and, like fats and oils, can be converted through hydrogenation into diesel fuel for cars or kerosene for planes.
For vehicle diesel, that takes about one year, and for kerosene about three years, Axel Kraft adds s
which is familiar from passing cars. Their sound has a higher pitch when they are approaching than
Fibers are everywhere from your underwear, pajamas, toothbrushes, tires, shoes, car seats, air filtration systems and even your clothes.
The ISEM study has been supported financially by the Automotive Australia 2020 CRC as part of its research into electric vehicles.
and plays crucial role for design of next generation electric vehicles A key to unlocking the electric vehicle capability is a lightweight and powerful battery pack. ur simple fabrication method of eco-friendly materials
Our next step is to use this material to fabricate flexible wearable supercapacitors with high power density and energy density as well as large scale supercapacitors for electric vehicles. u
which said a Tulsa woman died on Saturday after her automobile hydroplaned on a highway.
many people had to abandon their vehicles and escape on foot. And it's not even over yet:
Having an emergency bug out bag in your vehicle was a key preparedness strategy for those who had to abandon their vehicles
Many people had to abandon their vehicles in areas unfamiliar to them. It's astonishingly easy to lose your sense of direction inside a thunderstorm.
The Belgian finance minister, Johan Van Overtveldt, noted that the EU's credibility would take a substantial hit
With its road safety research, The british firm is joining a number of other car makers that have been researching the measurement of brainwaves to monitor driver concentration in the car.
if a car could effectively read the brainwaves that indicate a driver is beginning to daydream,
added Dr Epple. f Mind Sense does not detect a surge in brain activity following the car displaying a warning icon or sound,
something that would be impractical in a vehicle. Jaguar land rover is investigating a method already used by NASA to develop a pilot concentration skills
On top of brainwave monitoring, Jaguar land rover is also assessing how a vehicle could monitor the well-being of the driver using a medical-grade sensor embedded in the seat of a JAGUAR XJ.
has been adapted for in-car use and detects vibrations from the driver heart beat and breathing. s we develop more autonomous driving technologies,
added Dr Epple. o do this safely the car will need to know if the driver is alert
So our research team is looking at the potential for a range of driver monitoring technologies to give the car enough information to support this decision.
If the car detects severe health issues, or simply how alert the driver is, then the car could take steps to ensure the driver is focussed enough on the driving task to take over. onitoring the physical health of the driver could
not only detect the onset of sudden and serious illness that may incapacitate the driver, but also allow the car to monitor driver stress levels.
This would then allow the car to help reduce stress, for example by changing mood lighting, audio settings and climate control.
JLR also has a redictive Infotainment Screenprototype that uses cameras embedded in the car to track the driver hand movements
and this enables the system to predict which button the driver intends to press. This allows successful button selection to take place in mid-air,
Alternatively, if you were crawling along in traffic a timely warning through the accelerator could prevent you bumping into the car in front a
Using a modified BMW i3 electric car, the team of Moneysupermarket has given lucky members of the public the opportunity to be trained brain
and drive the car through an electroencephalography (EEG) headset manufactured by Emotiv. The BMW was fitted with a mechanical rig capable of pressing the pedals and turning the steering wheel on command
while being trained to remotely drive the car. The driverstraining involved thinking left, right, and about going forward and stopping.
This includes statistics fed back by a telematics box in the car reporting on how safely
or drive in a car while doing the Wi-fi only plan because the signals just don't carry far enough to cover you over long distances.
"I started to notice this utility van that was parked at the end of my street at, like, Sunday at 4 a m,
You can see the snowy runway you can see the trees you can even see a car pulling into the airport parking lot.
a French company that specializes in 3-D software to help engineers who design cars
Unlike simulations involving manmade objects such as cars and planes, it's very difficult to predict how the human heart will respond to stress in the real world.
In an energy conference in Paris on Tuesday, Shell CEO Ben van Beurden said that a coal-togas switch ensures a sustainable energy system tomorrow.
A Science article commenting on the new superlubricated surface mentions that"nearly one-third of a vehicle's fuel energy is spent on overcoming engine
as Simon Karger of Cambridge Consultants told Reuters. This initial version of the Chimaera is essentially a oncept car,
If you so choose to wear the onesie in the car for one hour, you will have cleaned successfully the polluted air.
