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DSD, Solvay 'Sink Their Teeth' into Plastic Transmission Advances
For the automotive industry, plastics have long been a weight-saving material of choice, with a wide range of high-volume applications from body panels to interiors and...
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Safety Symposium Cites Training and Technology to Reduce Teen Fatalities, Accidents
Teens are 4% of the driving population, but are involved in 8% of the accidents, the annual Traffic Safety Symposium of the New York Auto Show was told by...
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New York Auto Show 2016: Toyota Prius Prime Amps up Plug-In Capabilities
In a slight reboot of its hybrid marketing approach, Toyota used the 2016 New York auto show unveil the 2017 Prius Prime, the plug-in hybrid version of the...
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Harman Advanced Concept Brings Intuitive HMI to Automated Driving
Harman International is demonstrating an advanced connected-car platform that previews a fundamental shift in the human-machine interface of automated and autonomous...
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Airbus Streamlines Fiber Optic Cable Repair Process
Airbus put together what it describes as a transnational, transfunctional team to develop an efficient new method to repair fiber optic cables.
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Boeing Comes Clean with Self-Cleaning Lavatory
Even as the importance of reducing both noise and pollutant emissions continues to grow in modern aircraft, so too does the recognition of the importance of the passenger experience.
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Diesel Market Steady Despite VW Issues, Industry Group Says
The Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal has taken a number of passenger-vehicle diesels temporarily off the market. But "circumstances involving a single manufacturer do not define...
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Autonomous Future Will Require New Product Development Approaches
The growing number of autonomous-car demonstration programs foreshadow a future of self-driving vehicles, but making the transition to series production is no easy feat,...
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Bombardier C Series Taking off in Europe
In early March, Bombardier said that it had started month-long CS100 aircraft route-proving exercises in Europe. The dedicated CS100 is operated by Bombardier from launch operator Swiss Air Line’s...
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Aurora Developing Distributed Hybrid-Electric Propulsion System for VTOL X-Plane
Aurora Flight Sciences has officially made it to Phase 2 of DARPA’s Vertical Takeoff and Landing Experimental Plane (VTOL X-Plane) program and will be...
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Probing Ways to Dampen Sonic Boom
One of the reasons there is not a supersonic plane flying in and out of an airport near you is because of that not-so-little thing known as a sonic boom. And that particular reason also has a lot to do with...
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Vehicle Development Heads into the Cloud
Connectivity continues to transform the automotive industry, forcing product development teams to join the movement to cloud computing. The many cloud service providers are playing an increasingly...
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Mr. Bond, Your DB11 Is Ready with Aston Martin's Latest Aero Advancements
The new Aston Martin DB11 2+2 unveiled at the Geneva Show introduced a number of new features in an evolution of the V12-powered DB9. Aston Martin speaks of a new...
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PSA's E-TENSE Shows Design Cues for Future DS Models
According to the DS E-TENSE design team, the E-TENSE is not really a concept car because it offers a glimpse of design features that will be seen on future production models. One of the...
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2017 Audi Q2 Design Inspired by American Football
Audi unveiled the 2017 Q2, its smallest SUV to date, at the 2016 Geneva Show. Riding on VW Group's MQB modular architecture and fitting into the company’s Q-series SUV models below the Q3,...
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Long-Range Air Force Strategies Include New B-21 Long-Range Bomber
With the Government Accountability Office (GOA) recently ruling in Northrop Grumman’s favor for the contract for the U.S. Air Force’s new long-range strike bomber, which...
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Design Validation for Harsh Off-Highway Conditions
The growing role of electronics and software is altering the design process, requiring a greater focus on validation and verification. Tools are evolving to let developers do more tests...
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SAE Standards Point Way to Service of R-1234yf Systems
The automotive air-conditioning industry changeover to low global warming R-1234yf involves a lot more than new fittings and a more robust evaporator to prevent leakage of the...
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EPA's 2021 A/C Refrigerant Rules Accelerate R-1234yf Changeover
The industry transition to a low global-warming-potential (GWP) air conditioning refrigerant, already underway in Europe, moves into high gear in the U.S., as CAFE (Corporate...
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GKN Puts Electric-Drive TV System for 2019 on Ice
GKN Driveline systems integration engineer Rainer Brüning was a little disappointed.
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A High-Level Look at the Global MRO Market
Aerospace and defense (A&D) companies that provide maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) services increasingly find themselves out of their comfort zone as the recent appetite for new...
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Northrop Grumman Proves SYERS-2 Ready to Graduate from U-2 to RQ-4
Northrop Grumman flew a SYERS-2 (senior year electro-optical reconnaissance systems) intelligence gathering sensor on an RQ-4 Global Hawk, marking the debut of the legacy...
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EasyJet Puts Its Money on a Hybrid Plane Concept
As one of the infamous "low-cost airlines," easyJet has become much more well known as a company that is cost-cutting as opposed to money spending. But in a step toward expanding its cutting...
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A Tern Toward a Full-Scale VTOL UAV Demonstrator
Communication is key, during war or peace. In this day and age, both require the ability to conduct airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), at will and upon demand. But...
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GM Rechristens Powertrain Unit as ‘Global Propulsion Systems’
In its latest break from its storied but perceptually stodgy past, General Motors has renamed its Powertrain division—since 1992 the unit responsible for design,...
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Automakers and Suppliers Crank up Their Interest in Electric Bikes
Automakers and Tier 1s are expanding their view of transportation and its potential profit centers. They're rolling out battery-powered electric bicycles that let drivers...
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Nissan Readies Light-Duty Version of Titan Pickup
At February’s Chicago auto show, Nissan revealed the 2017 light-duty (half-ton) version of the Titan pickup as the promised follow-up to the 2016 Titan XD quasi-commercial model that...
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Volvo's New Plug-In XC90 Is Really a Tri-Motor
Unusually for an OEM, Volvo Cars is being a bit modest about its new XC90 plug-in hybrid, describing it as the T8 Twin Engine. But technically the 2016 PHEV is, in aerospace parlance, a...
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Kia's 2017 Niro Hybrid CUV Targets Sub-90 G/km CO2 Emissions
A novel hybrid-electric powertrain debuting on the 2017 Kia Niro subcompact CUV targets sub-90 g/km CO2 emissions and combined highway/city 50 mpg fuel economy.
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