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mpg from the revised value for November, according to the monthly report from Dr. Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). The average fuel economy of new vehicles sold in the US 2017 was 25.2 l/100 km)—down 0.2 l/100 km), unchanged from 2016.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The University of Michigan is entering two separate agreements with Chinese institutions targeting automated and connected vehicles. million research agreement with the Chongqing Sokon Industry Group establishes the University of Michigan-Sokon Research Center in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering. Second, a $2.5-million

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JANUARY 10, 2017

Global auto supplier DENSO announced the opening of the DENSO R&D Lab at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to accelerate development of new auto safety technologies and create new research opportunities for engineering students. DENSO’s lab is a simulation environment with high-speed computing and high-capacity data storage.

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At WCX 17: SAE World Congress Experience, SAE International and General Motors announced the eight North American universities which will compete in the upcoming AutoDrive Challenge. The participating universities are: Kettering University. Michigan State University. Michigan Tech. Texas A&M University.

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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). The maximum consumption per capita (505 gallons) was reached in 1978.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The average fuel economy (window-sticker value) of new vehicles sold in the US in August 2017 was 25.3 mpg from July, according to the latest monthly report from Dr. Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). in June 2017, up from 0.82

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After leaving GM in 2009, Dr. Burns was a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan (2011-2015), and Director of the Program for Sustainable Mobility at Columbia University (2010-2014). in Mechanical Engineering from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University), an M.S. He received a B.S.

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The period covered is 1984 through 2017. by 2017 (to 8,834 miles). by 2017 (to 22,796 miles). Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. population). per person and by 6.4% per household).

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

mpg from September, according to the monthly report from Dr. Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). in August 2017, up from 0.81 in July 2017 (the lower the value, the better). in August 2017, up from 0.81 l/100 km), down 0.1

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APRIL 22, 2019

In a recent article , I examined changes in distance driven in the United States during the period from 1984 through 2017. While this rate has been on a rebound since 2013, the 2017 rate is still down from 2004 by 5.2%. by 2017 (to 0.769 vehicles). Distance driven per person reached a maximum in 2004. from its maximum.

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These vehicles will be part of a test fleet based at the GM Technical Center in Warren, Michigan. GM’s fleet of self-driving 2017 Chevrolet Volt electric vehicles will first be deployed as part of a broader test program at GM’s Technical Centre in Warren, Michigan.

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AUGUST 13, 2017

Michigan State University researchers are experimenting with harvesting seed oil to make biofuels. Froehlich, Agnieszka Zienkiewicz, Hope Lynn Hersh, Christoph Benning (2017) “A Plastid Phosphatidylglycerol Lipase Contributes to the Export of Acyl Groups from Plastids for Seed Oil Biosynthesis” The Plant Cell doi: 10.1105/tpc.17.00397.

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The previous study compared data for 1983 (as the baseline) with those for 2008, 2011, 2014, and 2017. That was followed by modest increases in the licensure for all age groups between 2014 and 2017. The present study compares data for 2018 (released in late December 2019) with data for 1983 and 2014.

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JULY 7, 2017

mpg from May, according to the latest monthly report from Dr. Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). in April 2017, down from 0.85 in March 2017 (the lower the value, the better). l/100 km)—down 0.2 The value for June is up 5.0

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MARCH 11, 2020

In the previous analysis , I examined the data from 1984 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. By Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research. This analysis adds new calculations for 2018.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The analysis uses the estimates for 2012 and 2017. The table below shows the percentages of workers who worked at home, both for the entire country and for the 15 largest cities, with the cities listed in decreasing order of this percentage in 2017. in 2017), and for each examined city except for San Jose (which showed a decrease).

