Professor Axel van de Walle, an engineer at Brown University, Rhode island, who led the research,
They worked out its melting point would be 474°C higher than Hf-Ta-C. Professor van de Walle and Dr Qijun Hong,
Professor van de Walle added: Melting point isn't the only property that's important in material applications.'
though imperfect method of access to homes, vehicles and even cupboards. why do we still use them?
moves their hands in the air or moves their eyes in a car heads up display or under a VR hood,
#Battery swap charges moped in 10 seconds Smartscooter from Gogoro is moped an electric that charges in under 10s
as distance sensors in cars. Another application is the measurement of dust particles and trace gases in environmental monitoring.
as distance sensors in cars. Another application is the measurement of dust particles and trace gases in environmental monitoring.
#Will car makers become internet companies? Connected vehicles will create a new business opportunity proving the internet-based mobile services to the driver.
Car manufacturers will soon be competing against technology companies to provide the online services to connected cars. Autonomous connected vehicles are seen as the first major market for so-called internet of things (Iot.
This will be an important market for IC and hardware system suppliers. But arguably the biggest market opportunity will be in the provision v of online services that support the Iot devices in the car.
Car manufacturers see this as their domain and they want a major slice of the business. But to do this they will have to compete with IT firms
Existing automotive technologies and business models that have worked for the car industry for a century are not so well suited to a changing car market with autonomous vehicles and Iot-connected cars.
In order to address the connected vehicle opportunity it will be necessary to form cross-industry groups. This will combine car makers with electronics firms and software services suppliers.
No single sector will be able to capitalise on this market, due to its diversity and the range of technologies required.
Putting electronics management systems in cars was only the beginning. Connecting vehicles to the internet will add a far greater level of complexity to the automotive business model.
NXP believes car makers will find themselves fighting on two major battlefronts. Their core activity will be designing new forms of autonomous connected vehicles,
but to be successful in the connected vehicles market they will need to develop and sell internet based services.
Whether they are successful in doing this will determine they business growth in the years ahead.
#Raising Millions With Equity Crowdfunding Will Cost You, But How much? The recently released Regulation A is the first section of the JOBS Act that allows a company to raise capital from the general public.
he says. ou have to drive a car, vacuum the floor or take the garbage out.
Fire engine Red, which does marketing, technology and data solutions, was founded as a remote company in 2001.
#DOE, EEI to Boost Production, Use of Electric vehicles The Edison Electric Institute and the Department of energy announced a partnership that aims to boost the production
and use of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure in the United states. DOE Secretary Ernest Moniz and EEI President Tom Kuhn signed a memorandum of understanding Monday to take several joint actions,
The initiative will total more than $90 million in 2015 with EEI member companies adding more than 800 new plug-in vehicles
and its partnering member companies to invest at least 5 percent of their annual fleet budgets in plug-in vehicles and technologies.
Ford motor company announced it would allow competitors to purchase its electrified vehicle technology patents in an effort to help accelerate industry-wide research and development of electrified vehicles
The most powerful machine is so strong that its magnetism is enough to lift a lorry.
#Google throws nearly a billion Android users under the bus refuses to patch OS vulnerability When it comes to providing security updates for previous products,
given that it threw Microsoft under the bus in December when it published the full details of a security flaw two days before Redmond patched it,
#lastic bucklinghoneycomb structures bounce right back from major impacts The concept of impact resistance likely brings to mind vehicle airbags, trampolines, helmets, kneepads,
Leiden University student Florijn dreamed of alleablecar bumpers at that time. magine a car bumper that you can program for instance
and drive a miniature car as the water evaporates please see the video on this page.
Your car uses GPS map data to tell the headlamps when to swivel. If GPS isn available,
If the car has built-in GPS, Ford says, the car will use the map data to see
when the car is about to go around a curve. It then swivels the headlamps to the right
or left to lead the driver into the curve. Ford since 2007 has had an Adaptive Front Lighting System
and Traffic Sign Recognition that turned the car headlamps up to 15 degrees as the driver turned the wheel to steer into the curve.
