Automotive

The hyperloop is ready for a breakthrough, and Zeleros is one of the concepts in the running. The Spanish start-up has created a unique technology thanks to their approach to their higher-pressure tubes. Credit: Zeleros hyperloop The hyperloop is what you get when you take a magnetic levitation train and...

In this Feb. 21, 2021 file photo, a Tesla electric vehicle emblem is affixed to a passenger vehicle in Boston. Consumer Reports said Thursday, April 22, it was able to easily trick a Tesla into driving in the car's Autopilot mode with no one at the wheel. Its test came...

Self-driving software will become a key differentiator for highly automated vehicles but the technology is not quite ready yet. Credit: Shutterstock The recent crash of a Tesla car in the United States, in which two people died, has reignited debate about the capabilities and safety of today's "self-driving" technologies. Tesla...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Jaguar Land Rover said Thursday it's suspending production at two U.K. factories, becoming the latest automaker to fall victim to a global shortage of microchips. "Like other automotive manufacturers, we are currently experiencing some COVID-19 supply chain disruption, including the global availability of semiconductors," the British...

French automaker Renault posted Thursday first quarter sales of 10 billion euros, slightly below the level recorded a year earlier as the coronavirus began to spread worldwide. Sales of utility vehicles and the low-cost Dacia brand accounted for a substantial share of the first-quarter figure, a group statement said.In the...

Tesla is facing a backlash in China Electric carmaker Tesla has hit a speed bump in China with questions being raised over safety and service just as local competitors gear up to challenge the US-based company in the huge Chinese market. Tesla's road in China had seemed paved with gold...

Chevron announced a strategic hydrogen technology alliance with Toyota, but said it will keep selling gasoline Chevron and Toyota announced Wednesday a first step towards a strategic alliance to commercialize hydrogen, which is seen as an environmentally-friendly transportation fuel option. The alliance, which is centered on the United States, is...

Credit: Steffen Thoma/Public Domain A predictability model built by an SMU research team can calculate the odds that certain variables—such as drunk driving or speeding 20 miles above the limit—will result in a severe car accident. For instance, the statistical model predicts that a 25-year-old man involved in an accident...

Credit: Jaguar Jaguar has pledged to become a fully electric car manufacturer by 2025, phasing out diesel and internal combustion engines as part of its new push to become a luxury brand. In a bold move amid a global pandemic and the UK's departure from the EU, Jaguar is not...

Credit: Shutterstock/mikolajn Electric cars have the potential to help in our fight against climate disaster. For example, if all cars in the UK were electric, the country's emissions would drop by 12%. But electric cars might also be able to address another issue that's affecting people around the world.Traffic-related fatalities...

Figure 1: Global emissions per sector. Credit: https://pure.tue.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/169887108/thesis In order to combat the rise in the average temperature on earth, the emission of greenhouse gases will have to be reduced. In the transport sector, one way to do this is to increase the energy efficiency of the driveline of long-haul...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain With its historic seven hills, crazy traffic, cobbles and notoriously crumbling roads, Rome has never been the ideal city for cyclists—but with the coronavirus pandemic, things are changing. As elsewhere, streets emptied by COVID-19 restrictions have given cyclists room to breathe, but a new network of...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Research from the University of Aberdeen has found that general aviation pilots do not consider stress to be as great a risk to flight safety as other factors such as inclement weather. This is contrary to guidance from flight safety bodies that state stress can compromise...

The Trustonomy project is researching better ways for the car and driver to switch control between each other. Credit: Trustonomy Project Consortium Picture yourself speeding down the highway with no hands on the wheel, checking your emails while your car takes care of responding to what's happening on the road....

This Feb. 9, 2019, file photo shows a sign bearing the company logo outside a Tesla store in Cherry Creek Mall in Denver. Federal safety regulators have sent a team to investigate the fatal crash of a Tesla electric car near Houston in which local authorities say no one was...

China is the world's biggest and most rapidly electrifying auto market Thought Big Tech was taking over your life through smartphones? It may be coming for your car next as Chinese firms lead a stampede into auto manufacturing in their battle for more consumers. Cars are the next major prize...

Toyota showed off at the Shanghai motor show a number of electric vehicles for the Chinese market, currently the only country where it offers electric versions of its popular models Toyota, which pioneered hybrid cars, unveiled Monday plans for its first global line-up of battery electric vehicles as other carmakers...

This Feb. 9, 2019, file photo shows a sign bearing the company logo outside a Tesla store in Cherry Creek Mall in Denver. Federal safety regulators have sent a team to investigate the fatal crash of a Tesla electric car near Houston in which local authorities say no one was...

Stephan Wollenstein, CEO of Volkswagen Group China, prepares to present the ID 6 SUV during a launch event at the Shanghai Auto Show in Shanghai on Monday, April 19, 2021. Volkswagen unveiled the electric SUV made for China ahead of the opening Monday of the Shanghai auto show, the industry's...

A comparison summary of deep neural networks (DNNs) and discrete choice models (DCMs) characteristics Credit: Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Researchers at the Future Urban Mobility Interdisciplinary Research Group at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, have created a synthetic framework known as...