#Power Up Your Tesla with Footsteps An experiment charges electric cars through floor tiles that absorb footstep energypavegen,
has collaborated with Tesla in an experiment to charge cars through the power of the footstep.
or give enough energy to even move the car by an inch, foot traffic on London busy Oxford street can generate enough energy in a day to drive an electric car 953 miles. he system works,
Pavegen CEO and Founder Laurence Kemball-Cook shares, ut we need several hundred thousand footsteps to allow the vehicle to drive 20 minutes within London busiest streets. avegen electricity
-generating tiles are gaining a lot of interest in the renewable energy sector. The startup reached its funding goal of £750, 000 (around $1. 2 million) in 60 hours from 535 investors on Crowdcube.
"Developers Cambridge Consultants say Chimaera is the equivalent of a'concept car'that demonstrates their vision for the next generation of surgery.
Luxury car manufacturer Lexus appears to be ready for him. This week, they announced that they've built a"real, rideable"hoverboard.
and they say their pilot plant in Dresden will pump out 160 litres of the of the stuff every day in the coming months to power their Audi a8 cars.
and line flexible and odd-shaped materials such as clothing or the bodies of vehicles.""There are limits to how thin a battery can be,
and could help electric cars travel further on a single charge, thanks to their light and bendy structure.
-whether that car tyres on a road or a protein flowing through a blood stream.
it could make pretty much everything from cars, trains, powerlines and computers-more efficient. here a big effort to understand friction and control it,
drawing the magnetised droplets in a new, predetermined direction, like slot cars on a track,
and retracted like a car antenna, even while it's powering a device. That means the stretchable battery can go places where normal batteries can't go,
#BMW wants to turn street lights into electric car charging stations A new technology that allows electric car drivers to charge their vehicles directly from street lights has been showcased by the BMW Mini team at the annual Low Carbon Oxford Week event in the UK.
The plan is to make driving an electric car a whole lot more appealing by making charging stations as accessible and numerous as possible.
if we want to see more electric vehicles on the road in our cities in the future,"Peter Schwarzenbauer, a member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, told the press.
Any type of electric car, regardless of the model, will work with the technology. All the city needs to provide is enough room on the side of the road for temporary parking.
It no surprise that the German car company has made a commitment to getting more electric cars on the road.
and applications that help electric car drivers locate nearby parking spots and charging stations, and are reportedly in talks with US competitors Tesla motors about their new street light charging stations. n
the project backers claim theyl be able to deliver produce rom farm to fork in under four hours and all without the usual environmental impact of truck-based food transportation across England motorways.
There could be self-healing car paint, bicycle frames and wind turbines that don crack, and car windshields that could repair themselves after an encounter with an airborne pebble.
It just a case of adding the substance to existing products, says King:""While the Bristol researchers have focused on aviation,
and pressure sensors can measure how the forces of movement are affecting those inside a vehicle, for example.
The dream is one day wel be using nothing but the boundless energy of the Sun to not only power our homes, but our cars
as parts of phones and even cars. This discovery could help improve the performance of these solar cells,
Today's batteries provide a reliable power supply for our smartphones electric cars and laptops but are unable to keep up with the growing demands placed on them.
This may also increase the range of electric cars by one and a half times the standard amount.
Metallic honeycombs are used already as catalytic convertors of exhaust gas in cars. They are characterized by a high thermal conductivity and mechanical robustness with a low pressure loss during alternating operation modes.
if the industry changes to soft housings that absorb energy in the same way as modern car bodies he says.
Car bodywork is designed with soft zones that absorb energy from collisions by crumpling. Our idea is to design transformer tanks in such a way that they expand
criminals have stolen a motor vehicle, which transported infected material. The fear is that this might cause a wider spread of the virus
and mechanics who keep cars trucks and bikes running with little or no access to spare parts.
and crutch tips or ferrules from old car tyres she said. While you have to admire the skill involved it's very time-consuming
The infrastructure isn't in place now for hydrogen to replace gasoline as a fuel for planes trains and automobiles.
