Automotive Engineering
Automotive Engineering highlights issues related to automobile manufacturing – including vehicle parts and accessories – and the environmental impact and safety of automotive products, production facilities and manufacturing processes.
innovations-report offers stimulating reports and articles on a variety of topics ranging from automobile fuel cells, hybrid technologies, energy saving vehicles and carbon particle filters to engine and brake technologies, driving safety and assistance systems.
Directing a driver’s gaze results in smoother steering
Typically, drivers gaze along a curve as they negotiate it, but they also look at other parts of the road, the dashboard, traffic signs and oncoming vehicles….
Dashing computer interface to control your car
European research and the automotive industry have joined forces and developed a dashboard interface that can link and control the increasing information and…
Low abrasion DuPont™ Vespel® thrust washers for maintenance-free SUV transfer case
Used in premium SUVs from Land Rover and Daimler, these ITC’s are located upstream of the differential to ensure optimum torque transfer between the front and…
Cornell to Show Off its 100-mpg Car-in-progress at New York State Fair
“Our goal is to bring awareness of the technology to the public,” said team leader Trey Riddle, a graduate student in Cornell's Department of Mechanical and…
Energy storage for hybrid vehicles
The vehicle is powered by petroleum on the freeway and by electricity in town, thus using considerably less energy. A hybrid propulsion system switches over to…
Computer simulates thermal stress
Exhaust fumes come hissing out of car engines at up to 1050 degrees Celsius – and that’s pretty hot! It exposes the engine components to tremendous stress, for…