The two most serious threats are illuminated inside the car on an LCD display. This is Ford take on infrared night vision systems that now employ algorithms to detect people and animals,
then mask or move the elements that would shine at oncoming cars. That would give you a mostly high-beam view of the road.
but that the address entry process takes more time with far costlier car navigation c
but weighs less than a car and can stay in the air for months at a time. Facebook has announced also
but weighs less than a car and can stay in the air for months at a time. Facebook has announced also
but weighs less than a car and can stay in the air for months at a time. Facebook has announced also
but weighs less than a car and can stay in the air for months at a time. Facebook has announced also
and car surfaces would be a ar bigger market Other markets could open, however, as prices are driven down. utomotive is potentially important,
Professor Wass explains. arbon fiber composites have been used widely in Formula one and performance cars for many years,
The threat came late last week after a Turkish court banned media coverage of a police raid on Turkish Intelligence agency trucks,
Perhaps not surprisingly, the news organisation continued to post new messages relating to the raid on the trucks, with other Twitter users sympathetic to the media organisation stance retweeting the messages.
The satellites will be put into orbit by Launcherone Virgin galactic under-construction orbital launch vehicle a method which Branson considers highly cost effective. t much more efficient than the big rockets of the pasthe said. e can literally take off every three
Lockheed martin test fired a laser weapon in March that took out a truck engine from a mile away,
a bit like a car at a stoplight. t is very important to regulate that balance of excitation
#Plant protein Discovery Opens Door to Better Understanding of Human Gene Silencing Researchers at the Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) published a paper that they say reveals a key molecular mechanism in plants that has significant similarities to certain
and EL panels have been in use in automobiles since at least 1960 when Chrysler used them in their prestige models.
and conduct engine tests to see how it performs before eventually trying it out in vehicle fleets.
Delcourt says he could see it being used in consumer cars on a large scale"very soon.""
#Air2nitrous device claimed to cut vehicle exhaust emissions by 90 percent Driving an electric car that gives off no emissions is one of the best ways to reduce your personal transport carbon footprint.
As air from the atmosphere passes through the vehicle air filter, it then passes unobstructed through the converter ring located in the air intake duct.
Vehicle and machinery operators trying A2n out are reporting fuel savings of six to 20 percent
including long haul transportation and trucking, agriculture (tractors), mining and off-road vehicles, motorcycles, diesel trains, generators, container ships and aircraft, among others.
It is hoping to have the same impact as the catalytic converter, which was introduced in 1975 to reduce emissions
A2n has passed already California emissions standards on vehicles with and without catalytic converters. The device was shown recently at the Earth day Fair organized by the American Chamber of commerce in Shanghai on April 22,
which can vary from a 100cc scooter to a Super Panamax ship p
#Herpes virus genetically engineered to destroy skin cancer cells A new study has pointed to a chink in the armor of skin cancer cells,
#Remote-control Range rover can be driven with a smartphone app High end cars are creeping towards full autonomy,
Jaguar land rover has demonstrated a very nifty remote control app that lets you get out of your car, stand beside it
The prototype smartphone app lets you start the car and control the brakes, throttle and steering, as well as gearshifts.
The car will go a maximum 4 mph (6 km h) in remote pilot mode, but it'll stop
if the smartphone or the car key get more than 10 meters (33 ft) from the vehicle.
whether the car's collision avoidance sensors will stop you from running it into a pole.
The car uses its ultrasonic sensors to look for hazards in the environment and then autonomously executes an about-turn in as many steps as is necessary, from a simple 3-point turn towell, presumably to one of these.
or others involve complicated, unpredictable moves, like dismantling a car, that are well beyond even the most advanced robots.
The bikes were envisioned as key components of a multimodal transportation ecosystem that would also incorporate cars and public transit.
The battery can be charged directly from the vehicle outlet. The multipurpose, breakaway frame may have you thinking that the Mode:
when cars approach from behind, both via the handlebars and the accompanying Mode: Link app. It also HAS LED the latest headlight
and taillight technology, derived from vehicles like the F-150 and Ford GT, integrated into its construction."
It also syncs with the rider's Ford vehicle to provide parking location, lock/unlock functions,
and access to vehicle information including mileage, EV charge status and maintenance manual. Ford revealed the new Mode:
so next time you drive along that same road the car will know how to best light the way.
