The Secret to Why a Tesla Costs So Much

The Trump administration recently scaled back fuel efficiency standards for automobiles, which are meant to reduce gasoline consumption and speed the shift to electric vehicles. Economists have disputed the calculations behind this decision, including Christopher Knittel (MIT Sloan), who said, “If you do the analysis right, we found that revoking these standards does not save consumers money.”

MITEI Energy Scholar Santosh Singh studied subsurface species in metals to enable the design of efficient catalytic materials for energy production.