electric truck – including reveal date, starting price, EPA-estimated battery range, battery sizes and charge times – will be communicated later. Ford’s $2B investment in their Louisville Assembly Plant is in addition to its previously announced $3 billion investment in BlueOval Battery Park Michigan, which will build the prismatic LFP batteries for the midsize electric truck starting next year. Together, the investments total approximately $5 billion, and between the two plants, Ford expects to create or secure nearly 4,000 direct jobs.

Sawyer Merritt

202,060 görüntüleme • 11 ay önce

As the SDF-Damascus clashes unfolded, the Smelka border crossing between Iraq’s Kurdistan Region and the remaining SDF-controlled strip in northeast Syria saw its strategic importance come to the forefront: What remains little known is how Turkey has transformed Smelka into one of the most heavily surveilled border crossings in the Middle East. Turkey monitors and tracks this route through two key methods. First, no truck can cross Smelka without prior coordination with either the Barzani Charity Foundation or the KRG’s Joint Crisis Coordination Centre (JCC) which both have worked and coordinate with the Turkish authorities. Then there is the second layer, which is more decisive: Turkey’s surveillance advantage at this specific location. Smelka is not deep inside Syrian territory. It sits just over a kilometer from the Turkish border. The crossing area on the Iraq-Syria side is relatively flat, but the Turkish side overlooking it rises to higher ground, creating natural sightlines and making long-range observation easier than at many other crossings. At the tri-border area, the Turkish side includes facilities and elevated points that function, in effect, as persistent monitoring positions. From these elevated positions, Turkey uses advanced electro-optical systems such as Aselsan’s DragonEye, a system specifically designed for border surveillance that can read every truck’s licence plate, identify the driver’s face, and see exactly what the cargo looks like from the outside, even at night. These systems use thermal imaging, allowing them to observe traffic just as clearly in pitch-black darkness. Over a thousand DragonEye units have been delivered to Turkish border forces and security posts for precisely this purpose. Turkey’s thermal profiling tools add another layer. They use thermal imagers to examine truck engines and cargo areas. From a distance, they can tell if a truck is a refrigerated unit but the cooling system is off, yet the driver is acting secretively: a red flag. If a truck is a canvas-covered flatbed, thermal cameras can easily detect the heat signatures of people hiding inside the cargo area. Turkey also operates sophisticated signals intelligence arrays in this border triangle, capabilities that have been documented providing real-time SIGINT and electronic intelligence to Turkish joint command centres during cross-border operations. They do not just watch the truck; they listen to the driver’s mobile phone and radio. Turkey also creates “pattern of life” maps using its drone fleet, primarily Bayraktar TB2s and ANKAs, which frequently patrol this tri-border area. Rather than checking a truck at the bridge, a drone can simply follow a suspicious vehicle after it crosses into Syria. If a truck crosses Smelka and drives to a civilian market, it is ignored. If it crosses and drives directly to a known SDF military tunnel or ammunition depot, Turkey logs it as a military supply run. While high-risk smuggling routes that the SDF or PKK use for cross-border movement may exist, none pass through Smelka or the known routes, which are heavily monitored. Turkey has turned this crossing into one of the most surveilled border points in the Middle East. More details:

