By JAMES DETAR
INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
Sales of Ford and General Motors cars in Europe weakened in November despite a rise in overall number of vehicles sold there, losing market share to Volkswagen.
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Jaguar unveils ghostly ‘see-through pillar’ technology
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has unveiled two safety innovations that it hopes will quite literally change the way we see things in the future.
Firstly, its “360 Virtual Urban Windscreen” incorporates ‘transparent’ A-pillars, giving improved visibility by way of much reduced blind spots at the edges of the windscreen.
EIA: price of fuel tends to have little effect on travel demand
| The US average retail price per gallon of regular motor gasoline has fallen 28% from its 2014 peak of $3.70 per gallon on June 23, to $2.68 per gallon on December 8, with no noticeable uptick in travel. Source: EIA. |
The 28% drop in the US average retail price of gasoline since 23 June may not have much effect on automobile travel, and in turn, gasoline consumption, according to an analysis by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Gasoline is a relatively inelastic product—i.e., changes in prices have little influence on demand—and has become more so over the past few decades.
Chrysler agrees to expand air bag recall
By TOM KRISHER
Chrysler is bowing to demands from U.S. safety regulators and will add about 179,000 vehicles to a recall for air bags that could explode with too much force.
New high-entropy alloy is light as aluminum, stronger than titanium alloys
| Ashby plot of strength vs. density for engineering materials. (Yield strength for metals and polymers, tear strength for elastomers, compressive strength for ceramics, and tensile strength for composites.) The low-density HEA is indicated with the star. Youssef et al. |
Researchers from North Carolina State University and Qatar University have developed a new high-entropy alloy that has a higher strength-to-weight ratio that they say is unmatched by any other metallic material.
