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Engineers evaluate reliability of pressure relief valves for liquid natural gas tanks in train derailment scenarios
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has helped determine the viability of pressure relief valves for liquid natural gas tanks in the event of a train derailment for the Federal Rail Administration (FRA). The report from the FRA shows that a study conducted by SwRI demonstrates that the pressure relief valves work... Read more
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Q&A: Economist says EVs can help drive US to carbon-neutral power grid
Vehicle standards recently announced by the Environmental Protection Agency establish stringent new goals for manufacturers to slash greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of pollution, pushing the industry to accelerate a transition to electric vehicles.... Read more
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US seeks information from Tesla on how it developed and verified whether Autopilot recall worked
Federal highway safety investigators want Tesla to tell them how and why it developed the fix in a recall of more than 2 million vehicles equipped with the company's Autopilot partially automated driving system.... Read more
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Since Tesla recalled its vehicles in 2023, there have been 20 accidents and investigators are asking why
Tesla is yet again undergoing scrutiny from federal regulators in the United States. The issue at hand now is whether the automotive company did enough in response to the 2023 recalls by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Transport Canada. The recalls were issued after several collisions... Read more
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Digital human model aids design of motorcycles, based on riding posture
Motorcycles are designed to accommodate the average-sized rider, leaving taller and shorter riders vulnerable to discomfort.... Read more
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Hundreds of cities have achieved zero road deaths in a year—here's how they did it
It's National Road Safety Week and it comes on the back of a year in which 1,286 people died on Australian roads. The rising road toll—up 8.2% for the year to March—included 62 children. Tragically, road deaths remain the number one killer of children in Australia.... Read more
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Europe's auto suppliers reach the end of the road
Emrullah Karaca has made brakes for the past 20 years, but he is now learning to assemble heat pumps instead, as the Continental factory where he works in northern Germany is slated to close.... Read more
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Electric vehicles will start to cut emissions and improve air quality in our cities—but only once they're common
Electric vehicles are often seen as the panacea to cutting emissions—and air pollution—from transport.... Read more
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Tesla to cut hundreds more jobs in Musk cost push: Report
Tesla plans hundreds of additional job cuts beyond a recent company-wide layoff as it cracks down on costs in a tough electric vehicle market, according to a US media report.... Read more
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Electric cars pile up at European ports as Chinese firms struggle to find buyers
China's automotive industry has revolutionized over the past decade, from producing basic western clones to making cars that equal the world's best. As the manufacturing powerhouse of the world, China is also producing them in huge volumes.... Read more
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Mathematical formulation of hazardous scenarios for automated driving systems
A research group including Professor Hasuo Ichiro of the Information Systems Architecture Science Research Division of the National Institute of Informatics, Dr. Waga Masaki, Assistant Professor of the Department of Informatics in the Graduate School of Informatics of Kyoto University and others has mathematically formulated the hazardous scenarios specified in... Read more
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Voice at the wheel: Study introduces an encoder-decoder framework for AI systems
Recently, the team led by Professor Xu Chengzhong and Assistant Professor Li Zhenning from the University of Macau's State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City unveiled the Context-Aware Visual Grounding Model (CAVG).... Read more
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Fueling the future: Researchers evaluate emissions in the aviation industry
A research group led Prof. Fei Wei and Chenxi Zhang in Tsinghua University has published a perspective paper that evaluates the progression from deep-rooted fossil-fuel-dependent technologies to innovative strategies aimed at carbon neutrality, with a specific focus on the formulation of sustainable aviation fuel from CO2.... Read more
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Electric vehicle drivers can estimate their personalized fuel savings with new Argonne tool
A new tool launched by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory enables drivers to estimate, at the ZIP code level, how much they save on fuel costs by driving a plug-in electric vehicle (either a plug-in hybrid [PHEV] or a battery electric vehicle [BEV]).... Read more
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NASA uses small engine to enhance sustainable jet research
Located inside a high-tech NASA laboratory in Cleveland is something you could almost miss at first glance: a small-scale, fully operational jet engine to test new technology that could make aviation more sustainable.... Read more