https://techxplore.com/automotive-news/ en-us Tech Xplore covers the latest in car tech Designing reliable aircraft can be both challenging and time-consuming, as it often entails several steps and analyses. Deep learning models could potentially help to speed up aircraft design and deployment, helping developers to identify the most promising solutions or potential flaws with a specific aircraft. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-large-dataset-machine-aerial-vehicle.html Automotive Mon, 10 Jul 2023 12:24:05 EDT news608210640 Inspired by kitesurfing, French firms want to deploy the same wind technology to propel everything from yachts to cargo ships in order to cut the shipping industry's massive carbon footprint. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-startup-kitesurf-shipping-pollution.html Energy & Green Tech Sun, 09 Jul 2023 07:44:20 EDT news608107452 Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed new software to aid in the development, evaluation and demonstration of safer autonomous, or driverless, vehicles. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-real-driverless-cars-virtual-environment.html Automotive Thu, 06 Jul 2023 14:26:33 EDT news607872382 Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and ETH Zurich have performed calculations to work out how air traffic could become climate-neutral by 2050. They conclude that simply replacing fossil aviation fuel with sustainable synthetic fuels will not be enough. Air traffic would also have to be reduced. The researchers are publishing their results today in the journal Nature Communications. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-climate-neutral-air.html Energy & Green Tech Thu, 06 Jul 2023 11:11:05 EDT news607860661 An ingredient in many toothpastes is sodium fluoride, a compound of fluorine. It is added to protect teeth against decay. But compounds containing fluorine have other practical uses that might surprise you. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a fluoride electrolyte that could protect a next generation battery against performance decline. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-ingredient-toothpaste-electric-cars.html Energy & Green Tech Wed, 28 Jun 2023 12:45:03 EDT news607175101 With the federal government incentivizing the expansion of domestic electric-vehicle battery manufacturing, a new Cornell University study examines the long-term energy and sustainability prospects of U.S. production, and highlights policy approaches for building a more resilient battery supply chain. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-unveils-policy-insights-reshoring-ev.html Business Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:50:03 EDT news605980201 The U.S. electric grid faces simultaneous, evolving pressures. Demand for power from the grid is increasing as people adopt electric cars and building energy is transitioned from gas to electricity. At the same time, climate change is driving more extreme weather. Events like the 2020 heat wave that led to rolling blackouts in California are relatively infrequent, but they are happening more often—and utilities need to be ready for them. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-railways-key-player-backup-power.html Energy & Green Tech Mon, 12 Jun 2023 12:25:04 EDT news605791502 Both Uber and Lyft ride-hailing services have pledged to fully electrify their vehicle fleets by 2030 in the United States. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-full-electrification-uber-lyft-vehicles.html Energy & Green Tech Wed, 07 Jun 2023 13:52:09 EDT news605364723 There's a song anyone who lives near an airport or directly under the flight path of incoming and departing jets daily wishes they could play: Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence." https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-treatment-slash-jet-noise.html Engineering Mon, 05 Jun 2023 10:55:55 EDT news605181348 Transportation accounts for roughly one-third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and adoption of electric vehicles is seen by many experts in government and the private sector as a vital tool in efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Roughly a decade ago, EVs accounted for a tiny fraction of overall car sales. As of March 2023, they make up 7% of new sales https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-advances-technology-popularity-electric-vehicles.html Business Tue, 30 May 2023 16:05:03 EDT news604681501 Should I go or give way? It is one of the most basic questions in traffic, whether merging in on a motorway or at the door of the metro. The decision is one that humans typically make quickly and intuitively, because doing so relies on social interactions trained from the time we begin to walk. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-self-driving-cars-shown-lack-social.html Automotive Tue, 30 May 2023 15:08:04 EDT news604678081 Imagine a world where science fiction meets reality, where cutting-edge technology brings to life the awe-inspiring scenes from movies like Prometheus. This is the groundbreaking research led by Dr. Fu Zhang, Assistant Professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, the University of Hong Kong (HKU), who has developed a Powered-flying Ultra-underactuated LiDAR-Sensing Aerial Robot (PULSAR) that is poised to redefine the world of unpiloted aerial vehicles (UAVs). https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-team-revolutionary-unpiloted-aerial-vehicle.html Robotics Tue, 30 May 2023 13:11:03 EDT news604671061 If you are standing on a corner waiting for a ride-share car, would you be willing to wait longer if you knew your driver was piloting an electric vehicle? What if it was powered by 100% green energy? How much longer would you be willing to wait? Would you pay more for the privilege if the app told you about the option? https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-decarbonization-sector-ev-ride-shares.html Engineering Thu, 25 May 2023 12:29:34 EDT news604236570 Modern cars and autonomous vehicles use millimeter wave (mmWave) radio frequencies to enable self-driving or assisted driving features that ensure the safety of passengers and pedestrians. This connectivity, however, can also expose them to potential cyberattacks. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-team-device-autonomous-car-safety.html Security Wed, 24 May 2023 13:48:57 EDT news604154935 When we think of getting on the road in our cars, our first thoughts may not be that fellow drivers are particularly safe or careful—but human drivers are more reliable than one may expect. For each fatal car crash in the United States, motor vehicles log a whopping hundred million miles on the road. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-exploring-methods-safety-reliability-autonomous.html Robotics Wed, 24 May 2023 11:54:04 EDT news604148041 Safety issues of self-driving cars have emerged due to frequent traffic accidents. A self-healing lens material that can prevent car accidents that occur due to signal distortion by healing scratches on the sensor surface of the self-driving car has been developed. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-self-healing-lens-material-traffic-accidents.html Engineering Mon, 22 May 2023 09:16:49 EDT news603965802 Many owners of electric vehicles worry about how effective their battery will be in very cold weather. Now a new battery chemistry may have solved that problem. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-electric-vehicle-battery-seasons.html Energy & Green Tech Wed, 17 May 2023 15:20:27 EDT news603555624 A research team led by Professor Yong-Tae Kim (Department of Material Science and Engineering and Graduate Institute of Ferrous and Energy Materials Technology) and Ph.D. candidate Sang-Hoon You (Department of Material Science and Engineering) at POSTECH has developed a selective catalyst that curbs corrosion in fuel cells used for hydrogen-powered automobiles. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-fuel-cell-lifespan-catalyst.html Energy & Green Tech Fri, 12 May 2023 11:28:01 EDT news603109679 Fast cars. Millions of us love them. The idea transcends national borders, race, religion, politics. We embraced them for more than a century, beginning in the early 1900s with the stately Stutz Bearcat and Mercer Raceabout (known as "the Steinway of the automobile world"), to the sexy Pontiac GTOs and Ford Mustangs of the 1960s, and through to the ultimate luxury creations of the Lamborghini and Ferrari families. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-robotic-cars.html Robotics Mon, 01 May 2023 16:25:17 EDT news602177110 The first statistically realistic roadway simulation has been developed by researchers at the University of Michigan. While it currently represents a particularly perilous roundabout, future work will expand it to include other driving situations for testing autonomous vehicle software. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-world-realistic-simulated-environment-based.html Automotive Mon, 01 May 2023 11:30:03 EDT news602159401 Scrap aluminum can now be collected and transformed directly into new vehicle parts using an innovative process being developed by the automotive industry, in particular for electric vehicles. Today, the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in collaboration with leading mobility technology company Magna, unveils a new manufacturing process that reduces more than 50% of the embodied energy and more than 90% of the carbon dioxide emissions by eliminating the need to mine and refine the same amount of raw aluminum ore. Lightweight aluminum can also help extend EV driving range. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-recycled-aluminum-energy-emissions-electric.html Engineering Tue, 18 Apr 2023 09:38:03 EDT news601029481 Electrical cables have been suspended over trams and trolley tracks for more than 140 years. They've electrified bullet trains in Japan and Amtrak railways that connect Washington D.C and Boston. Now the United States, Germany, and Sweden are testing the technology on highways, hoping to eliminate emissions from tractor-trailers. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-environmental-economic-benefits-overhead-cable.html Energy & Green Tech Fri, 14 Apr 2023 10:07:04 EDT news600685621 As automobile electrification speeds up, the world faces an overwhelming need for critical metals and minerals to make atmosphere-saving electric vehicles possible. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-critical-metal-cars-trucks-decarbonize.html Energy & Green Tech Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:01:03 EDT news600436861 The electric vehicle market has been experiencing explosive growth, with global sales surpassing $1 trillion in 2022 and Korea's domestic sales exceeding 108,000 units. Inevitably, demand is growing for high-capacity batteries that can extend EV driving range. Recently, a joint team of researchers from POSTECH and Sogang University developed a functional polymeric binder for stable, high-capacity anode material that could increase the current EV range at least 10-fold. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-layering-charged-polymers-battery-technology-boost.html Energy & Green Tech Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:23:36 EDT news599307814 The push toward truly autonomous vehicles has been hindered by the cost and time associated with safety testing, but a new system developed at the University of Michigan shows that artificial intelligence can reduce the testing miles required by 99.99%. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-simulated-terrible-drivers-av-factor.html Computer Sciences Wed, 22 Mar 2023 12:00:03 EDT news598689883 Transportation systems in urban settings are vulnerable to a variety of factors including weather, traffic congestion, and special events. Bottlenecks, in particular, can cause major problems and lead to cascading failure of the entire system. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-cascading-failures-urban-traffic-hidden.html Computer Sciences Tue, 21 Mar 2023 11:00:05 EDT news598606214 Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, can help humans to tackle a variety of real-world problems; for instance, assisting them during military operations and search and rescue missions, delivering packages or exploring environments that are difficult to access. Conventional UAV designs, however, can have some shortcomings that limit their use in particular settings. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-hybrid-unicycle-ground-fly.html Robotics Tue, 21 Mar 2023 09:30:01 EDT news598521363 National and global plans to combat climate change include increasing the electrification of vehicles and the percentage of electricity generated from renewable sources. But some projections show that these trends might require costly new power plants to meet peak loads in the evening when cars are plugged in after the workday. What's more, overproduction of power from solar farms during the daytime can waste valuable electricity-generation capacity. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-ev-station-placement-lessen-power.html Energy & Green Tech Wed, 15 Mar 2023 11:00:01 EDT news598087581 Electrification is seen as having an important role to play in the fossil-free aviation of tomorrow. But electric aviation is battling a trade-off dilemma: the more energy-efficient an electric aircraft is, the noisier it gets. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a propeller design optimization method that paves the way for quiet, efficient electric aviation. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-propeller-advance-paves-quiet-efficient.html Engineering Wed, 15 Mar 2023 10:02:03 EDT news598093321 In August 2022, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Signed by President Joe Biden, the legislation attempted to curb inflation, lower the deficit, and invest heavily into domestic clean energy. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-electric-vehicle-batteries.html Business Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:40:16 EST news597343211