Time is money. Especially for rideshare drivers with companies like Uber and Lyft. New research in the INFORMS journal Operations Research looks at a new model for rideshare companies focusing on maximizing the availability ...
Sep 5, 2019
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Automotive
What good is a driverless car if riding in it nauseates you?
Aug 21, 2019
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Automotive
Fiat Chrysler proposed on Monday to merge with France's Renault to create the world's third-biggest automaker, worth $40 billion, and combine forces in the race to make electric and autonomous vehicles.
May 27, 2019
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Engineering
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a new truck front concept to reduce fatal crashes in car-truck collisions significantly.
Mar 13, 2024
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Automotive
Sales of passenger cars rose 10.2% in October over a year earlier, an industry association said Wednesday, as makers ramped up promotions and customers opted for electric and hybrid vehicles.
Nov 8, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
The use of e-scooters has increased significantly in recent years, but so has the number of accidents involving this relatively new form of transport. At the same time, knowledge about injury mechanisms in this area was still ...
Oct 18, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Australia can almost fully decarbonize its light-duty vehicle (LDV) fleet by 2050 by implementing fuel efficiency or carbon dioxide (CO2) emission standards like those already adopted in leading vehicle markets including ...
Dec 13, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
A far-reaching new study of the life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from passenger cars, including SUVs, draws sharp and meticulous distinctions between the climate impacts of battery and fuel cell electric vehicles ...
Jul 21, 2021
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Automotive
As America slowly reopens and people resume hitting the open road, travelers through the Buckeye State can rest assured median cable barriers are doing their job. A University of Dayton Transportation Engineering Lab study ...
Jun 16, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Lithium-sulphur batteries, which are lighter and cheaper than today's models, may be the next generation of power cells that we use in electric cars or mobile phones—if scientists can get them to last for longer.
Jun 5, 2020
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