Green Car Congress
JUNE 10, 2023
A team of MIT engineers is developing a 1MW motor that could be a key stepping stone toward electrifying larger aircraft. The project is sponsored by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI). As designed, the MIT electric motor and power electronics are each about the size of a checked suitcase weighing less than an adult passenger.
Green Car Congress
JULY 27, 2020
The MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future has released a new research brief examining the future of autonomous vehicles. The crucial role of public transit for connecting workers to workplaces will endure: the future of work depends in large part on how people get to work.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 26, 2022
The rapidly growing space industry may have a greater climate effect than the aviation industry and undo repair to the protective ozone layer if left unregulated, according to a new study led by UCL and published in the journal Earth’s Future as an open-access paper. —Ryan et al. —Ryan et al.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 14, 2022
Researchers at MIT have identified , quantified, and modeled a major reason for the poor performance of electroreduction processes to convert CO 2 to fuel or other useful chemicals. The research was supported by Shell, through the MIT Energy Initiative. A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Langmuir. —Soto et al.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
A team at MIT has analyzed what has accounted for the extraordinary savings and found that by far the biggest single factor was work on research and development, particularly in chemistry and materials science. This is really getting at the fundamental mechanisms of technological change. —Jessika Trancik.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 11, 2017
As part of MIT’s five-year Plan for Action on Climate Change, the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) has launched a major study—“Mobility of the Future”—to explore how consumers and markets will respond to potentially disruptive technologies, business models, and government policies.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Researchers at MIT have determined that growth in aviation causes twice as much damage to air quality as to the climate. —lead researcher Dr Sebastian Eastham, from the Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. times higher than the climate impact per unit of fuel burn.
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