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Northrop exit from UK satellite bid recasts big-ticket Skynet 6 race

November 29, 2023
LONDON — Defense contractors have been given until March next year to submit bids to provide the U.K. military with a new generation of wideband communication satellites as part of the Ministry of Defence’s Skynet 6 program. Procurement officials for Skynet 6 released an invitation earlier this month to Airbus Defence and Space, Lockheed Martin and Thales Alenia Space with instructions to…
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Here's how Uber is getting rid of its EV drivers' range anxiety

November 29, 2023
Uber has partnered with mobility platform developer Smartcar to develop Battery-Aware Matching, which filters an EV driver’s trip requests based on state of charge. Range anxiety is real among Uber EV drivers. Uber surveyed 16,000 of its EV and non-EV drivers in North America and Europe in 2022, and reported that “the majority of survey participants worry that not enough EV charging exists to…
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Tesla Cybertruck has 290 miles (466 km) of range in review unit

November 29, 2023
Tesla Cybertruck has been spotted with about 290 miles (466 km) of range in a review unit ahead of the delivery event tomorrow. The automaker famously doesn’t work with media in the US since disbanding its PR department back in 2020. Today, there’s only a handful of publications and content creators that Tesla sometimes provides review units to in North America – namely Motor Trend, Jay…
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Leaks reveal next Harley-Davidson electric motorcycle could go cruiser direction

November 29, 2023
Harley-Davidson’s electric motorcycle brand LiveWire is still up to its riding leathers in its second electric motorcycle model, the LiveWire S2 Del Mar. But even as the company is pushing out deliveries of that bike, new leaked details are already revealing design information about the company’s next model. And it may just be the more comfortable cruiser that so many have been waiting for. I…
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