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2016 Pentastar V6 Adds New VVT, Cooled EGR
When the former Chrysler Corp. introduced the Pentastar 3.6-L gasoline V6 in the 2011 model year, it was engineered to replace seven incumbent V6 engines, and along with 3.0-L (for China) and 3.2-L...
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Driving EVs toward Lower Cost
Market penetration of electric vehicles has been limited by two significant constraints: driving range and purchase cost. These two factors are in fundamental opposition, because the most costly part of a...
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Seeking Ways to Make Better Computer Crashes
Although dramatic improvements in models and simulations have made them the primary means for determining the crashworthiness of vehicles, developers are pursuing many avenues to make virtual...
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Evaluating Aluminum Bonds
Adhesive bonding technology has gained ever-increasing significance in the automotive industry, especially with the growing use of aluminum (Al) alloy body structures. The variability in thicknesses of the metal...
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Leading the Attack on Engine Pumping Losses
Powertrain engineers talk about the advantage of having more “knobs to turn” — technologies that work synergistically to reduce fuel consumption and help increase vehicle efficiency. For...
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Flexible, Modular Robo-EV
Four years ago, when Germany announced that it planned to put 1 million electric cars on the nation’s autobahns and roads by 2020, government ministers turned to the public-private R&D partnership DFKI, the...
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Army Tests Improved Multiple Launch Rocket System
Over 100 artillery rockets were launched recently at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) to test an improved version of the M270A1 Multiple Launch Rocket System, or MLRS. The test, conducted at...
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3D Printed Aircraft Flown Off Royal Navy Warship
A 3D printed aircraft has successfully launched off the front of a Royal Navy warship and landed safely on a Dorset beach.
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Vibration Table Used to Test Nuclear Weapon Components
It took decades for technology to catch up with the math David Smallwood worked out to control vibration table shakers. Smallwood, a retired Sandia National Laboratories researcher who...
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GHG Phase 2 Regs, Autonomous Vehicles Present Challenges, Opportunities
PACCAR Technical Center works closely with all of the company’s truck divisions—DAF in Europe, Peterbilt and Kenworth in North America and globally—and has two...
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Searching for V2V's Hidden Data
If vehicles eventually talk to each other and to infrastructure stations as expected, there’s going to be a ton of data about traffic and road conditions. Information technology and automotive companies...
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Honda's New Pioneer 1000 Side-By-Side Gets Purpose-Built 999-Cc Engine, Industry-First DCT
Honda has developed two new full-size side-by-side (SxS) models—the Pioneer 1000 and 1000-5—to complement its 2016 lineup, which also includes...
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Schaeffler's Electric Powertrain Primed for FIA Formula E Racing
The second season of FIA Formula E begins in Beijing, China on October 17, 2015, with the ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport team’s exclusive technology partner ready to demonstrate...
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Cadillac Fortifies CTS for V Duty
Cadillac continues its battle to achieve premium market esteem equivalent to that of segment leaders BMW and Mercedes-Benz by pushing for top quality and performance in each new model. The high-performance...
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Bentley Takes SUV to Super Premium Level
W. O. Bentley would have been intrigued and certainly impressed that the company bearing his name is producing what it claims as the “fastest, most powerful, most luxurious, and most exclusive SUV...
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Case Shifts to Enhanced Communications, LEDs
Case IH has enhanced its electronic features and functions, adding ISOBUS Class 3 capabilities and beefing up its Advanced Farming Systems (AFS) communications technology. In a broad product...
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Toyota Gives a Look at Its Re-Engineered 2016 Prius
While Toyota threw quite the launch party in early September in Las Vegas—a first for the company—to enable over 350 guests to get an official look at the 2016 fourth-generation Prius...
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Blizzard Conditions Test FCA's 4WD and AWD Vehicles
With more 4x4 and all-wheel-drive vehicles in its product portfolio than at any other time, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has invested $2.5 million to upgrade a climatic test cell with a 4x4...
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Audi Chooses High Technology but Cautious Design Evolution for New A4
Audi’s just revealed 2016MY A4 is a classic example of automotive evolutionary design. Its aesthetics are not quite ripe for a game of “spot the difference” between...
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Mini Sensors
Vishay Intertechnology offers epoxy-coated mini sensors optimized for automotive temperature probes. Built on advanced negative temperature coefficient thermistor technology, AEC-Q200-qualified NTCLE213E3 sensors deliver response...
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Ford GT Prototypes "Run Naked" in Public-Road Testing Phase
Without camouflage or dazzle paint jobs, Ford’s 2017 GT development program has begun public-road testing in southeastern Michigan. The exotic American supercars are "running...
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Audi All-Electric Concept to Take on Tesla Model X
Audi revealed plans for a production battery EV sport crossover in 2018 when it rolled out the e-tron quattro concept at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show. The sleek SUV carries a large 95...
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BMW Lightens 7 Series, but Bulks up on Tech
Prestige car manufacturers are trading body blows among their top-segment models, with each ladling on more lavish content and more cutting-edge technology with each new introduction.
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Millbrook’s Latest Sound Advice to the Auto Industry
UK independent vehicle test, validation, and engineering services provider, Millbrook, is considering introducing acoustic holography as the next step in the further development of its...
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SsangYong Takes on European Challenge with Tivoli
“Tivoli is the biggest thing to happen to SsangYong,” says Paul Williams, CEO of SsangYong Motor UK.
