inventions

Savvy Verma, left, and Huy Tran, director of aeronautics at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, center, explain a recent air traffic management simulation to guests at Ames’ FutureFlight Central simulator on Sept. 26. Credit: NASA/Jesse Carpenter Researchers are one step closer to integrating air taxis and other electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicles into the country's busiest…

The U-turn by the European Commission delays a 10% tariff on electric car sales between the EU and UK for three years. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday hailed a deal with the European Union to delay post-Brexit tariffs on electric vehicle sales that were due to kick in from January.…

Shalinder Singh poses for photos in front of a 2024 Honda CR-V Hybrid in Sunnyvale, Calif., Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. Like many hybrid buyers, Singh, an Uber driver, said that for him, the gas savings helped tip the price equation in favor of a Honda CR-V hybrid over the corresponding gasoline model. Credit: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu America's automakers have staked their futures on the notion that electric vehicles will dominate…

Transport ministry officials arrived at Daihatsu's headquarters for an on-site inspection, which an official said will last until at least early next year. Shares in Japanese auto titan Toyota dived Thursday as a rigged safety test scandal builds at subsidiary Daihatsu, and after it recalled a million vehicles in the United States over airbag safety concerns.…

Transport ministry officials arrived at Daihatsu's headquarters for an on-site inspection, which an official said will last until at least early next year. Japanese officials on Thursday started an on-site inspection at the headquarters of Toyota subsidiary Daihatsu, the transport ministry said, after an investigation found it had rigged safety tests and was forced to suspend all shipments of its vehicles.…

The Department of Energy's latest Fuel Economy Guide includes 2024 model vehicle fuel efficiency data compiled by ORNL researchers, as well as a tool for mapping the most economical driving route. Credit: ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have identified the most energy-efficient 2024 model year vehicles available in the United States, including electric and hybrids, in the latest edition…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain On Dec. 12, the U.S. Department of Transportation issued a recall regarding Autosteer, a feature included in Tesla's semi-autonomous suite Autopilot, because "there may be an increased risk of a collision."…

The proposed technique’s workflow consists of three stages. Element detection (black box), tracking (orange box), and velocity estimation (green box) using linear regression based on subsequent frames. Credit: Neurocomputing (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2023.127057 Engineers of ICAI Group of the School of Computer Science of the University of Malaga have developed a computer vision system that estimates the speed of…

This photo provided by Hyundai shows the Ioniq 6 electric sedan. It is the quickest charging EV that Edmunds has tested to date. Credit: Hyundai Motor America via AP How much range an electric vehicle has is a primary consideration for many EV shoppers in determining which one they should purchase. But nearly as important is how quickly an EV can charge at a public fast-charging station. After all, the quicker you can charge…

Japanese automaker Daihatsu, a Toyota subsidiary, has suspended shipments of all cars amid a safety test-rigging scandal. Toyota subsidiary Daihatsu said Wednesday it will suspend shipments of all car models in Japan and abroad, following news it had rigged safety tests.…