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  1. The entire Michigan Solar Car race crew with its 2023 vehicle, Astrum, on the University of Michigan's North Campus in Ann Arbor, MI.

    ‘Astrum’ solar car shoots for the stars by pushing energy efficiency

  2. Map of percentage change in transportation energy burden from current on-road vehicle stock to a new battery-electric vehicle. Negative percentages indicate energy cost savings for EVs compared to gasoline powered vehicles. Areas with the greatest savings, shown in green, include the West Coast states and parts of the East and South. Transportation energy burden is the percentage of household income spent on fueling with gasoline or charging with electricity. Adapted from Vega-Perkins et al. in Environmental Research Letters, January 2023.

    EV transition will benefit most US vehicle owners, but lowest-income Americans could get left behind

  3. Professor Pingsha Dong, the Robert F. Beck Collegiate Professor of Engineering, surrounded by Abdul Khan, left, and Yuning Zhang, both PhD students in naval architecture and marine engineering, at the Herbert H. Dow Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, on Friday, November 18, 2022.   Their research involves welding plastic to metal in a newly discovered technique where a thin strip of a nylon-6 (PA6) film provides the oxygen needed to force the formation of a nice, connected interface between the metal and plastic.   Image credit: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

    Plastic to metal, steel to aluminum—the future of welding and lightweight vehicles

  4. An open-source connected and automated research vehicle parked on the roundabout at the Mcity Test Facility, the world’s first purpose-built proving ground for testing the performance and safety of connected and automated vehicles and technologies under controlled and realistic conditions. Image credit: Joseph Xu/Michigan Engineering

    $5M to enable remote, next-generation autonomous vehicle testing at Mcity

  5. Promising MOFs were identified computationally and experimentally demonstrate remarkable methane uptake that outperforms known benchmarks both volumetrically and gravimetrically. Advanced set of interatomic potentials that explicitly accounts for the presence of coordinatively unsaturated sites (CUS) in MOFs were used to identify the high-capacity MOFs that were previously overlooked due to the limitation of the general interatomic potentials. Image credit: Angewandte Chemie

    Natural gas could bridge gap from gasoline to electric vehicles, thanks to metal-organic frameworks

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    Climate change and Michigan: Challenges and opportunities

  7. Factory chimney smoke trail at sunset.

    Researchers from U-M, MSU, OU team up to develop wearable pollution-measuring technology

  8. Car interior with digital interface on blurry bokeh background. Image credit: iStock

    U-M’s DARPA project aims to protect cars, trucks, spacecraft from hackers

  9. It's hard to predict the properties of a glass from its composition because glasses are disordered structures, as seen in this atom-level simulation. A new machine learning model can predict the density and stiffness of glasses. This information can be used to design better reinforcing fibers for strong and lightweight composite materials in automobiles and wind turbines. Image credit: Qi Group

    Designing lightweight glass for efficient cars, wind turbines

  10. U-M breaks ground on Ford Robotics Building

    U-M breaks ground on Ford Robotics Building

  11. New way to test self-driving cars could cut 99.9 percent of validation costs

    New way to test self-driving cars could cut 99.9 percent of validation costs

  12. Vehicle ownership on the rise again

    Vehicle ownership on the rise again

  13. Robot, you can drive my car: Majority prefer driverless technology

    Robot, you can drive my car: Majority prefer driverless technology

  14. U-M will test 3D-printed, autonomous "SmartCarts"

    U-M will test 3D-printed, autonomous ‘SmartCarts’

  15. Bill Lovejoy

    Does Rust Belt manufacturing have a future?

  16. Self-driving cars: Lower-cost navigation system developed

    Self-driving cars: Lower-cost navigation system developed

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    U-M Experts available to discuss developments in GM recall

  18. M planet blue: the sustainable difference

    U-M awarded new center grant to improve transportation safety

  19. Calling all cars: U-M takes center stage in safe transportation

    Calling all cars: U-M takes center stage in safe transportation

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    Robotics Day: Sen. Levin, demos, and a talk on self-driving cars