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INRIX: shared bikes and scooters could replace nearly 50% of downtown vehicle trips

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The high proportion of short-distance trips—independent of a city’s density or public transit network—highlights the universal potential for shared scooters and bikes. These cities also feature warm climates with minimal topographic variation, providing further support for micromobility.

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International team uncovers mechanisms of VW, Fiat software defeat device code

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An international team of researchers has uncovered the mechanisms of two families of software defeat devices for diesel engines: one used by the Volkswagen Group to pass emissions tests in the US and Europe, and a second found in Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Computer scientist Kirill Levchenko led the research effort at UC San Diego.

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U Minn seeking to license new process to produce isoprene from biomass at high yield; green tires

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Researchers from the University of Minnesota, with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, have developed a new high-yield process—a hybrid of fermentation followed by thermochemical catalysis—to produce renewable isoprene from biomass. Abdelrahman, Dae Sung Park, Katherine P. Vinter, Charles S. 6b03335.

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New low-cost, lightweight magnesium sheet alloy with good formability for automotive applications; 1.5x stronger than aluminum

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A research team at Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and Nagaoka University of Technology has developed a new high-strength magnesium sheet alloy (Mg–1.1Al–0.3Ca–0.2Mn–0.3Zn) that has excellent room-temperature formability comparable to that of the aluminum sheet metal currently used in body panels of some automobiles.

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Spanish researchers propose new LOHC-based system for on-demand hydrogen production, storage and transport

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The system can be easily adapted to non-static energy generation and use systems, such as automobiles; the use of silane-alcohol as LOHC allows working at low temperatures in obtaining the gas and the technology circumvents the safety problems of hydrogen storage. Ventura-Espinosa, D., Carretero-Cerdán, A., and Mata, J.

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Renewable-methanol fueled Geely cars in fleet testing in Iceland; 70% reduction in WTW CO2 compared to gasoline

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Among drivers testing the vehicles were CRI staff and members of the Icelandic Automobile Association as well as several local service providers in the auto industry. The association was officially launched by the founding partners in Brussels on November 30, 2017. CRI incorporated a joint venture in China under the name CRI Ji Xin.

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Researchers at KAUST, Saudi Aramco evaluating low-octane fuels for gasoline compression ignition engines

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Gasoline compression ignition (GCI) is an experimental engine technology that could consume 25% less energy than a conventional automobile engine. 2017) “Ignition studies of two low-octane gasolines.” Earlier post.) GCI uses a gasoline-type fuel, but rather than ignited with a spark, it is compression-ignited like diesel. Lovisotto, L.,

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