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Team shows crowdsourced data from smartphones in cars can help monitor structural integrity of bridges

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In the past decade, researchers predicted that cheap ubiquitous mobile sensors would revolutionize infrastructure maintenance; yet extracting useful information in the field with sufficient precision remains challenging. Monitoring and managing the structural health of bridges requires expensive specialized sensor networks.

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Car And Driver Not Happy With Cost Of Tesla Model 3 Maintenance

InsideEVs

The publication has been running a Model 3 for nearly 40,000 miles, but it hasn’t found the vehicle as cheap to maintain as expected.

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Researchers split seawater without pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen

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University of Adelaide’s Professor Shizhang Qiao, co-corresponding author, said that the researchers used a non-precious and cheap catalyst in a commercial electrolyzer. A flow-type natural seawater electrolyser with Lewis acid-modified electrodes (Cr 2 O 3 –CoO x ) exhibits the industrially required current density of 1.0 A cm V and 60 °C.

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QOTD: What Have Your Maintenance Costs Been Like?

The Truth About Cars

It seems obvious that most people would have an experience close to what CR found, but maybe one you found your Lexus to be both extremely reliable and also somehow cheap to fix when it does break? Or have you, for whatever reason, experienced the opposite. Or something. Anyway, what have you seen out there in the world? Sound off below.

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CA Tesla Owner Calculates That UberX Is Cheaper Than Electric Car

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Cheap electricity and reduced maintenance needs make most electric cars cheaper to operate per mile than internal-combustion models, but perhaps that doesn''t take things far enough. There seems be an even better way to save money on transportation in some areas: Get rid of the car entirely.

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Volvo Car Group tests road-embedded magnets for accurate positioning of self-driving cars

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Magnets could facilitate accuracy of winter road maintenance, which in turn could prevent damage to snow-covered objects, such as barriers and signs, near the road edge. The research program was designed to evaluate crucial issues, such as detection range, reliability, durability, cost and the impact on road maintenance.

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Simple, Cheap and Portable: A Filter-free Desalination System for a Thirsty World

Cars That Think

Unlike existing portable desalination systems based on reverse osmosis, the MIT team’s prototype does not need any high-pressure pumping or maintenance by technicians. The portable device does not require any replacement filters, which greatly reduces the long-term maintenance requirements.

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