Green Car Congress
JANUARY 9, 2016
A new report, “ Automated Vehicle Crash Rate Comparison Using Naturalistic Data ,” performed by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and commissioned by Google, shows that the crash rates for self-driving cars are lower than the national crash rate of conventional cars. to as much as 59.7%.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 25, 2019
Virginia drivers observed in a 2018 IIHS roadside survey were 57 percent more likely to be manipulating a cellphone than drivers in a 2014 survey. of drivers in Northern Virginia were observed talking on a hand-held cellphone, compared with 4.1% The percentage of drivers observed manipulating a phone rose from 2.3% in 2014 to 3.4%
Green Car Congress
MARCH 16, 2015
As a point of comparison, Peabody Energy, the world’s largest coal company, with operations in the US and Australia, produced 227.2 million tons of combined production last year, according to the companies’ respective annual reports. Murray with ~65 million, Foresight with 22.5 million tons, about 83% of that (189 million tons) in the US.).
Green Car Congress
JULY 15, 2011
Comparison of biomass-to-wheel (BTW) efficiency for different biomass utilization scenarios. However, notes Virginia Tech Prof. Sugar Fuel Cell Vehicles and BEVs charged with electricity from a fuel cell (green bars) were the most efficient. Huang and Zhang. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 27, 2013
A 2009 SAE paper by a team from Virginia Tech and Argonne National Laboratory found that a simulated PnG driving strategy in a Ford Focus delivered 33-77% fuel economy improvement depending on different speed ranges and acceleration times.
Green Car Congress
MAY 23, 2012
As a comparison, a typical terrestrial forest stores about 30,000 metric tons per square kilometer, most of which is in the form of wood. —co-author Karen McGlathery, a scientist at the University of Virginia and NSF’s Virginia Coast Reserve LTER site. —Fourqurean et al.
Green Car Congress
JULY 7, 2015
The first is a technology developed by Virginia Tech Professor Barry Goodell that borrows from the processes used by brown rot fungi that are commonly found breaking down woody debris on the forest floor. Alfredsen was also a visiting scientist on sabbatical in Goodell’s laboratory at Virginia Tech two years ago.
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