article thumbnail

Volkswagen and Faurecia delivering PPE to New York City Javits Center and area hospitals

Green Car Congress

Volkswagen of America and Faurecia are collaborating to manufacture Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) items needed on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis response.

article thumbnail

Stratasys responds to COVID-19 pandemic by ramping up production of 3D-printed personal protection equipment

Green Car Congress

These include Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Queensborough Community College in New York City, and the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga. A number of other large manufacturers and educational institutions with production grade 3D printers have donated their capacity to help.

Personal 221
article thumbnail

AI Tool for COVID Monitoring Offers Solution for Urban Congestion

Cars That Think

This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. By exploring these different trends, we were trying to better understand if there are new patterns during and after the lockdown.” Historically, researchers might need to actually go to the site and measure the distance.

article thumbnail

NYU review study suggests potential for gauging health risks of air pollution on individual level

Green Car Congress

The level of practical use of these personal monitoring methods has not yet been developed to the point of directly impacting policy (e.g., There are challenges in enabling policies that limit personal exposures, but the likely improvements in health and welfare are potentially massive. —Caplin et al. billion a year.

Pollution 191
article thumbnail

Granville T. Woods: Smartest Guy in the Room

Cars That Think

Woods was endowed with intellectual gifts that allowed him, despite no formal engineering study, to become one of the most prolific U.S. inventors in electrical and mechanical engineering during the late 19th century. I think Woods clearly recognized ‘No, I’m the smartest person in the room. Who was Granville T.

article thumbnail

Archer Midnight eVTOL electric plane unveiling: service to NYC in 2025

Teslarati

Electric plane manufacturer Archer has unveiled its Archer Midnight eVTOL and announced that it will be servicing New York City starting in 2025. Shortly after that, in 2025, Archer will begin service between New York City and Newark International Airport, with numerous routes planned for the future.

article thumbnail

Berkeley study finds self-driving electric taxi fleets in Manhattan would deliver significant cost and environmental benefits

Green Car Congress

Using models they built and data from more than 10 million taxi trips in New York City, they found that the cost of service provided by a fleet of shared automated electric vehicles (SAEVs) would be $0.29-$0.61 The EV industry is focusing on the personal car market, trying to make the range as large as possible.

Taxi 199