A schematic illustrating how thephotothermocatalytic reactor with an integrated selective solar absorber works. The reactor is shown from the side. Credit: Device (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.device.2024.100604 […]
Category: Automotive
Hydrogen-powered boats offer climate-friendly alternative to road transport
Autonomous-driving hydrogen-powered boat (AHB) design. Credit: Communications Engineering (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s44172-025-00388-4 Cargo transport is responsible for an enormous carbon footprint. Between 2010 and 2018, the […]
Engineers take apart batteries from Tesla and China’s leading EV manufacturer to see what’s inside
Graphic rendition of the 4680 Tesla Cell (silver cell in the picture) and BYD Blade Cell (blue cell in the picture), including cross sections of […]
Electric vehicles could travel farther on a single charge thanks to lithium-sulfur batteries with added platinum
Close-up of one of the battery cells created in El-Zahab’s lab. Credit: Margi Rentis/FIU More electric vehicles are on the road than ever before. But […]
Self-driving cars learn to share road knowledge through digital word-of-mouth
Manhattan Mobility Model Map. The dots represent the intersections while the edges between nodes represent road in Manhattan. Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2408.14001 An NYU […]
Engineers show industrial potential of diamond quantum sensors for EV battery monitoring
Heteroepitaxial diamond growth on a non-diamond substrate enables industrial-scale production of diamond quantum sensors for EV battery monitoring. Credit: Science Tokyo Electric vehicles (EVs) are […]
AI on aircraft can reduce risk of mid-air stalls and sudden drops, study shows
The deep reinforcement learning agent is able to rediscover large-scale streamwise vortices strategy on its own for this high-Reynolds-number 3D flow, while also learning to […]
Prototype turns car and helicopter exhaust into thermoelectric energy
Researchers design and test a waste-heat recovery system, illustrated here, that attaches to a car tailpipe and converts heat from exhaust into energy. The fanned […]
Engineers model grid demand challenges
An electric semi-truck charges while driving on a test dynamic wireless power transfer (DWPT) roadway located at Utah State University. Credit: ASPIRE Running out of […]
A step toward sustainable net-zero roads
Examples of biobased spore microcapsules (left) and waste-based capsules (right) for self-healing asphalt. In the center, is a sample of asphalt mixture. Credit: Swansea University […]