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• A 2022 Ford F-150 requires 9.4 and 12.1 litres per 100 km for highway and city driving, respectively.
• Traditional fuel-powered automobiles, powered by the internal combustion engines, give higher mileage on a highway compared to city roads.
• Second, unlike highway driving, city driving involves more frequent acceleration and braking; every time a fuel-powered automobile accelerates, it consumes more energy than it would consume to maintain speed.
• All these factors result in higher gas mileage on highway driving compared to city driving.

Power usage

• And will that power requirement be higher (or lower) to drive in the city?
• It could be expected that a BEV would require less power to drive on a highway compared to city.
• When the BEV operates at high power, only a certain portion of the full energy capacity is available for driving.

Battery testing

• We took a cylindrical battery cell like the ones used to make battery packs for BEVs and computed its energy at different discharge currents.
• First, we fully charged the battery and then discharged it at a certain power until it was fully depleted.
• When we computed the total energy discharged by the battery at each experiment, we found that the lower the current, the higher the discharge energy capacity.
• The battery management system is very important, and in some BEVs, it may be programmed to prevent the driver from fully depleting the battery pack so that long-term health can be maintained.

Informed consumers

• On average, the tested BEVs required lower power to drive 100 kilometres in city roads compared to highways, confirming our explanation.
• Our findings suggest that those considering an electric vehicle would find it useful if power consumption guides included this information.

• PLANO, Texas, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) today announced, effective July 1, 2023, Shinichi Yasui, executive vice president, Toyota Motor North America, Research & Development, will be appointed Chief Project Leader, Hydrogen Factory at Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC).
• A 35-year Toyota veteran, Yasui has been a member of Toyota's North American Executive Committee since 2017, leading the company's R&D operations in the region.
• In 2016, he was appointed executive general manager of product planning at TMC's Mid-Size Vehicle Company before becoming executive vice president at TMNA.
• Yasui holds a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Meiji University in Tokyo and an Executive MBA from the University of Michigan.

• ARLINGTON, Va., May 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Most small cars don’t provide good protection for rear-seat passengers, the latest crash test ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety show.
• “These results highlight one of the key reasons that we updated our moderate overlap front crash test,” said IIHS President David Harkey.
• IIHS launched the updated moderate overlap front test last year after research showed that in newer vehicles the risk of a fatal injury is now higher for belted occupants in the rear than for those in front.
• To encourage manufacturers to improve rear-seat protection, the updated test adds a dummy in the back seat behind the driver.

• NEW YORK, March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Standard Motor Products, Inc. (SMP) continues to expand its line of ABS Speed Sensors for import and domestic vehicles.
• It is widely known that the quality and performance of ABS sensors affect how long it takes a vehicle to stop, but with technology evolving, ABS sensors are being asked to do more.
• Standard® offers more than 2,600 ABS Sensors fitting import and domestic vehicles.
• All Standard® ABS Sensors are listed in the catalog found at StandardBrand.com , and in electronic catalog providers.