Nissan’s luxury brand laid out a bold comeback plan for its frustrated dealers to increase sales to 100,000 vehicles by mid-decade — more than twice the 46,619 the company sold in 2022.
At stake is the pace with which electric vehicles could displace internal combustion engines — a key goal of the green energy transition.
Despite a weather scare, SpaceX successfully launched another 56 Starlink internet satellites from Cape Canaveral Space For Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 on Friday.
The launch looked to be in danger after a line of storms strafed Central Florida, bringing severe weather into Brevard County.
SpaceX scheduled its initial launch attempt at 9:56 a.m. before moving to a successful second target of 11:35 a.m. after the storms cleared. It was the company’s 30th mission of 2023 from the Space Coast.
The first-stage booster, flying for the ninth time, landed on the company’s droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas downrange in the Atlantic.
Elon Musk’s company had already flown 29 of the 31 launches from the Space Coast with just the early Thursday launch of ULA’s Delta IV Heavy for the National Reconnaissance Office and a March liftoff of Relativity Space’s 3D-printed Terran 1 as the only other rocket action from Florida.
In addition, SpaceX has flown 13 times from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as well as the test launch attempt of its in-development Starship and Super Heavy from its Boca Chica, Texas, launch facility Starbase.
While commodity, freight and energy prices have mostly come back down to earth since post-pandemic spikes, elevated labor costs and worker shortages remain a pain point for the supply chain.
Audi has “huge opportunities” with an upcoming product fireworks starting in 2024, VW CEO Oliver Blume said.