Every time the field flips, the polarity of the bars reverses, drawing the magnetized droplets in a new, predetermined direction, like slot cars on a track.
and production of future vehicles and military gear to improve safety. Array"Whether you're serving our country in uniform, playing in a big game,
New epigenomic block for advanced cancer Array"If you think of late-stage cancer as a runaway car,
such as in electric vehicles. Another advantage of this approach, Chiang says, is that factories using the method can be scaled up by simply adding identical units.
advanced biofuels that can be used directly to fuel your cars,"added Lu, who is affiliated also with the Department of physics
or as a hyper-efficient seat warmer in a car. Although only flat mesh connected into a tube has been made so far,
Today, injection and extrusion molding shape hot liquids into everything from car parts to toys.
Considering that nearly one-third of every fuel tank is spent overcoming friction in automobiles, a material that can achieve superlubricity would greatly benefit industry and consumers alike.
The research, led by scientists at the Van Andel Research Institute in Michigan in collaboration with dozens of other scientists from around the globe,
a scientist at the Van Andel Research Institute in Michigan who led the experiment. The study notes that a wide range of drugs would likely be more effective
or cars being assembled in a factory daunting task if the thousands of images on one hard drive haven been labeled.)
Some people are conscientiously conserving water in their homes in little waysy not washing their cars
kicking off the robotic vehicle's clandestine fourth mission as well as the first flight of a tiny solar-sailing spacecraft.
But Air force officials have said that mission number four known as Orbital Test vehicle-4 (OTV-4) will concentrate less on the X-37b itself
"With the demonstrated success of the first three missions, we're able to shift our focus from initial checkouts of the vehicle to testing of experimental payloads."
saying the X-37b is simply testing out technologies for reusable vehicles and future spacecraft.
OTV-3 lifted off in December 2012, sending the vehicle that flew OTV-1 to space for 675 days record for a reusable space vehicle.
or the space plane that flew OTV-2."The program selects the orbital test vehicle for each activity based upon the experiment objectives,
The technology might also help keep communication lines open to other hypersonic vehicles, such as military planes and ballistic missiles.
When a vehicle travels at hypersonic speeds that is, five or more times the speed of sound an envelope of hot,
cutting off radio communications with anything outside the vehicle. Photos: US Military Tests Hypersonic Craft As NASA's Apollo 13 crisis revealed in 1970,
"When a re-entry vehicle is unable to be connected, the only thing you can do is pray for it,
For instance, scientists have suggested changing the shape of hypersonic vehicles, because sharp-nosed vehicles have thinner plasma sheaths than blunt-nosed ones.
But sometimes, blunt-nosed bodies are preferable because they can withstand heat better and slow down more quickly.
It does not rely on a particular shape of vehicle in order to work, nor does it consume additional energy
#DM Blade Supercar has 3d printed Chassis: The Arduino of Cars Last year we saw Local Motorsstrati, a compact car with a 3d printed body, seats, windshield and support structures.
Divergent Microfactories (DM) Blade prototype supercar looks much better and is apparently much more powerful than the Strati,
but DM pride and joy is what inside the car. The DM Blade has a 700hp four-cylinder engine
and weighs just 1400lb.,supposedly allowing it to go from 0 to 60mph in just 2. 2s.
But DM wants us to focus on another number. 3d Print says the Blade has/50 the factory capital costs of other manufactured cars.
More importantly, they reduce the manufacturing costs, skill requirements and environmental impacts of car manufacturing. The idea,
is to be the Arduino of cars n affordable and customizable platform for car manufacturers to use as the basis for their vehicles.
Czinger and other DM officials talk at length about their vision in this Oeilly interview. Here a stylized assembly of the Blade chassis,
But just like the Arduino, Raspberry Pi and other single-board computers, DM will measure its success by how many vehicles will be built
and a different ad is shown to the people waiting at the bus stopsays Ferdinand Saint-Julien CEO of Trilite Technologies.
#Chemists one step closer to new generation of electric car battery Lithium sulphur (Li-S) batteries can theoretically power an electric car three times further than current lithium-ion batteries for the same weight at much
#Vehicle body made from cotton hemp and wood Carbon and glass fibers reinforce synthetics so that they can be used for vehicle body construction.
But in this regard there is an abundance of potential found in natural fibers obtained from hemp cotton or wood.
