Green Car Congress
AUGUST 28, 2019
Researchers at MIT and the Ford Motor Company have found that depending on the location, lightweight conventional vehicles could have a lower lifecycle greenhouse gas impact than electric vehicles, at least in the near term. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 3, 2021
In a recent collaborative study led by the University of Maryland (UMD), researchers found that consumers tend to buy something less fuel efficient than they normally would for their second car after buying an eco-friendly vehicle. Then, I tend to buy a bigger second car. —James Archsmith.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
An analysis by a team from the University of California, Davis, MIT and Yale suggests that households that buy a fuel-efficient vehicle tend to compensate for that purchase by buying a bigger, more powerful second vehicle. This unintended effect could erode goals of fuel economy standard policies by up to 60%.
Cars That Think
JULY 15, 2023
Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center CFS, a startup spun out of decades of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is among the leaders of a new wave of fusion-energy projects that have emerged in the past decade, taking advantage of technological advances as well as a surge in private-sector investment.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Research Specialist, MIT Media Lab. Assistant Professor, University of Toronto. In short, I’d bet that any decent university or corporate robotics lab with a similar budget and an active PR team would be able to pull this off. Assistant Professor, Florida State University. Kate Darling. BACK TO TOP ↑ ]. Animesh Garg.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 3, 2021
Rather, the original spark often comes from a university lab , a renegade group at a large company, or a hobbyist building stuff for fun. Catmull and Blanchard had been involved with software designed to build 3D geometric objects at the University of Utah. Note that Jobs did not buy Pixar. And he agreed. Pixar Image Computer.
Cars That Think
JULY 21, 2021
Lowe's plan for the PC called for buying existing components and software and bolting them together into a package aimed at the consumer market. In reality, customers were buying 200,000 PCs per month by the second year. People could buy the machines at ComputerLand , a popular retail chain in the United States.
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