When you smell an orange, the scent is most likely combined with several others: car exhaust, garbage, flowers, soap. Those smells bind simultaneously to the hundreds of receptors in your brain’s olfactory bulb, obscuring one another, yet you can still recognize the smell of an orange, even when it’s blended with a totally different pattern…
Commercial fast-charging stations subject electric car batteries to high temperatures and high resistance that can cause them to crack, leak, and lose their storage capacity, write engineers at the University of California, Riverside in a new study published in Energy Storage. To remedy this, the researchers have developed a method for charging at lower temperatures…
Luxembourg recently became the first country in the world to make all public transport free. As of March 1 2020, all buses, trains and trams throughout the country can be boarded without paying a fare—the largest area to institute free public transport for both residents and tourists so far. Read More Views: 0
Have you taken an Uber ride and disagreed with the “fastest” route that the GPS app suggested because you—or the driver—know a “better” way? Read More Views: 0
Lithium-ion batteries are used around the world, and though over the last few years they have had some competition, such as sodium and magnesium, they continue to be indispensable due to their high density and capacity. The issue is this: this metal has major availability and concentration problems. Almost 85% of its reserves are located…
Google’s former autonomous vehicle project is becoming a more autonomous business by bringing it in its first investors besides its corporate parent. Read More Views: 0
Sandia National Laboratories manager Joel Wirth, a mechanical engineer by training, studied a problem with his car. The weight was too far back, making the car fishtail whenever he drove it faster than 200 mph. Read More Views: 0
You’d thinking flying in a plane would be more dangerous than driving a car. In reality it’s much safer, partly because the aviation industry is heavily regulated. Read More Views: 1
An important chapter in Volkswagen’s years-long “dieselgate” emissions cheating saga appeared headed for a close Friday, as the German car giant agreed a compensation deal with domestic consumer groups. Read More Views: 1
China’s car market could shrink up to seven percent year-on-year in 2020 as the effects of the novel coronavirus outbreak bite, Germany’s VDA manufacturers’ association said Thursday. Read More Views: 0