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Singapore Business District Begin Testing Self-Driving Ride-Hailing Service

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SINGAPORE—Singapore became the first country in the world to launch a self-driving taxi service on Thursday. Singapore’s nuTonomy, founded by two researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said Thursday it began testing a free taxi-hailing service in a small business district in Singapore called one-north, a campus-like space dominated by tech firms and biotechnology companies. The trial was given

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Ford and MIT’s Electric Shuttle Experiment

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Ford Motor is unleashing electric vehicles onto the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus. Students and faculty will be able hail these cars via mobile app in order to shuttle them to and from class. It sounds a lot like Uber and Lyft. But that’s not exactly what Ford is aiming for—at least not initially. The electric shuttles, which will be

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Lithium-oxygen Battery Promises Lighter Electric Cars

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Lithium-air batteries are supposed to lead to lighter, longer-ranged electric cars thanks to their high power-to-weight output, but they have some show-stopping flaws: they not only degrade rapidly, but waste a lot of energy input as heat. Neither is exactly ideal in a vehicle that’s expected to last you several years and charge quickly. Scientists at MIT, Argonne National Laboratory

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