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The Electrofuels That Reduce Amazon’s Fleet Emissions
Amazon has a goal of having 50% of its shipments being made net-zero carbon by 2030. In 2021, more than 100 million packages were delivered to customers with zero-emissions...
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Sustainability Shines in Asahi Kasei Electric Shuttle Concept
Asahi Kasei’s latest concept vehicle is a rolling showcase of the supplier’s materials and electronics innovations, with a strong focus on sustainability. Dubbed the...
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May Mobility Starts ADA-Compliant AV Transit for Rural Area
Automated-driving system developer May Mobility confirmed in late September that it launched what it called the first public-transit project to deploy American Disability Act...
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Teaching Drones How to Navigate Real-World Weather
For drones to autonomously perform necessary but quotidian tasks, they must be able to adapt to wind conditions in real time.
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Enhancing Solar Option During Power Outages
Engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have designed a novel building-solar controller that optimizes solar energy with smart technology to keep microgrids operating for up to five days.
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SAE International Extends Call for Abstracts, Seeks Submissions for AeroTech Conference
Engineering Events staff at SAE International in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, have extended the call for abstracts through September 21 for the...
NASA Spinoff Manufacturing & Prototyping
Robust Bus Systems for CubeSats
NASA resources helped mature technologies to make CubeSats more capable, so everyone can use them.
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EV, Give Me Heat!
Cabin heating and cooling, and their negative impact on vehicle efficiency and range, are among the challenges still to be solved in battery-electric vehicles. For drivers and passengers, interior comfort — being...
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5 Ws of Floating Sensors
Wireless sensors inspired by Dandelions could be used to monitor climate change.
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SAE WCX 2022: The Road to Zero Emissions Has Many Lanes
Emissions are currently one of the hottest macro topics across the automotive industry. Governments around the world are ramping up regulations over the coming decades to reduce...
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Progressive Band Selection for Hyperspectral Images
This system enables fast analysis of hyperspectral images in disaster response or target detection scenarios.
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Products of Tomorrow
Breath-regulating garments, humidity sensors, thin-film antennas, and more.
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NASA Software Helps Weather Forecasting Around the Globe
Satellite scheduling software helps consolidate data acquisition and improve weather forecasting.
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Ultraviolet Detector
Teledyne e2v has been contracted by the European Space Agency (ESA) to enhance its previously supplied CCD69 detector.
Green Design & Manufacturing
Environmentally Friendly Fire Suppressant
The fire suppressant, when combined with water, cuts the amount of time and water needed to extinguish peat fires.
Articles Photonics/Optics
Thermal Imaging — Making Hidden Details Visible
When even your iPhone can easily become a thermal imager, today's top cameras offer better sensitivity and measurement accuracy.
NASA Spinoff Electronics & Computers
Keeping Warmer in the Great Outdoors
A long-time apparel insulator develops its own takes on popular NASA spinoff material.
Facility Focus Energy
Facility Focus: Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering
Today, Carnegie Mellon’s College of Engineering performs research in robotics, cyberphysical systems, artificial intelligence, biomedicine, energy, and other topics.
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Ultra-High Performance Flexible Ultraviolet Sensors for Use in Wearables
To enable the development of wearable devices that possess advanced ultraviolet (UV) detection functions, scientists have created a new type of light sensor that is both flexible and highly sensitive.
Briefs Test & Measurement
Coastal Lidar and Radar Imaging System (CLARIS) Lidar Data Report
The Army analyzed shoreline change, dune volume, beach volume, beach slope, and cumulative elevation change along the northern Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Satellite Paves the Way for Improved Storm Tracking
Microwave radiometers on current satellites are about the size of a washing machine. On TROPICS’ small satellites, the radiometers are about the size of a coffee mug.
News Test & Measurement
Arctic Autonomy
In what is billed as “the most extensive pilot [program] in challenging weather conditions, ever,” a trio of Nordic companies is prepping an autonomous public-transport service in Bodø, a Norwegian city north of the...
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Industry Invited to Participate in AeroTech Aerospace and Defense Technical Program
SAE International is inviting global participation in its AeroTech® aerospace and defense technology conference and exhibition, which is for the first...
Briefs Test & Measurement
High-Altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for Monitoring Meteorological Parameters
The system uses infrasonic acoustics for weather monitoring and for drone or UAV activity.
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Flywheel Energy Storage Continues to Advance Green Initiatives
Flywheels offer an environmentally and financially sound choice for protecting critical operations.
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Solving the EV Range Vs. HVAC Dilemma
The loss in range from climate control operation on battery electric vehicles (BEV) has become a source of concern among automakers as many of them begin the transition from internal combustion...
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Preventing Heat-Induced Image Warping in Machine Vision Line Scan Cameras
A heat source near the optical path can introduce image warping that locally shifts the position of the image content. Learn how to fix the flaw.
Articles Power
Pumping EV Heat
The Automotive Career Development Center (ACDC) that I founded over 20 years ago provides training and tech support to the world’s independent electric-vehicle (EV and hybrid) technicians, who will be asked to fix and...
The Navigator Unmanned Systems
The Navigator: Mapping the Way to Safe Automated Driving
When it comes to automated driving systems (ADS), Tesla CEO Elon Musk often runs counter to the consensus of almost everyone else in the sector. His disdain for lidar sensing is...
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