Scientists put forth a smarter way to protect a smarter grid
There's a down side to "smart" devices: They can be hacked.
Mar 4, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Improving EV batteries with real-world driving data
Most electric vehicles are equipped with an electronic brain that manages day-to-day battery performance and safety. This battery management system, or BMS, includes software that uses algorithms to monitor the overall health ...
Aug 21, 2023
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Automotive
New graph-based statistical method detects threats to vehicular communications networks
Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have worked to create methods for improving the safety of technologically complex vehicles. Now that the majority of new cars operate using sophisticated ...
Nov 24, 2020
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Car Capital scores $150 million in backing for its instant car loan approval technology
A large New York private equity firm is providing a $150 million credit line over the next three years to a Grapevine, Texas startup that makes it easier for auto dealers to make instant vehicle loans, regardless of credit ...
Jan 13, 2022
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Think taxing electric vehicle use is a backward step? Here's why it's an important policy advance
The South Australian and Victorian governments have announced, and New South Wales is considering, road user charges on electric vehicles. This policy has drawn scorn from environmental advocates and motor vehicle lobbyists ...
Nov 26, 2020
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Can bats help us design a better driverless car?
Fruit bats aren't the first words that comes to mind when you think of driverless cars. But in their nightly forays for fruit and nectar, they routinely solve many of the engineering challenges that have stalled efforts ...
Oct 6, 2021
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Electric vehicle batteries: The older they get, the safer they are
Studies at TU Graz show that the older an traction battery of electric vehicles (EV) is, the lower the danger it poses. Now the researchers and industry partners want to define parameters for the subsequent use of discarded ...
May 3, 2021
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Will electric cars continue to be mainly for affluent buyers?
A column from Charles Lane of The Washington Post, which ran in print in The San Diego Union-Tribune on Jan.2, argued that excitement and belief in electric vehicles is overblown.
Jan 16, 2020
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Flying cars could soon be ready for take off
While the idea of hovering motor vehicles might once have been considered farfetched, it's certainly not the case today.
Sep 22, 2021
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Electric car leader Tesla left out of White House event
Tesla, the global leader in electric cars, was excluded from the White House event Thursday where US President Joe Biden unveiled a big push for zero-emissions vehicles.
Aug 5, 2021
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An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally for the transport of people rather than goods. However, the term automobile is far from precise, because there are many types of vehicles that do similar tasks.
As of 2002, there were 590 million passenger cars worldwide (roughly one car per eleven people). Around the world, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks on the road in 2007; they burn over 260 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel yearly. The numbers are increasing rapidly, especially in China and India.
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