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Relationship between distance driven and economic activity: 1946-2017

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For each year from 1946 through 2017, distance driven by all vehicles was obtained from the U.S. Thereafter, this measure increased until plateauing from the early 1970s through the early 1990s, and then decreased through 2017. The 2017 value—177.4 from 2000 to 2017. in 2000 to 0.7% in 2000 to 8.9%

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Gasoline consumption per capita in 2020 was on par with that in 1965

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Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. Total consumption (millions of gallons). Consumption per capita. Consumption per capita (gallons). Consumption per capita (gallons).

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Production of crude oil as a percentage of proved reserves: Recent worldwide and US trends

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This analysis is an update of the analysis that examined the situation through 2017. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. Production as % of reserves. to 8.8%) and the world (from 3.4%

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UQ, GMG graphene-enhanced aluminum-ion batteries show very high power density, long life

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(GMG) reported initial performance data for graphene-enhanced aluminum-ion batteries developed by GHG and the University of Queensland (UQ). 2017, 8:14283 2. University of Queensland testing data. The experiments were performed at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) at UQ. Hongjie Dai, Nat.

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Tsinghua team develops bio-inspired self-healing sulfur electrodes; almost no capacity decay after 2000 cycles

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By mimicking fibrinolysis, a biological self-healing process, researchers at China’s Tsinghua University have developed a self-healing sulfur microparticle (SMiP) cathode. In a paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , the researchers report that the SMiP cathode attained an optimized capacity (∼3.7 mg (S) cm −2. 6b12358.

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Traditional retail sales steady despite e-commerce

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In comparison, the corresponding percentage in 2000 was only 0.9%. That is consistent with a recent finding that, between 2007 and 2017, there was no significant reduction in the amount of travel in connection with purchasing goods and services. by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research. of all retail sales— the highest percentage yet.

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Meet the Candidates Running for 2025 IEEE President-Elect

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Fran Graley Photography IEEE Fellow Mary Ellen Randall Nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors Randall founded Ascot Technologies in 2000 in Cary, N.C. In 2001 he founded the computational engineering science program at the University of California, Berkeley, and he served as its chair until 2010.