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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Crash Test Helps Improve Emergency Response
NASA’s Langley Research Center hoisted a Cessna 172 aircraft 100 feet into the air by cables and released it. The plane plummeted onto a slab of dirt in a violent but controlled experiment that will...
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Database Could Make Airport Ground Movements Quicker and Greener
Growth in air traffic and passenger numbers has led to warnings that airports could become bottlenecks in the global air transportation system. Ensuring efficient movement of...
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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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