The car's camera system is also able to directly spotlight hazards with two special LED lamps positioned next to the fog lights.
depending on how close they are to the car. This spotlighting tech uses an infrared camera mounted in the grille that detects the body heat of up to eight people or large animals at a range of 120 meters (394 feet.
its sections of decking sliding out end-to-end to provide a platform for vehicles. From the time it arrives until the time that it can be used is about an hour
and used by cars to cross the Hongo River in Fukuyama City. Ario and his team are continuing to develop the technology
#Morphing tire concept adapts to suit driving conditions As the point of contact between a vehicle and the road,
tires are one of the most important parts of a car. Unfortunately, there's no one size fits all,
To pump water away from the contact patch between vehicle and road in wet conditions to prevent hydroplaning,
and devices that have significant load to shed (electric vehicles, thermostats, pool pumps and water heaters), the savings could be considerable for many regions like Texas,
One solution for boosting domestic supply of residential storage systems is to leverage vehicle battery manufacturers,
"The U k. is home to one of the only electric vehicle battery plants in the world, the Nissan plant in Tyneside.
"The dealers--not named in the note--apparently think relaxing laws that force carmakers to sell only through independent franchised stores would be good for their business.
or perhaps as a uelfor electric vehicles. These facts, and published papers from the two scientists, have fed much of the media coverage
as compared to typical lithium-ion batteries for power tools, tablets and electric vehicles. At the same time, e believe these to be the safest lithium-ion batteries ever created,
and straightforward implementation of both concurrent supercomputing over global distances and implemention of very efficient workflows and here it serves as an ideal vehicle to serve both Big data
the researchers envisage that the devices could ultimately be used in electric cars, or even in clothing to charge gadgets on the go.
and NV Energy, is a network of charging stations planned along U s. Route 95 that would finally make it far easier to drive sparsely populated, mostly desert route between Reno and Las vegas with an electric vehicle.
Though only about 1, 400 electric vehicles are registered in Nevada, the state has been paying close attention to EVS lately because of Tesla motors.
So the state fortunes will be tied to the success of electric cars. Officials thought making charging easy along the only major highway connecting the state two largest cities would be a good place to start. ee all driven this road before
said Sandoval. ow we can have confidence to charge our electric vehicles and drive them from place to place (in Nevada).
In addition to connecting the northern and southern parts of the state for electric vehicle owners, the Electric Highway is expected also to link rural areas
and bring business to those communities from EV owners who make the stop to charge their cars.
Each charging station will come with two Level 2 chargers that can charge vehicles in several hours plus one Direct current
or DC Fast Charger that can juice up compatible vehicles in less than an hour. The state is also working with Tesla motors to help increase the number of Tesla fast chargers in the state as well.
youl be able to do it with an electric vehicle, said NV Energy CEO Paul Caudill
#Google Project Soli will put gesture controls everywhere Every motion controller currently on the market may have just become obsolete thanks to Google.
#Reducing traffic congestion in India with suspended, driverless pods t an electric car, except you don drive it,
Proponents of PRT believe that such systems can provide the personal convenience of cars with the dedicated infrastructure of mass transit,
it sounds like he telling a riddle. t an electric car, except you don drive it,
Proponents of PRT believe that such systems can provide the personal convenience of cars with the dedicated infrastructure of mass transit,
super slick electronic super car that can drive itself. The R8 e-tron has been designed to showcase technology for Audi future,
and systems that allow it to drive like a high-performance car despite only being powered by batteries.
The concept car was shown off at CES Asia, where the company revealed that it go from 0 to 100 km h in just 3. 9 seconds,
which uses the data to create a comprehensive image of the environment around the car.
The car can then use that information to drive itself. That helps the car use the battery even more efficiently than it already does.
The company says that it can build the car o meet special customer requests But its main job is as a igh-tech mobile laboratory it says trying out technologies that will eventually make it to production vehicles u
#Self-healing technology one step closer after scientists produce aircraft wings which fix themselves Their research,
due to be presented at a Royal Society meeting in London this week, is being billed as an important step in an emerging field
and the technology used in cars to alert drivers when theye close to reversing into something.
with the German giant supplying western as well as Japanese carmakers, the Nikkei said. The public sector will help in developing infrastructure,
But soon, you may be able to use your device to plan your entire day from what bus you should catch in the morning to
It can tell you what time the next bus will arrive but it can also tell you to hustle
in order to catch the right bus. 11 Odd and Intriguing Smart Home Technologies"The idea is that you really have a dialogue with this system.