Carmakers are increasingly counting on fiber reinforced synthetics. These fibers which are embedded into the synthetic matrix give the material its additional durability.
are ships like car and truck carriers, big ferries, container ships and LNG CARRIERS. Terje Lade forecasts that the freighter will set sail as soon as 2019.
Like a half-made car with extra horns and wheels tacked to one end, a truncated protein with an apparently random sequence of alanines and threonines looks strange,
even more than in cars and other gadgets, there is a direct penalty for adding more batterieshe drone becomes heavier.
This combination is a real winner considering that the battery is designed mostly for use in hybrid electric vehicles and energy storage for renewable energy sources.
Gary Van Berkel of ORNL is a co-author s
#Scientists successfully test immunogen a component for potential HIV vaccine Team of researchers from The Scripps Research Institute, INTERNATIONAL AIDS Vaccine Initiative and The Rockefeller University have shown successfully that an experimental vaccine candidate
such as in electric vehicles. Another advantage of this approach, Chiang says, is that factories using the method can be scaled up by simply adding identical units.
combines the lifting power of a helicopter with the looks and feel of a motorcycle.
who was involved not in the research. ombining synthetic genetic devices with phages as delivery vehicles allows a systematic approach to reprogram pathogenic bacteria for death,
explains principal investigator Dr. Olaf van Erve. Realization of spin-based Si NW devices requires efficient electrical spin injection and detection,
The NRL research team includes Dr. Olaf van Erve, Dr. Adam Friedman, Dr. Connie Li,
tires of the car. As with a big part of today automotive technological innovations, it is aimed at efficiency.
In the future such technology could help harvest otherwise wasted energy to squeeze just that extra bit of efficiency out of cars and other vehicles.
The generator harnesses energy from the changing electric potential between the pavement and a vehicle wheels.
and the ground consumes about 10%of a vehicle fueland, since that energy is wasted simply,
The segment should not cause any disadvantages to the handling and performance of the car.
team used a toy car with LED LIGHTS. Engineers attached an electrode to the tires of the toy car
and watched the LED LIGHTS as the car was rolling forward and they flashed on and off as electrodes came with contact with the surface.
The friction was strong enough for the electrodes to harvest enough energy to power the lights,
Engineers also determined that the amount of energy harnessed is directly related to the weight of a car
It means that different vehicles would waste different amounts of energy and different percentage of it could be saved using this method.
As cars are supposed to be greener and greener, everyone involved will have to look for new innovative ways to improve efficiency.
Today, injection and extrusion molding shape hot liquids into everything from car parts to toys.
ibers are everywhere from your underwear, pajamas, toothbrushes, tires, shoes, car seats, air filtration systems and even your clothes. bbey Liebman 0 created a dress using conductive cotton threads capable of charging an iphone.
#Research Team Improves Lithium air batteries For Electric car Industry A research team from Carnegie mellon University and the University of California,
Lithium air batteries are especially promising for the electric car industry, as they allow electric car battery packs to be smaller
said Cindy Van Dover, director of the Duke university Marine Laboratory. On its maiden voyage, the Syprid sampler was carried by the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry to a depth of more than 2,
150 meters where pressures exceed a bone-crushing 3150 psi and drove a precise sampling pattern for more than eight hours just above a natural methane seep.
but all plankton in the deep ocean, said Van Dover. e can now pick and choose where we sample,
and the yang of regulating GPCR function, said H. Eric Xu, from Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan,
and cars (see ilicon Chips That See Are Going to Make Your Smartphone Brilliant S
#Why the Time Seems Right for a Space-Based Internet Service providing Internet access from orbiting satellites concept that seemed to have died with the excesses of the dot-com boomas returned thanks to Spacex founder
The phones will be sold from trucks that function as mobile stores, as well as over the Internet. Just as third party apps were crucial to the popularity of smartphones,
Nvidia Demos a Car Computer Trained with Deep Learning Many cars now include cameras or other sensors that record the passing world and trigger intelligent behavior,
This week at the International Consumer electronics Show in Las vegas, Nvidia, a leading marking of computer graphics chips, unveiled a vehicle computer called the Drive PX that could help cars interpret
Nvidia already supplies chips to many car makers but engineers at those companies usually have to write software to collect
and other graphics for dashboard displays. t pretty cool to bring this level of powerful computation into cars,
at CES, the company showed off a luxury concept car called the Audi Prologue that includes the Drive PX.
