Automobiles

Automotive computers controlling brakes, steering and door locks are vulnerable to tampering under certain conditions. But are random roadside cyber attacks a real threat?

Military “Transformer” vehicles move closer to takeoff

Dark clouds of soot and gases spewed by tractors, bulldozers and backhoes are becoming a thing of the past under new federal standards that have forced cleaner diesel engines this year

Has the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy failed in its mission to create alternative energy breakthroughs? 

Physics students at the University of Leicester in the U.K. worked out the principles for keeping a speeding race car in control on a vertical curved wall. Wayt Gibbs reports

 

If test plants succeed, waste methane could fuel vehicles—but the conversion may not offer much environmental benefit

CAFE standards are working, at least according to a research note from the University of Michigan. The graph below shows the average sales-weighted MPGs by month and model year.

by Tali Trigg Japan's Sumitomo Corporation buys used EV batteries for use in large-scale energy storage The value proposition of electric vehicles (EVs) goes beyond switching an engine block for a battery.

New standards that reduce sulfur in gasoline will also curb the soot that contributes to climate change and lung disease

The standards will help avoid up to 2,000 premature deaths per year and 50,000 cases of respiratory ailments in children while adding only an average of 1 cent per gallon to the cost of gasoline, the EPA says