Researchers have resolved a long-standing challenge in high-Ni cathode materials, a key component of next-generation electric vehicle (EV) batteries. The team successfully reidentified the location of residual Li compounds, which have long been considered a chronic issue in high-Ni cathodes, and proposed a new material design strategy to significantly minimize...
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The adage "practice makes perfect" may not always ring true, but research from the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute provides new evidence that practice does make teen driving safer....
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Researchers at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering have designed a liquid hydrogen storage and delivery system that could help make zero-emission aviation a reality. Their work outlines a scalable, integrated system that addresses several engineering challenges at once by enabling hydrogen to be used as a clean fuel and also...
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Batteries are nearing their limits in terms of how much power they can store for a given weight. That's a serious obstacle for energy innovation and the search for new ways to power airplanes, trains, and ships. Now, researchers at MIT and elsewhere have come up with a solution that...
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When it comes to public attitudes toward using self-driving cars, understanding how the vehicles work is important—but so are less obvious characteristics like feelings of excitement or pleasure and a belief in technology's social benefits....
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Sales of cars made by Elon Musk's Tesla slumped by more than half in April as Chinese electric carmakers saw their share surge, the continent's manufacturing association said Tuesday....
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In 2024, 1,040 accidents were recorded on Spanish roads, in addition to minor collisions and other driving problems. The causes of these accidents include speeding, adverse weather conditions and substance abuse, but also distraction and stressful situations that can be mitigated by improving infrastructure design, technologies to assist drivers and...
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Money-losing Japanese automaker Nissan is banking on its latest "e-Power" technology for a turnaround....
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Using a newly developed verification framework, researchers have uncovered safety limitations in open-source self-driving systems during high-speed movements and sudden cut-ins, raising concerns for real-world deployments....
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US senators on Thursday blocked California's landmark mandate phasing out gas-powered cars, dealing a blow to the state's move toward electric vehicles in a pointed rebuke of Democratic climate change policies....
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On Dec. 21, 2022, just as peak holiday season travel was getting underway, Southwest Airlines went through a cascading series of failures in their scheduling, initially triggered by severe winter weather in the Denver area. But the problems spread through their network, and over the course of the next 10...
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Anyone who uses city roads will know e-bikes have become increasingly popular in Aotearoa New Zealand. But we also know rising e-bike sales have been predominantly driven by financially well-off households....
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In the year 2000, almost 70% of all new cars sold in Australia were small passenger vehicles—mainly sedans and hatchbacks. But over 25 years, their share has dropped dramatically to just 17%, as a car "size race" took hold....
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Few weekends send more people on long car journeys than Memorial Day Weekend, with AAA estimating as many as 39 million people hitting the road this year. But unfortunately, motion sickness could make those trips uncomfortable and unpleasant for many people....
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