At CES, Nvidia showed that its software can detect objects such as cars, people, bicycles and signs, even when they are hidden partly.
At a press event Sunday, Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia CEO, said the devices will provide ore computing horsepower inside a car than anything you have today. e
even off the back of a truck; it doesn require electricity or a sophisticated lab or an experienced technician, added Robert Garry, a virologist at Tulane University in New orleans,
Ayres added that having four test cells means that the company is able to work on several projects in parallel. lready we are placed to commence work work on the high-efficiency auxiliary power unit for use on buses and heavy-duty vehicles next week,
Meanwhile, Dearman zero-emission transport refrigeration system is extended currently in on-vehicle testing at MIRA, and will be commencing commercial on-road trials later this year.
and work on customising the transport refrigeration system for different vehicle types. Dearman is one of a number of small technology firms working with the Proving Factory,
French taxi drivers were protesting on Thursday at vehicles operated by drivers working for the Californian business,
though, pay nothing, using their own cars and just paying a proportion of their takings to the company for the rides they pick up.
In this brave new world, untapped capacity such as idle cars and rooms is made available for hire, increases efficiency and lowers the price of those goods and services.
On the other side of the Atlantic, a more modest, quieter challenger plans to take on the US electric car giant.
But researchers from Portsmouth University have found their structure is so biologically strong it could be copied to make cars, boats and planes.
and used in high-performance engineering applications such as Formula 1 racing cars, the hulls of boats and aircraft structures.
if a person driving a car is drunk in fact. The program though started as early as 2008,
A video posted on Youtube last Thursday displayed the technology via a test vehicle equipped with mock-up DADSS,
The technology functions in a way that it causes the cars to shut down if it finds that the drivers exceed the permissible blood alcohol levels.
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,
Hyundai thinks it has found the most seamless way yet to let drivers integrate their smartphones seamlessly into their cars.
Hyundai says it is the first automaker to launch Android Auto in a production car,
a service that will go initially into its new Sonata sedan. All that's needed to get it is a free software flash at a dealership.
the car's touchscreen, steering wheel controls or voice.""Android Auto aligns with Hyundai's core interior design principles of safety,
but it was duplicative of a key function that the car was already able to perform through its own navigation system.
#New car tech could stop drunken drivers If you're drunk, your car may soon be able to stop you from driving.
A new generation of technology is taking shape around systems that prevent cars from operating
if the driver is drunk. Researchers say the new technology is so promising that they compare it to the advent of the seat belt in terms of its potential."
or another designated surface in the car. Alcohol levels would be measured under the skin's surface on a touchpad with an infrared light scanner.
or wait around in order to start their car. The new technology draws support from a number of driving safety advocates, including Mothers Against Drunk Driving."
"This car is going to be the cure, "says Colleen Sheehey-Church, MADD's president who lost her own son to a drunken driver."
The technology is scheduled to be car-ready in the next five to eight years, according to Zaouk.
It's yet to be seen how much it could add to the price of a new car,
As of now, experts don't envision the system as required equipment in all new cars. Rather
which will be placed in the car. The sensors will act as a tracking system to measure the ratio of carbon dioxide molecules to ethanol molecules produced by the driver.
If the ratio hits a certain threshold of ethanol to carbon, the car won't start.
If the levels register as 0. 08%or more, the car won't start. The machine will only be setup to analyze ethanol levels,
mimicking a vehicle start button. Manufacturers are also considering ways for the car to detect
when someone else other than the driver attempts to start the car, such as creating a touch-ID system programmed to the driver's fingerprints on the touchpad.
Engineers have proposed also a circuit method, forcing the driver to press the button while sitting in the driver's seat."
and making them smaller, making them work in a vehicle environment, "Zaouk says.""It has to be reliable day in and day out for the life of the vehicle."
"These new systems could take the place of current ignition interlock systems, often ordered by courts after drunken-driving convictions.
These systems require drivers to blow air into a device plugged into the car's ignition, measuring alcohol levels in a similar fashion as a breathalyzer.
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