Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 19, 2022
MIT researchers led by MIT Professor and colleagues at Brown University have developed an approach to controlling dendrite propagation in solid-state batteries. MIT graduate student Cole Fincher developed a way of making thin cells using a transparent electrolyte, allowing the whole process to be directly seen and recorded.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
Researchers at MIT report that the entrance of transportation network companies (TNCs)—specifically Uber and Lyft, which together have a 98% share of the market—in cities led to increased road congestion in terms of both intensity (by 0.9%) and duration (by 4.5%); an 8.9% —Diao et al.
Green Car Congress
JULY 28, 2021
In April, the BMW Group, WWF and other companies—including the Volvo Group—undertook, as a precautionary measure, not to use deep-ocean minerals or finance deep-sea mining until comprehensive scientific research into the impact of deep-sea mining can be conducted and the consequences for the environment are clearly assessed.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 11, 2022
Now, a team of researchers at MIT and Brookhaven National Laboratory has developed a way of achieving results that equal or surpass the durability of the coated surfaces, but with no need for any coatings. The research was supported by the US Army Research Office through MIT’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 12, 2023
Back in 2005, before smartphones were generally available, MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan was so fed up with commuting delays in Boston that he built a mobile system to monitor road conditions. Today the Massachusetts company is the largest telematics service provider in the world. He is also a CMT cofounder and the company’s CEO.
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
So while researchers and companies large and small invest in the zero-carbon future of the field, others are beginning to study what supplies and infrastructure on the ground would also be needed to make hydrogen aviation a reality. Hydrogen may be a good thing, but you gotta look at it from the full system level, right?,” asks Professor R.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
A model developed by Researchers at MIT and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) have developed a model that uses satellite imagery to tag road features in digital maps to help improve GPS navigation. Most updated digital maps are from places that big companies care the most about.
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