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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ford Researches 'Intelligent' Lighting Systems
Ford is developing a camera-based advanced technology lighting system that can automatically widen dipped beams at road junctions and roundabouts. The company is also researching infrared...
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Battling the High Cost of EV Batteries
Today’s electrochemical battery is like a latter-day philosopher’s stone—just insert and inanimate objects spring to life. Nothing else in our technological arsenal can compare.
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Lightweighting Focus for TE's Connectivity Solutions
TE Connectivity recently announced two new aerospace connectivity solutions that offer substantial weight savings: its COPALUM Lite sealed terminals and splices, and its Raychem INSTALITE...
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Lifting 3D Printing to New Heights
Whether it’s through 3D printing jet engine fuel nozzles by the thousands or validating metal rocket injectors for space flight, aerospace has consistently proven itself to be on the cutting edge of the...
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Jaguar Design Director on the Shape of Things to Come
Ian Callum admits that he was petrified when he joined Jaguar. He knew it was no longer the company he had admired since he was a kid—no longer dynamic, modern, youthful: “I thought,...
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John Deere Electronic Solutions' Modular Inverter for Hybrid Electric Vehicles
John Deere Electronic Solutions developed its PD400 modular inverter for high voltage/high power hybrid electric off-highway and heav-duty vehicles. The...
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Cat Pipelayers Offer Power and Comfort to Operators
Independent, variable-speed winches for the boom and hook provide precise control, and an enhanced counterweight system ensures a low center of gravity in Caterpillar's new PL72, PL83, and...
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Komatsu America Adds to Intelligent Machine Lineup
The long track, low ground pressure D65PXi-18 introduced recently by Komatsu America Corp. was designed specifically for functionality in soft or wet conditions, offering improved stability...
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Supercharging Advances with Clutches
For boosting an engine, exhaust gas turbochargers offer efficiency in scavenging waste heat and converting it for more power. Their problem is that they often lack advantage in low-speed conditions...
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Ford Focuses on Cameras
Ford Motor Co. is beefing up its use of cameras and expanding their roles. Imagers can help drivers peer around corners and help back up trailers in addition to basic functions like lane keeping.
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SAKOR Develops 'Spacecraft Emulator' to Test Dream Chaser Control System
SAKOR Technologies, Inc. has supplied a test system to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to be used to test the atmospheric flight control system for the Dream...
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Northrop Grumman and Green Hills Software Part of H-1 Upgrades
Under a recently awarded contract from Naval Air Systems Command, Northrop Grumman will provide FlightPro Gen III mission computers for the UH-1Y and AH-1Z aircraft, becoming...
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Rising Sun Breaks Cover on Japanese Defense Industry
For the first time since the Second World War, the Japanese aerospace industry has demonstrated a new defense air program overseas in an attempt to interest potential export customers. In...
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Flight Vision System for Rotary-Wing Aircraft
Elbit Systems Ltd.'s Helicopter ClearVision is the rotary-wing version of its ClearVision next-generation enhanced flight vision system (EFVS) for commercial aircraft. This system has been...
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