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PLM Mobile Strategy
Aras Flow is an integrated mobile tablet app for Aras Innovator 11. For the first time in PLM, according to Aras, change workflows are combined with discussion commenting, visualization, and markup in a tablet format. With...
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Fuel-Saving KERS for Big-Rig Trucks
The average European heavy-duty truck burns from 31 to 38 L of diesel fuel per 100 km of travel (6 to 8 mpg), according to European Commission estimates and truck magazine tests. That might sound like low...
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Nissan Shows Gripz Crossover Concept
After a run of success with unorthodox SUV styling, especially in the Juke subcompact crossover SUV, Nissan has apparently decided to mine this vein as the company’s new signature.
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Volkswagen Re-Engineers Tiguan
Volkswagen’s original Tiguan compact SUV of 2007 was too expensive and too thirsty to achieve blockbuster sales during the segment’s emergence as a key source of sales. But it achieved worldwide sales of...
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APUs save Fuel, Serve as Driver Retention Tool
The American Trucking Associations (ATA) estimates the current shortage of drivers is roughly 35,000 to 40,000. The inability to find new drivers is a reality that many fleets face today, and...
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Energid Actively Working on Simulation Technologies for Lunar and Planetary Rovers
For obvious reasons, conditions on lunar and planetary surfaces can understandably be hard to duplicate physically, even in the best case when they are...
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Oshkosh’s $30B Humvee Replacement Makes Soldier Protection a Top Priority
First there was the Jeep. Then came the Humvee. Now, the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) will soon enter production as the 21st century mobility machine for the...
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MTU Engines, and Engineers, to Reap Benefit of New R&D Test Facility
In late July, a €40 million, 9000-m² test facility in Friedrichshafen, MTU’s lead site and main R&D location, officially went into service. The new five-story...
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2016 Chevrolet Cruze Is Larger, Longer, and Sheds 250 Lb
General Motors’ best-selling global product, the Chevrolet Cruze, gains an all-new platform for 2016 that helps make the C-segment model longer, roomier, more aerodynamic, and...
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High-Integrity, Low-Cost Aluminum Components Produced by Semi-Solid Casting
Semi-solid casting is a near-net shape casting process that is capable of producing extremely high-quality castings. It differs from all other casting processes as...
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Helium Leak Detectors
Helium leak detection systems are helping transmission suppliers improve quality and reduce the cost of producing new automatic transmissions. Kuka Assembly and Test Corp., for example, has developed leak-detection...
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Acoustic Engine Layer
Basotect TG melamine foam from BASF is used for the acoustic layer in Volkswagen EA888 engine covers. The use of Basotect on the engine cover helps to address multiple challenges faced by automakers: it provides enhanced...
Product Briefs Aerospace
Lubricants for Cabin Noise Reduction
Lubricant solutions from Klüber Lubrication reduce stick-slip and eliminate cabin noise generated by vibration and friction in automobile interiors. Klüberalfa MR 3 is designed for friction points in vehicles where improved sliding and noise-damping behavior are required. The invisible oil remains in the lube...
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NASA Tests New Green Propellants for Satellites
To stay in the proper orbit, many satellites have thrusters – small rocket engines – that fire to change altitude or orientation in space. On Earth, where gravity dominates, five pounds of...
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Tool Nondestructively Characterizes Structural Materials as they Deform
Materials scientists are busy developing advanced materials, while also working to squeeze every bit of performance out of existing materials. This is particularly true...
Product Briefs Aerospace
High-Strength Aluminum Alloys
The Advanz 7000-series aluminum alloys from Novelis are designed for safety-critical components of vehicle structures. Claimed to be two to three times stronger than any automotive aluminum used in high volumes...
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Honda Shows Radical Project 2&4
Honda sought to recapture some of the glory of its motorcycling and open-wheel-racing heritage at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show, introducing the Project 2&4, a tiny go-kart of a concept vehicle that...
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Polycarbonate Film Grade
Covestro’s (formerly Bayer MaterialScience) Makrofol SR906 is a polycarbonate film that offers good scratch and weathering resistance, making it suitable for use in automotive instrument panels. The clear, transparent film has a gloss-gloss surface finish. It is capped with a functional acrylic layer that includes an...
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Jaguar’s Making of a Sports Sedan
“Sport” is a much abused word in the automotive industry. Like “coupe” and “GT” together with other attempts at glorification through categorization, it is open to abuse.
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Composites and Economic Success
SAE International’s book, Economics of Composites, captures the state of the composites industry to assist engineering/technical professionals in charting a course for achieving economic success. The book...
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Tenneco Unveils Emission-Control Solutions for Euro 6c
Euro 6c emissions limits will present a number of challenges for light duty engine emissions, both gasoline and diesel when the regulations come into force in September 2017. One...
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NASA Pursues Coatings That Reduce Bug Debris to Improve Aerodynamics
NASA recently tested non-stick coatings on Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator 757 that could eventually help aircraft become more fuel efficient by reducing insect residue that...
Global Vehicles Automotive
Mercedes’ New GLC Represents a Sportier Focus
“Modern lightweight construction, the best aerodynamics (Cd 0.31) in its class, and innovative drive systems make the Mercedes-Benz GLC a real champion in the field of energy efficiency.”...
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