US BEV and PHEV are 9% of Total New Cars in 2023

Nearly 136,000 light-duty EVs were sold in September 2023 – up 67 percent from last September. After months of light-duty EV sales hovering around 10 percent, September brought us an EV market share of 11 percent for new sales. The US surpassed one million EVs sold in 2023. U.S. consumers purchasing new light-duty cars or …

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Summary of Good LK99 Room Temperature Superconductor Developments

LK99 is the material that South Korean researchers claimed was a room temperature superconductor. The patents and the original papers described superconducting low level electrical resistance for thin film versions of LK99. There were a lot of negative experiments from researchers who made bulk samples of LK99. The negative papers never made and never wrote …

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War Over India Trade and Trade Routes

India is an emerging economic superpower and there is increasing trade between India and Europe, the US and India and trade with China. The Biden administration in September announced the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor. This would have moved a lot of trade between Europe to India through Israel and Saudi Arabia. One-third of world trade …

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Tesla Increased Autopilot Steering Wheel Nag to Comply With NHTSA

Dr Know it all, John Gibb, explains the increased steering wheel nag on older versions of Tesla Autopilot software. Tesla provided an over the air software update to comply ensure drivers are always paying attention when Autopilot or FSD is engaged. There is also more software restrictions around when Autopilot is allowed to be engaged. …

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FCC Commissioners Say Federal Agencies Greenlit to Go After Elon Musk After Twitter Purchase

The five-member FCC, led by Democrat-appointed chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, rejected SpaceX Starlink for a rural broadband program. The FCC claimed Starlink failed to demonstrate that it could deliver the promised service (100 megabits download and 20 megabit upload). Republican FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr dissented with the decision and said that President Biden gave federal agencies …

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China, Japan, US Race to Perfect and Deploy Railguns

China’s Navy researchers have claimed to have solved issues to make military relevant and useful railguns. China has mounted a single test railgun on a ship since about 2018-2019. China has talked about 32 megajoule power range tests and plans and future 100 megajoule systems. The US is now working with Japan to develop and …

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Do Top US Cities for Homelessness Have Democrat Mayors ?

A nextbigfuture reader had a comment about which US cities had the most homelessness and whether the mayor is democrat or republican. I have used US Housing and Urban Development statistics and the wikipedia entries for each city for their mayor and party affiliation. Texas’ homeless population shrunk by nearly a third over the past …

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First Flights of the B-21 Stealth Bomber Caught on Camera

The new B-21 Stealth bomber has been photographed having its first test flights. The B-21 will have half of the payload of a B-2 bomber but it will have more range and will be much harder to detect. #BREAKINGB-21 RAIDER FIRST FLIGHT #RAIDER33 #B21Raider 11-10-23 pic.twitter.com/G8dr87bAa4 — Matt Hartman (@ShorealoneFilms) November 10, 2023 B-21 RAIDER …

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Leidos Developing Hypersonic Scramjet Mayhem Spy Drone by 2027

In December, 2022, Leidos ($13.7B annual revenue fortune 500 company) was awarded a $334 million contract to assist the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in developing an air-breathing hypersonic system. The Expendable Hypersonic Multi-mission ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) and Strike program, better known as Mayhem, will span a 51-month period of performance. The …

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