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Self‑driving cars struggle to see at night or in fog – but imitating the human brain can make them safe

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Pablo Hernández Cámara, Universitat de València Picture this: you’re driving on a mountain road, when you suddenly hit a thick patch of fog. You respond...

Electric vehicles pass tipping point, breaking the link with oil prices

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Viet Nguyen-Tien, London School of Economics and Political Science; Gavin D. J. Harper, University of Birmingham, and Robert Elliott, University of Birmingham When the Strait...

A world‑first quantum battery charges faster when it gets bigger – but it’s tiny and only lasts nanoseconds

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James Quach, CSIRO You’re late for an important appointment. Just as you are leaving your house, you realise your phone is flat. Imagine you could charge...

Petrol prices too high? Here’s how quickly an EV could save you money

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Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology Petrol prices began rising even before the conflict in Iran drove oil prices higher. Australia imports around 80% of...

‘Blood cobalt’ is disappearing from batteries – and cheaper, cleaner batteries are arriving

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Neeraj Sharma, UNSW Sydney You might have heard the common claim that electric cars aren’t really green – that their lithium-ion batteries rely on “blood”...

America is falling behind in the global EV race – that’s going to cost the US auto industry

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Hengrui Liu, Tufts University and Kelly Sims Gallagher, Tufts University At the 2026 Detroit Auto Show, the spotlight quietly shifted. Electric vehicles, once framed as...

The next generation of driverless cars will have to think about what’s on the road, not just see it

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Daniel Zhou Hao, University of Leicester Autonomous vehicles have made remarkable progress over the past decade. Driverless cars and buses that once struggled to stay...

Yes, those big touchscreens in cars are dangerous and buttons are coming back

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Milad Haghani, The University of Melbourne In recent years, the way drivers interact with cars has fundamentally changed. Physical buttons have gradually disappeared from dashboards...

What will 2026 look like for the UK’s electric vehicle market?

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Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada, Kingston University and Mili Shrivastava, Bournemouth University In the UK, as in many other countries, the shift towards electric vehicles (EVs) has...

Two-way electric vehicle charging at scale could stop renewable energy being wasted – here’s how it works

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Vahid Vahidinasab, University of Salford The amount of renewable energy produced around the world is increasingly exceeding demand – particularly from wind and solar sources....
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