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Research on how people adopt new technologies suggests the transition is now well under way.
Today, as in the past, pro-car sentiment is a backlash against nascent environmental protest.
People aren’t the only ones harmed by heat waves. The hotter it gets, the harder it is for machines to keep their cool.
Both major parties are promising major road projects this election. Meanwhile, the potential for passenger and freight rail to help meet the country’s climate goals seems stuck at the station.
Thieves are trading their pry bars for laptops and wireless devices to steal cars that nowadays rely on remotes and computer networks.
The connected vehicles of the future could make our cars and data more vulnerable to theft and malicious attack.
Cars are getting bigger on US roads, and that’s increasing pedestrian and cyclist deaths. A transport scholar identifies community-level strategies for making streets safer.
Internal combustion engine cars still dominate global sales – it could be to do with the emotive influence they hold over drivers.
Imagine an NBA game played outdoors in August, with no substitutions and players wearing snowsuits, gloves and ski masks. Race car drivers routinely compete under similar conditions.
Electric vehicles, in contrast to fuel-powered vehicles, have more mileage in city driving than highway driving. This is because they convert kinetic energy back to electric.
The new techniques go far beyond hacking your car’s key fob system.
The seemingly chaotic nature of the Fast Saga’s development is central to the Furious-verse’s appeal.
Faced with a Germany-led coalition seeking to ban internal-combustion-engine car sales from 2035, the EU needs to stay firm on its core economic principles.
Inflating your cars’ tyres properly isn’t just good for your bank account - it can minimise your environmental footprint too.
Exploding cars are a staple feature of the Fast & Furious films. Entertaining, yes. But realistic - not so much.
Smoother and quieter, the car of the future comes with one nauseating hitch.
Older imported cars pose risks to motorists and spew pollution. Some countries, including Ghana, are taking steps to limit the harms of this piece of the vehicle life cycle.
Under a normal lease, you enter an agreement with a leasing company. A novated lease includes another party in the agreement – your employer.
Australia’s transition to electric vehicles has been much slower than in many other developed nations. But the country is actually well placed to catch up fast.
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Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Lecturer and Co-Director, Electric Vehicle Centre of Excellence (EVCE), Cardiff University
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Honorary Professor of Transport Studies, UCL
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Product Design, Nottingham Trent University
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Lecturer, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor of Human Factors, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Business Economics, University of Birmingham
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Senior Research Fellow in Urbanism, University of Sydney
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Business and Sustainability, Cardiff University
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Professor of Environmental Design, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Future Urban Mobility, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Research Fellow in Human Factors & Sociotechnical Systems, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Senior Lecturer in Transport, Monash University
