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Opinion: The New Audi A6 Avant C9

Clean Fleet Report

This is a specific automobile possessing capabilities for not just procuring public awareness, but as well eliciting a sentiment involving passionate yearningan explicit depiction regarding vehicular artistry. The inside constitutes a lavish refuge; each part has been contemplated to institute an environment including both ease and elegance.

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The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars

Cars That Think

In the 2005 Grand Challenge, Carnegie Mellon Universitys H1ghlander was one of five autonomous cars to finish the race. He loaned it to the museum in 2006, and since 2008 it has resided permanently in the museums collections, alongside other remarkable specimens in robotics and automobiles.

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Studies Claim EVs Make People More Carsick

The Truth About Cars

With the above in mind, it would seem like an automobile that didn’t create a surplus of conflicting sensory inputs would actually create fewer instances of motion sickness. Yet, traveling in an EV for the first time is a new motion environment for the brain, which needs adaptation,” Emond explains.

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Study finds automobile tires are a potential source of carcinogenic dibenzopyrenes to the environment

Green Car Congress

A new study by researchers from Stockholm University concludes that automobile tires may be a potential previously unknown source of carcinogenic dibenzopyrenes—a type of high molecular weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)—to the environment. Automobile tire rubber in general consists of approximately 40?

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Daimler and University of Stuttgart partner on research on lightweight construction

Green Car Congress

—Professor Peter Middendorf, Head of the Institute for Aircraft Design at the University of Stuttgart. Lightweight construction is an integral component of Daimler’s strategy on the road to sustainable mobility.

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California Energy Commission awards UCLA $1.9M for research on sustainable communities; reduction in use of automobiles and VMT

Green Car Congress

The California Energy Commission has awarded the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) $1.9 UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability will serve as the lead for the center, which will be a multi-campus effort that includes UC Berkeley and UC Davis. Better land use planning and design of community systems.

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Audi and 4 US universities tackle urban mobility challenges in 3-year research initiative

Green Car Congress

After an open request for proposals to US universities, and the accompanying selection process, Audi signed an agreement with the four research universities to pursue the following topics: Audi Urban Crash Analysis. With this initiative, the universities, ERL and Audi want to cover the complete process of navigating in a megacity.

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