"If you want a vehicle to fly for you, what does need it to be like? It needs to be safe,
The PTS could also be useful for drivers of electric cars, said Williams, who noted that the system could
600 fuel cell patentsavailable through 2020 to carmakers who produce and sell fuel cell vehicles, and to parts suppliers and companies interested in building and operating fueling stations,
The carmaker hopes the move will spur worldwide development and innovation in fuel cell technologies. It comes on the heels of a similar decision by billionaire entrepreneur Elon musk to make the patents of his electric car company
Tesla motors, freely available. 10 Technologies That Will Transform Your Life"The first-generation hydrogen fuel cell vehicles,
launched between 2015 and 2020, will be critical, requiring a concerted effort and unconventional collaboration between automakers, government regulators, academia and energy providers,
citing as an example the firm's licensing of patents for hybrid vehicles. But this is the first time Toyota is making its patents available for free,
Companies that make fuel cell busses and industrial equipment can also receive the patents, and requests from nontransportation companies will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis,
Fuel cell vehicle-related patents will be available royalty-free until the end of 2020, while hydrogen-production and supply patents will remain free indefinitely.
the carmaker announced a $7. 3 million loan to the Newport Beach, California-based hydrogen fueling company Firstelement Fuel to help maintain nearly 20 fueling stations across the state.
and Mercedes announced a new luxury vehicle powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Lots of small companies are getting in on the action too,
Automatic lets you harness the computing power of your car for the sake of fuel efficiency.
This little device plugs into the diagnostic port of your vehicle, which is tucked typically between the dashboard and the brake pedal.
Once plugged in, Automatic connects the car's computer system to your smartphone, relaying data about all of your car's subsystems from the gas tank to the engine.
With this data at the ready, the device can tell you when there's something wrong with your car before it becomes a major issue,
a company spokesperson told Live Science. It's like preventative health for your car, she said,
letting you diagnose a problem before it starts eating away at your fuel efficiency or increasing your emissions.
when there's something wrong with your car, Automatic also notifies you when there's something wrong with your driving.
which could run LED LIGHTS and even drive a miniature car! Sahin informed that his system could be hundreds times cheaper to build per unit area than solar tapping,
and a miniature toy"car"that seemingly moves with miraculous efficiency. You may have to see these inventions in action to get the full grasp of just how innovative they are.
#Why hydrogen fuel cell cars are taking off The news hasn't been great for electric vehicle and hybrid sales lately.
suddenly wee seeing a whole lot of action from hydrogen-powered fuel-cell cars. This is a zero emission technology that been under the radar,
but is exploding in 2015, with available-now or soon-arriving cars from Toyota, Honda,
Mercedes-benz and Hyundai. Think of a fuel-cell car as an exhaust-free electric car with a little chemical factory producing the electrons in place of a battery.
The other advantage over battery cars is that refueling is just like getting gas, and takes only about five minutes.
market car was possible. Wee there now. Hyundai was the first out of the gate with the Tucson fuel-cell car last spring.
Initially it available only in southern California because that where the stations are. The big challenge for hydrogen is the infrastructurehe stations cost $1 million or more
Toyota just announced some stellar numbers for the car a range of 312 miles on a hydrogen fill
Toyota is preparing a big push on fuel-cell cars. ust as the Prius introduced hybrid-electric vehicles to millions of customers nearly 20 years ago,
previously mostly quiet on fuel cells though it showed an early interest in hydrogen with 7-Series cars that burned the stuff.
BMW said this week it will test a Toyota-enhanced fuel-cell car on public roads in July.
and plans a echnically mature, customer-ready vehicle sometime after 2020. Germany has one of the better hydrogen networks globally, with 18 stations and plans for 50.
but one executive said the automaker would field what could turn out to be an SUV-or crossover-based car in 2017.
and showed off the FCV Concept car at the Detroit Auto Show back in January. It plans to have the production version of that car on American roads next year.