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Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). The average fuel economy for model year 2017 vehicles (sold October 2016 through September 2017) was 25.2 The average fuel economy for model year 2017 vehicles (sold October 2016 through September 2017) was 25.2

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AUGUST 8, 2017

mpg from June, according to the latest monthly report from Dr. Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). in May 2017, down from 0.84 in April 2017 (the lower the value, the better). l/100 km)—up 0.3 The value for July is up 5.3 mpg from the peak of 25.5

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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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JUNE 6, 2017

l/100 km)—unchanged from April and the same as a year ago, according to the latest monthly report from Dr. Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). in March 2017, unchanged from the value for February 2017 (the lower the value the better). .

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MARCH 26, 2019

The years examined were 1987 through 2017 (in five-year increments). From 1987 to 2017, proved reserves of crude oil increased by 136% in the world, compared with an increase of 24% in the United States. The corresponding percentage in 2017 was down to 1.8%, which was the minimum for the examined years. was reached in 2012.

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MAY 4, 2017

mpg from the value for March, according to the latest monthly report from Dr. Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). . in February 2017, up 0.01 from the value for January 2017 (the lower the value the better). in February 2017, up 0.01

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FEBRUARY 2, 2019

The first analysis is an update of the licensing trends through 2017. The years included in the first analysis were 1983 and 2008 (the same as in our original study), and three additional years spaced three years apart (2011, 2014, and 2017). Of those aged 20 to 24 and without a license in 2007, 45% had one by 2017. minus 81.7

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MARCH 19, 2019

During the fourth quarter of 2017 retail e-commerce sales totaled $119.0 The years analyzed were 2007 and 2017 (the latest available survey year). Given the sizes of the standard errors, none of the three variables of interest showed a statistically significant difference between 2007 and 2017. of all retail sales.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

The examined data were for 1990 and 2017. The data in the table below show that the largest relative changes from 1990 to 2017 in greenhouse gas emissions by economic sector occurred in industry (a decrease from 36.3% The raw data came from EPA. The analysis is an update of a study published in 2016.

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The analysis used the following data for cars and for SUVs: Average real-world vehicle fuel economy for model year 2017 vehicles (based on the information from the Environmental Protection Agency ). Average vehicle occupancy in 2017 for privately operated household vehicles (from Oak Ridge National Laboratory ).

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APRIL 7, 2017

mpg from the value for February, according to the monthly report from Dr. Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). in January 2017, up 0.01 in January 2017, up 0.01 l/100 km)—up 0.1 The value for March is up 5.1 mpg from the peak of 25.5

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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. Long-wheel-base vehicles. Consequently, flying passengers in 2020 contributed approximately twice the emissions per mile flown than those in 2019.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). This likely reflects both a continuing increase in the proportion of light trucks sold each month, as well as the recent calculation adjustments for window-sticker values implemented by the EPA for model year 2017, they suggested.

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MAY 26, 2022

—James Turner, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). A study of a 2017 Toyota Mirai fuel cell by Argonne National Laboratory found fuel cell stack efficiency below 50% and fuel cell system efficiency dropping below 40% at high loads.

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Christopher Cote from Edward Fox Photography IEEE Fellow John Verboncoeur Nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors Verboncoeur is senior associate dean for research and graduate studies at Michigan State University’s engineering college, in East Lansing. in molecular science from Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

My previous update included data 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. Calculated vehicle fuel economy is available going back to 1923. Concerning the latter: Even if all a{1.4

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DECEMBER 9, 2016

l/100 km)—unchanged from the revised value for October, according to the monthly report from Dr. Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). For model year 2017, the EPA revised its methodology for calculating the window-sticker fuel-economy value for new vehicles.

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MARCH 15, 2021

The other teams selected to move on to Phase II are the University of California Berkeley, Michigan Technical University and Ohio State University.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

A team led by Southwest Research Institute has applied connectivity and automation to achieve a 20% improvement in efficiency on a 2017 Toyota Prius Prime. Earlier post.).

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A test deployment of a new hub-and-shuttle urban mobility system will take place on the University of Michigan’s North Campus. million grant from the Michigan Institute for Data Science. The limited test deployment would likely mark the world’s first on-the-ground implementation of such a system. —Pascal Van Hentenryck.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

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. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan.

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