As the SDF-Damascus clashes unfolded, the Smelka border crossing between Iraq’s Kurdistan Region and the remaining SDF-controlled strip in northeast Syria saw its strategic importance come to the forefront: What remains little known is how Turkey has transformed Smelka into one of the most heavily surveilled border crossings in the Middle East. Turkey monitors and tracks this route through two key methods. First, no truck can cross Smelka without prior coordination with either the Barzani Charity Foundation or the KRG’s Joint Crisis Coordination Centre (JCC) which both have worked and coordinate with the Turkish authorities. Then there is the second layer, which is more decisive: Turkey’s surveillance advantage at this specific location. Smelka is not deep inside Syrian territory. It sits just over a kilometer from the Turkish border. The crossing area on the Iraq-Syria side is relatively flat, but the Turkish side overlooking it rises to higher ground, creating natural sightlines and making long-range observation easier than at many other crossings. At the tri-border area, the Turkish side includes facilities and elevated points that function, in effect, as persistent monitoring positions. From these elevated positions, Turkey uses advanced electro-optical systems such as Aselsan’s DragonEye, a system specifically designed for border surveillance that can read every truck’s licence plate, identify the driver’s face, and see exactly what the cargo looks like from the outside, even at night. These systems use thermal imaging, allowing them to observe traffic just as clearly in pitch-black darkness. Over a thousand DragonEye units have been delivered to Turkish border forces and security posts for precisely this purpose. Turkey’s thermal profiling tools add another layer. They use thermal imagers to examine truck engines and cargo areas. From a distance, they can tell if a truck is a refrigerated unit but the cooling system is off, yet the driver is acting secretively: a red flag. If a truck is a canvas-covered flatbed, thermal cameras can easily detect the heat signatures of people hiding inside the cargo area. Turkey also operates sophisticated signals intelligence arrays in this border triangle, capabilities that have been documented providing real-time SIGINT and electronic intelligence to Turkish joint command centres during cross-border operations. They do not just watch the truck; they listen to the driver’s mobile phone and radio. Turkey also creates “pattern of life” maps using its drone fleet, primarily Bayraktar TB2s and ANKAs, which frequently patrol this tri-border area. Rather than checking a truck at the bridge, a drone can simply follow a suspicious vehicle after it crosses into Syria. If a truck crosses Smelka and drives to a civilian market, it is ignored. If it crosses and drives directly to a known SDF military tunnel or ammunition depot, Turkey logs it as a military supply run. While high-risk smuggling routes that the SDF or PKK use for cross-border movement may exist, none pass through Smelka or the known routes, which are heavily monitored. Turkey has turned this crossing into one of the most surveilled border points in the Middle East. More details:

The National Context

12,427 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce

Miami-based startup Chip Motors has unveiled its new all-electric "life utility vehicle." • Starting price: $15,000 ($18k for 6-seater) • Range: Up to 100 miles • Top speed: 25 mph • LFP battery pack • Native NACS charging port. Charges in a few hours • Optional hood with integrated TV and speakers • Four-and six-seat versions • Multiple cameras and radar to monitor traffic conditions • You can use a hose to clean out the interior • Portrait center screen • Can charge on a standard 110v wall outlet, though a 240-volt socket will repower it less than half the time. • Customizable: Pick your color, seats, roof, doors, and add-ons in the configurator. • Comes with Chip Go, which is a remote-driving service where a real human driver takes the wheel remotely to handle things like parking, pickups, errands, etc. They aim to achieve level 4 autonomy so it will drive itself in the future. • $250 refundable order fee • Deliveries start in 2027 Configurator:

Miami-based startup Chip Motors has unveiled its new all-electric "life utility vehicle." • Starting price: $15,000 ($18k for 6-seater) • Range: Up to 100 miles • Top speed: 25 mph • LFP battery pack • Native NACS charging port. Charges in a few hours • Optional hood with integrated TV and speakers • Four-and six-seat versions • Multiple cameras and radar to monitor traffic conditions • You can use a hose to clean out the interior • Portrait center screen • Can charge on a standard 110v wall outlet, though a 240-volt socket will repower it less than half the time. • Customizable: Pick your color, seats, roof, doors, and add-ons in the configurator. • Comes with Chip Go, which is a remote-driving service where a real human driver takes the wheel remotely to handle things like parking, pickups, errands, etc. They aim to achieve level 4 autonomy so it will drive itself in the future. • $250 refundable order fee • Deliveries start in 2027 Configurator:

Sawyer Merritt

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Key statements by chief designer of Fire Point company Denys Shtilerman Denys Shtilierman on the Ukrainian FP-7 and FP-9 ballistic missiles: ▪️ The FP-7 ballistic missile will soon be tested against targets in Russia. ▪️ A clone of the S-300 missile has been developed for existing launchers. After integration with radar systems - a complex process - it could form the basis of an anti-ballistic shield under the Freya project. ▪️ The missiles are cheaper than the original S-300 due to simplification and the use of new manufacturing technologies. ▪️ The missile can also be used as a cheaper analogue of ATACMS. This is how the FP-7 missile with a range of up to 300 km, depending on the warhead, was developed. ▪️ The FP-7 warhead is expected to be larger than that of ATACMS, while the missile itself will cost 2.5 times less. ▪️ The developers say they are ready to produce as many FP-7 missiles as ordered. Unlike Flamingo, which currently faces engine production issues, FP-7 has no manufacturing bottlenecks. ▪️ Combat use of the FP-7 is expected to begin before summer. ▪️ The longer-range FP-9 ballistic missile is also intended, among other things, for strikes on Moscow - according to the developers, attacks on provincial targets do not impress Russia’s top leadership. ▪️ Tests of the FP-9 are expected to begin in early summer. The engine is currently being finalized. The missile’s range is up to 800 km. ▪️ FP-9 will be difficult to intercept: the speed of the Iskander-M is about 800 m/s, while FP-9 is expected to reach 1200 m/s. ▪️ The goal is for 25% of the missiles to penetrate Moscow’s air defenses and hit their targets. Cruise missiles and drones cannot reach targets in Moscow because they are intercepted. ▪️ Our luck is that in Russia the cost of missile production is inflated several times over because of theft.

Key statements by chief designer of Fire Point company Denys Shtilerman Denys Shtilierman on the Ukrainian FP-7 and FP-9 ballistic missiles: ▪️ The FP-7 ballistic missile will soon be tested against targets in Russia. ▪️ A clone of the S-300 missile has been developed for existing launchers. After integration with radar systems - a complex process - it could form the basis of an anti-ballistic shield under the Freya project. ▪️ The missiles are cheaper than the original S-300 due to simplification and the use of new manufacturing technologies. ▪️ The missile can also be used as a cheaper analogue of ATACMS. This is how the FP-7 missile with a range of up to 300 km, depending on the warhead, was developed. ▪️ The FP-7 warhead is expected to be larger than that of ATACMS, while the missile itself will cost 2.5 times less. ▪️ The developers say they are ready to produce as many FP-7 missiles as ordered. Unlike Flamingo, which currently faces engine production issues, FP-7 has no manufacturing bottlenecks. ▪️ Combat use of the FP-7 is expected to begin before summer. ▪️ The longer-range FP-9 ballistic missile is also intended, among other things, for strikes on Moscow - according to the developers, attacks on provincial targets do not impress Russia’s top leadership. ▪️ Tests of the FP-9 are expected to begin in early summer. The engine is currently being finalized. The missile’s range is up to 800 km. ▪️ FP-9 will be difficult to intercept: the speed of the Iskander-M is about 800 m/s, while FP-9 is expected to reach 1200 m/s. ▪️ The goal is for 25% of the missiles to penetrate Moscow’s air defenses and hit their targets. Cruise missiles and drones cannot reach targets in Moscow because they are intercepted. ▪️ Our luck is that in Russia the cost of missile production is inflated several times over because of theft.

Anton Gerashchenko

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SITUATION EXPLAINED: Why is China building a sovereign AI stack to compete with Nvidia? We asked Glinert 🇺🇸 🏭 and Mitchell Nahmias, co-founders of Sphere Semi. "What I see as the only real viable crack in Nvidia's armor is what's coming out of China, which is ironic given Jensen's famously kind of weird stance on China." "If you think about the things that Nvidia can do, the way that neural nets are trained into CUDA, the way they've built the data center rack into Nvidia, the way they've built memory infrastructure into Nvidia. The only thing that is incredible about China is they've built this sovereign stack for all of these things." "They are now in many ways seemingly able to actually have independent training capabilities for their own models that are entirely outside of Nvidia." "There is no threat to him but Xi Jinping. That he should take serious."

SITUATION EXPLAINED: Why is China building a sovereign AI stack to compete with Nvidia? We asked Glinert 🇺🇸 🏭 and Mitchell Nahmias, co-founders of Sphere Semi. "What I see as the only real viable crack in Nvidia's armor is what's coming out of China, which is ironic given Jensen's famously kind of weird stance on China." "If you think about the things that Nvidia can do, the way that neural nets are trained into CUDA, the way they've built the data center rack into Nvidia, the way they've built memory infrastructure into Nvidia. The only thing that is incredible about China is they've built this sovereign stack for all of these things." "They are now in many ways seemingly able to actually have independent training capabilities for their own models that are entirely outside of Nvidia." "There is no threat to him but Xi Jinping. That he should take serious."

MTS

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