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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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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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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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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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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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Customizing, Updating Software Gets Easier
Programmers are constantly finding new ways to make it simpler to alter software—whether they’re changing programs for a new vehicle or updating software in the field. While some development...
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Autocoding Shortens Development Time, Simplifies Validation
Software continues to become a more important factor for providing new features and functions, making code writing and validation a mainstay of design cycles. Automated code...
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Operator Safety, Productivity Focus of Volvo CE's Crawler Excavator
Incorporating a Volvo Tier 4 Final D4 engine, Volvo Construction Equipment's new EC160E crawler excavator offers an 8% improvement in fuel efficiency, and 5% improvements...
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U.S. Army Shifts from Radios to VoIP Technology
The U.S. military is moving closer to its goal of letting disparate groups of warfighters communicate freely. The U.S. Army has adopted an Internet Protocol-based communications system that...
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Compact High-Shock 6DOF Sensor
The 6DX PRO for gathering kinematic data for research and engineering validation was designed by DTS specifically for occupant dynamics and human injury assessment. DTS claims the 6DX PRO is the smallest,...
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Electromechanical Heavy-Duty Cylinders
Ready to install, electromechanical heavy-duty cylinders from Rexroth enable freely programmable motion sequences, even at high forces. The units are suitable for machinery and equipment as well as for...
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First Airbus A350-1000 Wing Goes into Production in North Wales
Airbus has begun the assembly process on the wings for the first Airbus A350-1000 in Broughton, North Wales. The A350-1000 wing has the same span of the A350-900 that is...
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Rockwell Collins Upgrades Direction Finder with Multi-Channel Scanning
Rockwell Collins's new DF-500 direction finder builds on the search and rescue (SAR) mission of its DF-430 predecessor. The DF-430 had been in production for over 10...
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Neuron's Busy European Summer Involves Flight Test Campaign
Neuron, the European full-scale technological demonstrator for UCAV (unmanned combat aerial vehicle) developed by a team led by Dassault Aviation with the collaboration of...
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Three Times More Power Density the Charm for Lockheed Martin Cooling System
Scientists and engineers at Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Center (ATC) have packed three times the power density into a key satellite cooling system whose...
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Signal Compression Technology Enables E-Fan's Flight, Potential Enhanced 'Black Box' Possibilities
V-Nova Ltd. demonstrated the capabilities of its PERSEUS data compression technology for aerospace applications as part of Airbus'...
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Preparing for First Flight on Mars
With its eye on Mars, NASA Armstrong has been working on a prototype it refers to as the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Land on Mars, or Prandtl-m, which is “a flying wing aircraft with a...
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Spot Welding of Non-Ferrous Metals
Coldwater Machine’s new SpotMeld system, available from its Solid State Joining Center, is based on Refill Friction Stir Spot Weld (RFSSW) technology. The system enables spot welding of aluminum (1000-7000...
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