Electrify. Automate. Accelerate.
Six refined materials become four kinds of parts, and those parts become every electric vehicle, robot, charger and grid battery. ElectronsX follows the whole chain, from the lithium refinery to the fleet depot, and the chokepoints the machines share along the way.
Hubs
Vehicles and robots are the machines. Autonomy drives them, fleets run them, charging and energy feed them, industry builds with them, and the supply chain makes them. Systems covers the platforms and software inside all of them.
Every electric machine that moves: cars, trucks, buses, off-highway equipment, aircraft and ships, each read by battery, platform and software stack instead of horsepower and trim.
Humanoids, quadrupeds, industrial arms, sidewalk robots and drones, and the actuators they run on.
Sensors, compute and the software stack that let a machine drive, fly or walk without an operator.
Machines run as fleets: commercial, municipal, autonomous and robotic, and the software that dispatches them.
Public networks, connectors and standards, megawatt charging for trucks, and the fleet energy depot.
Generation, transmission, battery storage and microgrids: where the electrons come from.
Process heat, steel, cement, chemicals and hydrogen moving from combustion to electricity, and the ports and airports electrifying around them.
Platforms, zonal architecture, software-defined machines and the embedded AI that ties them together.
From the mine and the refinery to the cell, motor, inverter and final assembly, with the chokepoints the machines share and where each one is processed.
One cell, every machine
LFP and NMC cells from the same cathode plants and gigafactories power every machine below, from a 0.08 kWh drone to a 4.3 MWh ferry. Grid battery plants take the same cells past 3 GWh.
Frameworks
An EV, a humanoid and a grid battery draw on the same lithium refineries, magnet plants and control chips. These pages read the whole site through that overlap.
Nine inputs that EVs, robots, grid batteries, chargers and data centers all compete for.
ConstraintsThe 14 inputs that set the pace of the buildout, ranked, plus five that only robots hit.
Building blocksSiC inverters, LFP, zonal architecture and the other base technologies, with a status for each.
ChipsThe $2 mature-node chips that stopped car plants in 2021, mapped by machine.
The Industrial Triad
A fab makes the power chips and sensors a gigafactory builds into machines. The data center trains the models those machines run, on chips from the same fabs. ElectronsX covers the gigafactory corner of the loop and everything it ships; its two sister sites cover the other corners.
Across the network
The chips inside each machine, the compute that trains it, the Texas plants that build it, and the off-planet industry it grows into each have a sister site.
Power semiconductors, sensors and AI chips, and the fabs that make them.
Where it is trainedAI data centers, the power they draw and the supply chain behind them.
Where it is builtGiga Texas, Samsung Taylor and the Texas buildout around them.
Beyond EarthThe same machines and supply chains, extended off-planet.
The book
Daniel M. Sisson
The AI-Industrial Revolution From Austin to Alpha Centauri. The book follows the Industrial Triad from Texas gigafactories and fabs to compute in orbit. ElectronsX keeps the electrification layer behind it current: the machines, the fleets, the energy and the supply chains.