So there a lot of news, and an invigorated sector that is finally going from the planning stages to the showroom floor
or as a hyper-efficient seat warmer in a car. Although only flat mesh connected into a tube has been made so far,
mobile devices and electric cars. Lithium-sulfur batteries have recently become one of the hottest topics in the field of energy storage devices due to their high energy density
It also may be possible to create an active camouflage on the exterior of vehicles that would change color to better match the surrounding environment.
Researchers from Singapore and Qubec Team up to Develop Next-Generation Materials to Power Electronic devices and Electric vehicles February 28th,
a development that could mean faster charging time and longer battery life in electric vehicles and portable electronics.
Imagine charging your cell phone in just a few seconds or fueling up an electric car in but a few minutes,
"Hamedi says the aerogel batteries could be used in electric car bodies, as well as in clothing, providing the garment has a lining.
Additionally, the emergence of green technology markets-such as hybrid and electric vehicles, direct drive wind turbine power systems and energy storage systems-have created an increased demand for permanent magnets.
Yu explains. o this may generate useful applications such as a cooling surface for vehicles, buildings, instruments,
or combusted in fuel cells-in cars for example-to drive engines. Solar fuel cell To connect an existing silicon solar cell to a battery that splits the water may well be an efficient solution now
"This could help advance efforts to develop wireless power transfer technologies for use with electric vehicles, in buildings,
devices made from it could surpass traditional electrolytic capacitors for applications in electromagnetic propulsion, electric vehicles and defibrillators.
though it doesn't match the lithium ion battery formats commonly used in electronic devices and vehicles.""This is the first time I've seen a capacitor beat a battery on energy density,
like RFID tags that currently transmit identifying info on everything from cattle to car parts,
compact micro-actuators for aerospace, automobile, biomedical, space and robotics applications; and ultra-low thermal signature actuators for sonars and defense applications.
"Hamedi says the aerogel batteries could be used in electric car bodies, as well as in clothing, providing the garment has a lining.
and they contain laser technology (developed by the University of Hertfordshire) to detect particulates from cars and lorries.
carried in cars and on buses, and static devices were attached to lampposts and stationed at roadsides and at critical pollutant sites.
whether pollution along bus routes is improved by upgrading the exhaust processing on a bus fleet; whether people living at the top of high-rise buildings experience more or less pollution than people at street level;
or a car that never needs a new coat of paint. A study done at The University of Akron may be able to make this a reality in the near future.
The automotive and motorcycle manufacturer BMW is working intensively on the industrial-scale implementation of ta-C engine components in its various vehicle models with the aim of reducing their fuel consumption.
And as a motorcycle aficionado himself he also sees another positive effect stemming from this development:
This is a significantly challenging step-it assumes that all the cars on the road become electric, and that homes and industry convert to fully electrified heating and cooling systems.
#Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors The latest buzz in the information technology industry regards he Internet of thingsthe idea that vehicles, appliances, civil-engineering structures, manufacturing equipment,
including electric cars, where they can be used alongside batteries to enhance a vehicle performance. By using a combination of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy
and tiny scales sensitive enough to detect changes in mass of a millionth of a gram,
when placed alongside a battery in an electric car, a supercapacitor is useful when a short burst of power is required,
such as when overtaking another car, with the battery providing the steady power for highway driving. upercapacitors perform a similar function to batteries
satellite or tractor, has become a precise, noninvasive and more affordable tool to check how crops are doing.
#Nanogenerator harvests power from rolling tires A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and a collaborator from China have developed a nanogenerator that harvests energy from a car's rolling tire friction.
the nanogenerator ultimately could provide automobile manufacturers a new way to squeeze greater efficiency out of their vehicles.
The nanogenerator relies on the triboelectric effect to harness energy from the changing electric potential between the pavement and a vehicle's wheels.
"The friction between the tire and the ground consumes about 10 percent of a vehicle's fuel,
During initial trials, Wang and his colleagues used a toy car with LED LIGHTS to demonstrate the concept.
They attached an electrode to the wheels of the car, and as it rolled across the ground,
"The researchers also determined that the amount of energy harnessed is directly related to the weight of a car,
Therefore the amount of energy saved can vary depending on the vehicle -but Wang estimates about a 10-percent increase in the average vehicle's gas mileage given 50-percent friction energy conversion efficiency."
"There's big potential with this type of energy, "Wang says.""I think the impact could be huge."
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