Category: Research
Wowza — NYC Congestion Pricing Cut Pollution 22% In Just 6 Months!
It took years, but New York City (NYC) finally implemented congestion pricing on January 5, 2025. (That’s 22 years after London first implemented it.) Aimed at cutting pollution in the city, would it work? Yes, it would! Paul Day of Air Quality News shares that a Cornell University study has … [continued]
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From Models to Money: Reflections on a Year of Practical Decarbonization
Before diving into a reflection on the year, it feels important to start with gratitude. None of this work happens in isolation. Over the past year, an extraordinary number of people took the time to share their expertise, challenge my assumptions, correct my mistakes, and patiently help me understand subjects … [continued]
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What Falling Sales? BEVs Jump 37% YoY in November in Europe!
BEVs reach 24% market share! EVs are picking up in Europe, with some 370,000 plugin vehicles being registered in Europe in November, 258,000 of them being BEVs. Overall, plugin vehicles were up 36% YoY. Expect December 2025 to establish a new record score, maybe even above the 425,000 unit mark. … [continued]
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Two Charts, One Grid: Clean Electricity Is Getting Cheaper But Feels More Expensive
The argument begins with a pair of charts that appear to contradict each other while describing the same reality. One plots nominal residential electricity prices against carbon intensity for the ten largest electricity producing countries in 2015 and 2024. The other uses the same data but adjusts prices for inflation. … [continued]
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XPENG–Peking University Collaborative Research Accepted By AAAI 2026: Introducing A Novel Visual Token Pruning Framework For Autonomous Driving
XPENG-PKU Research Breakthrough: XPENG, in collaboration with Peking University, has developed FastDriveVLA—a novel visual token pruning framework that enables autonomous driving AI to “drive like a human” by focusing only on essential information, achieving a 7.5x reduction in computational load. Top-Tier AI Recognition: The research has been accepted by AAAI 2026, one of the … [continued]
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