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SpaceX schedules first West Coast Starlink launch after a quiet July

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Drone ship Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY) wrapped up an 8000 kilometer (~5000 mi) journey from its Florida home to California’s Port of Long Beach, while brand new drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas (ASOG) arrived at Port Canaveral to take OCISLY’s place after months of assembly.

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Video Friday: DALL-E 2

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ICRA 2022 : 23–27 May 2022, Philadelphia IEEE ARSO 2022 : 28–30 May 2022, Long Beach ERF 2022 : 28–30 June 2022, Rotterdam, the Netherlands RoboCup 2022 : 11–17 July 2022, Bangkok, Thailand IEEE CASE 2022 : 20–24 August 2022, Mexico City, Mexico CLAWAR 2022 : 12–14 September 2022, Açores, Portugal. It's a real skill that works!

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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million miles, so the engineering that goes into making those vehicles be able to perform and last that long has to apply to the battery pack as well. When we were first starting off at Daimler Truck, trying to find a battery cell supplier that would build us a pack that was good in the truck was difficult. Rustam Kocher: It is.

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Can Freight Train Cars Go Electric—and Self-Driving?

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With some halfway decent sensors to detect obstacles on the track, reliable motors and batteries that last long enough (current range is 800km with a sub-hour recharge time), and the software infrastructure required to sort it all out, I don’t see any major obstacles to building these things and putting them on some tracks.

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The Big Picture

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builds its rechargeable transit and charter buses. But that’s exactly the case being made by SpinLaunch, a startup based in Long Beach, Calif., Enjoy the latest images, and if you have suggestions, leave a comment below. EV Bus Nursery. Pictured is the factory where electric-vehicle maker BYD, based in Santa Dominguez, Calif.,

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