This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Researchers have created a new lithium-ion battery design that allows for better flow of electrons through its anode, dramatically improving the battery’s capacity and halving the amount of time it takes to charge. The advancement is described in a… Continue reading New Anodes Help Lithium-ion Batteries Charge Faster
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Big Players, Bigger Bets on eVTOLs and Air Taxis
The aviation business is nothing new for Ohio. The state is a major supplier for Airbus and Boeing and is home to around 150 airports. Back in 2003, the House even passed a resolution acknowledging the role of Dayton in America’s aviation history—noting that the Wright brothers were from the city. But now, Ohio is… Continue reading Big Players, Bigger Bets on eVTOLs and Air Taxis
A Former Pilot On Why Autonomous Vehicles Are So Risky
In October 2021, Missy Cummings left her engineering professorship at Duke University to join the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) in a temporary position as a senior safety advisor. It wasn’t long before Elon Musk tweeted an attack: “Objectively, her track record is extremely biased against Tesla.” He was referring to Cummings’s criticism of… Continue reading A Former Pilot On Why Autonomous Vehicles Are So Risky
Advancing Grids With Highway Levitation
Superconductors have long promised advanced power grids and transportation networks. However, threats of high costs have long held back these dreams. Now a new study argues one way to make such projects a reality is to combine them into a unified system, one that could both help cars and trucks zip around faster than a… Continue reading Advancing Grids With Highway Levitation
Emulation: The Future of EV Design
Design and test engineers use emulation technology to streamline design verification cycles and reduce the cost of testing for electric vehicles. Automotive manufacturers and suppliers leverage this technology to improve EV batteries, powertrains, and interoperability between EVs and charging stations. Complete the form below to download the white paper and learn more about this powerful… Continue reading Emulation: The Future of EV Design
The Age of Silicon Is Here…for Batteries
Since lithium-ion batteries’ commercial debut three decades ago, this portable and high-density (and Nobel Prize–winning) energy storage technology has revolutionized the fields of consumer electronics, electric vehicles, and large-scale energy storage. And yet even for the technology’s vast advancements—a staggering thirtyfold drop in price between 1991 and 2018, for instance—the biggest improvements have taken place… Continue reading The Age of Silicon Is Here…for Batteries
Electrifying Standards: U.S. Joins EV Race to Zero
Last month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed a historic set of vehicle tailpipe emissions standards, aimed at making two-thirds of all passenger cars zero-emissions by 2032, along with 46 percent of medium-duty trucks (such as delivery vans) and 25 percent of heavy-duty trucks such as 18-wheelers. The proposed standards, which would phase in over… Continue reading Electrifying Standards: U.S. Joins EV Race to Zero
Little Robots Learn to Drive Fast in the Real World
Without a lifetime of experience to build on like humans have (and totally take for granted), robots that want to learn a new skill often have to start from scratch. Reinforcement learning is a technique that lets robots learn new skills through trial and error, but especially in the case of learning end-to-end vision based… Continue reading Little Robots Learn to Drive Fast in the Real World
“Liquid” Neural Network Adapts on the Go
In the realm of artificial intelligence, bigger is supposed to be better. Neural networks with billions of parameters power everyday AI-based tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E, and each new large language model (LLM) edges out its predecessors in size and complexity. Meanwhile, at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), a group of researchers… Continue reading “Liquid” Neural Network Adapts on the Go
Hyundai Making (Tesla) Killer EVs on the QT
In the booming business of electric cars, you expect innovation and ingenious features to hail from luxury land: Lucid, Rivian, Porsche, or Tesla. Driving the new Hyundai Ioniq 6 sedan highlights the rise of an underdog that was almost wholly unforeseen: South Korea’s Hyundai Motors, and its Kia and luxury Genesis brands, are cranking out… Continue reading Hyundai Making (Tesla) Killer EVs on the QT