Stories on Transportation Technology

  1. Concept illustration of an electric vehicle parked in front of a government building. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    Electric, autonomous vehicles offer promise, but broad-based benefits elusive without public role

  2. The Michigan solar car team stands behind their yellow car, Astrum, at the ceremonial finish line in Adelaide, Australia. Tall buildings are visible in the background, and a red banner reads "Adelaide Australia" over the. The entire team is wearing maize and blue and are holding up the American flag.

    U-M solar car places fourth in global competition

  3. Concept illustration of an autonomous vehicle in a city. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    Long-term benefits outweigh autonomous vehicle risks

  4. wo women and a man stand in front a building sided in gray corrugated metal, with the man pointing at the "PEROTJAIN TECHLAB at Mcity" logo on the white sectional garage door.

    U-M’s Perot Jain TechLab program enables entrepreneurial experience for technical students

  5. An experimental prototype of the Battery Sleuth authenticator device installed in a vehicle. Image credit: Kang Shin

    A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves

  6. 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

  7. Concept illustration of electric vehicles at a charging station. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    Full electrification of Uber and Lyft vehicles would provide only modest benefits to society, study shows

  8. Aerial view of an Ann Arbor intersection. Image courtesy: Michigan Engineering

    $9.8M to boost connected vehicle research at U-M, expand Ann Arbor deployment

  9. Roundabout at State Street and Ellsworth Road in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Image courtesy: UMTRI

    World’s first realistic simulated driving environment based on ‘crash-prone’ Michigan intersection

  10. Engineering student Chloe Acosta plugs in an EV on the University of Michigan's North Campus. Acosta is also powertrain director on the MRacing team, which recently switched to an electric powertrain. Image credit: Marcin Szczepanski, Michigan Engineering

    $130M Electric Vehicle Center launches at U-Michigan

  11. Concept illustration showing children on upgraded vs. not upgraded bus. Image credit: Emma Bumstead, Michigan Creative

    Upgraded school buses linked to increased student attendance

  12. From left, Sean Shen, a research engineer at UMTRI, Xintao Yan and Haowei Sun, both civil engineering PhD students, prepare to take out one of the autonomous vehicles for a test run at Mcity on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Wednesday, January 18, 2023. Image credit: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

    Simulated terrible drivers cut the time and cost of AV testing by a factor of one thousand

  13. Construction underway at the Ford Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan on Friday, January 21, 2022. The new Michigander EV Scholars Program will help expand the workforce to meet the growing demand for electric vehicles. Image credit: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering

    U-M joins state of Michigan in drive to recruit talent for EV and mobility jobs

  14. A specially equipped Lincoln MKZ, based at Mcity, is an open-source connected and automated research vehicle available to U-M faculty and students, startups and others to help accelerate innovation. Image credit: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering

    $15 million for connected and automated transportation, renewing U-M-led Midwest hub

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. Conceptual illustration of an H2@Scale (Hydrogen at Scale) energy system.

    ‘Hydrogen road map’: The lightest element can play a heavy-duty role in Michigan’s clean-energy transition

  18. Icon illustration of a person chasing a bus. Image adapted from U-M Poverty Solutions infographic

    U-M study finds 1 in 4 four adults experience transportation insecurity

  19. 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

  20. $11M DOE center for next-gen battery technology