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Targeting 40% BTE with Advanced VCR

Nissan’s announcement at the 2016 Paris Motor Show that it will bring a variable-compression-ratio engine to production in 2018 (see AE November, 2016, p. 6) energized those in the advanced-ICE...

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Green Design & Manufacturing

Honda and GM Pioneer New Fuel-Cell Manufacturing Venture

The first time General Motors’ global product development chief Mark Reuss got an up-close look at Honda technology was as a kid when he tore apart his QA-50 minibike in the family...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

3D Printer

Methods 3D Inc. (Sudbury, MA) introduces the 3D Systems' ProX SLS 500 Selective Laser Sintering production 3D printer featuring fast speeds, high print resolution and a range of engineered composite materials. According to the...

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Materials

Oil- and Abrasion-Resistant Cable

ÖLFLEX 409 P PUR control cable from Lapp Group USA (Florham Park, NJ) is an oil- and abrasion-resistant cable for industrial machine tools and appliances. According to the company, a special interstice...

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Power

Ashok Leyland’s ‘Circuit’ Series Is First Electric Bus Made in India

Ashok Leyland’s first Circuit electric bus is designed and engineered entirely in India, by Indians, for India, the company said in a recent product announcement. In line with Ashok Leyland's vision for the future of mass mobility, the country’s first ‘Made in India’...

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Transportation

Sales of Maruti Suzuki Smart Hybrid Vehicles Surpass One Lakh Units

Maruti Suzuki India Limited announced that its Smart Hybrid vehicles, the Ciaz SHVS and the Ertiga SHVS, have crossed cumulative sales of 100,000 units in February.

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Transportation

SANY India Enters Mining Segment, Launches Range of Off-Highway Dump Trucks

The new mining business unit will be headed by Dheeraj Panda, who is the Business Unit Head and Vice President of Excavators at SANY India.

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Aerospace

Recoated and Ready

Air superiority comes at a cost. The U.S. Air Force (USAF) F-22 Raptor may arguably be the most capable air superiority fighter ever built, but the aircraft has lingered in depots due to a variety of substantial...

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Defense

S.S. White Technologies Lending Flexibility to New GE9X, 777X

S.S. White Technologies is supplying flexible rotary shafts for the Honeywell Aerospace Air Turbine Starter (ATS) on the next-gen GE Aviation GE9X high-bypass turbofan engines.

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Defense

Fresh Air for the Passenger Experience

When considering environmental factors in commercial aerospace, the most familiar themes focus on the reduction of emissions, noise, and fuel consumption. These design factors are interlinked and...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Probing FAST Processing for High-Tech Ceramic Components

Researchers from Purdue University are studying the fundamental mechanisms behind a technique known as field-assisted sintering technology (FAST), where applying an electric field...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Sharpening the Focus on OBD-II Security

SAE Standards News aims to update readers on the extensive activity in the SAE Global Ground Vehicle Standards development arena, by more than 800 ground vehicle committees comprised of volunteers...

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Aerospace

Fluctuating Forces of Flight Captured by High-Tech Paint

A rocket is buffeted by a chaotic flow of air during flight. At high speeds, airplanes experience a similar, unsteady flow of air over their wings. A method to precisely measure these...

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Aerospace

Discovery Could Lead to Cleaner, More Efficient Jet Engines

Researchers at The Ohio State University found a way to improve the high-temperature properties of superalloys used in jet engines. The method tailors an alloy’s composition and...

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Aerospace

New Lab Helps Boeing Detect Aircraft Flaws

Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology and The Boeing Company established a new nondestructive evaluation (NDE) laboratory that uses millimeter-wave technology to improve the...

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Propulsion

Early Ride: Lucid Motors’ 1,000-Hp Air ‘Alpha’ Prototype

Always an early test for the veracity and viability of automotive startups: ya got a car that runs?

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Smaller Suppliers Facing Global Challenges

Are you willing and prepared to follow your customers around the world to support their global product initiatives?

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Electronics & Computers

High-Power Wireless Charging Technology

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (Oak Ridge, TN) 20-kw wireless charging system has achieved 90% efficiency at three times the rate of the wired charging systems commonly used for electric vehicles...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Signal Conditioning, Filter and Instrumentation Amplifier

Alligator Technologies (Costa Mesa, CA) offers x10000 amplifier gain enhancement for the company’s USB controlled USBPIA-S1 single channel programmable signal conditioning...