Feb 20, 2025 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Oceanography, Robots
It’s spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean. Long bright days and rising temperatures have awakened the phytoplankton. The spring bloom has begun, and populations of these tiny...
Feb 20, 2025 | Smart Cities
‘Work smarter, not harder’ aren’t just words to live by for Western engineering professor Ayan Sadhu. For Sadhu, Canada Research Chair in Smart and Sustainable Civil Infrastructure, it’s how cities like New York, Singapore and Seoul grew to become...
Feb 19, 2025 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Trucks
Discussion about autonomous trucks continues to be a hot topic at statehouses across the country. More than half of all states have acted in recent years to put in place rules related to autonomous trucks. South Dakota established a regulatory framework a year ago to...
Feb 18, 2025 | Smart Mobility Today
I thought there were two articles that were very interesting when considered together in the most recent Smart Mobility Today. The first, Ford’s uptick in electric car sales at the end of last year and second, studies showing that BEVs are reaching the same...
Feb 17, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Materials, Smart Cities
A new study has unveiled a cutting-edge framework that harnesses deep learning and remote sensing to identify building materials with remarkable accuracy. This innovative approach enables the development of high-resolution material intensity databases—an essential...
Feb 14, 2025 | Aerial Vehicles, Aeronautics, Air Mobility
SkyDrive has long taken a leadership role in Japan’s nascent eVTOL industry with sights on eventually making its flying cars as ubiquitous as automobiles. With time winding down on its long-time goal of unveiling its first production-bound multirotor electric...
Feb 13, 2025 | Auto Industry, Electric Vehicles, US Economy
In January, Ford set new records for overall electric vehicle sales and for Mustang Mach-E sales. Last month, the American automaker sold a total of 5,666 EVs stateside–a 21.2% increase over the same period last year. The Mustang Mach-E electric...
Feb 13, 2025 | Electric Vehicles
Reliability and longevity concerns may once have been among the most common reasons for not buying an electric vehicle. A new study published in Nature Energy claims that the reliability of battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs) has increased considerably...
Feb 13, 2025 | Charging, Electric Vehicles
Gov. Mike DeWine’s administration has embraced federal funding to install new electric-vehicle charging stations along highways around Ohio, erecting nearly a third of the 58 stations set up nationwide so far with the money. But it’s now unclear whether Ohio will...
Feb 13, 2025 | Europe, Hydrogen
Finnish company P2X Solutions has started commercial green hydrogen production at its facility that is first-of-a-kind in Finland and one of the first in Europe, it said on Wednesday. A number of European companies, such as oil majors British BP (BP.L),...
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