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MIT Looks Ahead to Hydrogen’s Aviation Future

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John Hansman , an aeronautics and astronautics professor at MIT and director of the university’s International Center for Air Transportation. Hydrogen may be a good thing, but you gotta look at it from the full system level, right?,” asks Professor R. Because it won’t work unless you have all the pieces to make it work as an operating system.

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Ford, MIT project uses LiDAR, cameras to measure pedestrian traffic & predict demand for new, on-demand electric shuttles

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Ford Motor Company and MIT are collaborating on a new research project that measures how pedestrians move in urban areas to improve certain public transportation services, such as ride-hailing and point-to-point shuttles services. The MIT research is being conducted by the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department’s Aerospace Controls Lab.

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MIT study finds real-world NOx from diesels cars in Europe greatly exceeds laboratory levels; transboundary emissions cause 70% of health impacts

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A new study by MIT researchers, published this month in Atmospheric Environment , finds that in Europe, 10 major auto manufacturers produced diesel cars, sold between 2000 and 2015, that generate up to 16 times more NO x emissions on the road than in regulatory tests—a level that exceeds European limits but does not violate any EU laws.

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MIT researchers developing algorithms to predict more accurately which cars are likeliest to run red lights

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Researchers at MIT are devising algorithms for more accurately estimating driver behavior at road intersections—i.e., The team presented the work earlier this year at the 2011 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium in Germany. The team has introduced two classes of algorithms that can classify drivers as “compliant” or “violating”.

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MIT team devises approaches for practical carbon-nanotube-coated carbon fiber; stronger, more electrically conductive

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MIT scientists demonstrated two approaches for growing CNTs on carbon fiber without degrading the fiber strength. Researchers at MIT have demonstrated two approaches for producing carbon fibers coated in carbon nanotubes without degrading the underlying fiber’s strength. Credit: ACS, Steiner et al. Click to enlarge.

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Tesla Giga Berlin uses half as much water as asparagus farm

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Screenshot) Und liebe Presse: redet mit unterschiedlichen Betroffenen, nicht nur einer Handvoll Berufsdemonstranten. Even after the "water issues due to #GigaBerlin in #Grünheide " was debunked, still several hundred Againsters were mobilized from all over Germany bringing chaos to us. Bitte checkt endlich die Fakten (s.

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New Wolfspeed EV chip factory poised to tackle automotive chip shortage

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An upcoming EV chip manufacturing plant in Germany is poised to finally tackle the chip shortage that has ravaged automakers worldwide. From there, Wolfspeed and ZF would be able to quickly and efficiently meet the demand for EV chips of Porsche in Stuttgart, BMW in Bavaria, and Mercedes in central Germany.

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