Automotive Engineering

Automotive Engineering

Greener Car Power: Innovations in Thermoelectric Generation

Professor Mike Rowe’s long term research interest at the Cardiff School of Engineering has been in thermoelectric generation – employing thermocouples to…

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Two DuPont™ Zytel® HTN PPA products help tyre pressure monitoring system stand up to pressures of the road

The new SmartWave® external, valve stem-mounted TPMS uses Zytel® HTN PPA SuperStructural resin for the housing and Zytel® HTN PPA for the cap. “Protecting the…

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Natural Gas Vehicles Innovation in Malaysia: CNG/DI Advances

CNG/DI Engine and Transmission Researchers: Barkawi Sahari (1), Fakhru’l-Razi Ahmadun (1), Ishak Aris (1), Norman Mariun (1), T. G. Chuah (1) ; Yusoff Ali (2),…

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Smart Cars Connect: Com2React Innovations Enhance Safety

The Com2React team says their technology could be useful to drivers, traffic police, emergency services and companies with a fleet of vehicles to manage.The…

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Hybrid Vehicles: Are They Truly Eco-Friendly?

Writing in the Inderscience publication International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management, they suggest that the adoption of HEVs might even slow…

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Ames Laboratory Enhances Magnets for Electric-Drive Cars

Ask Iver Anderson at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory about consumer interest in and desire for “ultragreen” electric-drive vehicles, and he’ll…

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Crash Warning Systems: Are Connected Cars Ready for Automation?

It knows its location, can talk to other cars and can tell the future. Are we entering the era of truly automated cars? The Collision Warning System (CWS) is…

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Hydrogen Storage Solutions for Future Cars Explained

Hydrogen is the fuel of the future. Unfortunately, one problem remains: Hydrogen is a gas and cannot easily be pumped into a tank like gasoline. Storage in the…

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NIST Evaluates Auto Crash Warning System Performance

Researchers in industry and at the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) will be able to use the NIST technology to accelerate the development and…

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Diesel Expertise Fuels Automotive Investment in France

“France’s thriving automotive market has the second-highest percentage of diesel engines in Europe – 71% of new cars registered are diesel-driven – making it a…

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New Car Catalysator Process Boosts Efficiency and Discovery

To date, the second reaction path was completely unknown, but it seems to work much more efficiently than the first, more familiar process. This discovery has…

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Smart Sound Insulation in Cars Reduces Emissions and Weight

But it is a weighty process, adding kilos onto the overall weight of the car, increases the power and therefore the fuel consumption needed to make it go….

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SolarFox Racing: UCL’s Innovative Solar Car Hits Milestone

An initial qualifying lap saw UCL’s ‘SolarFox’ placed 17th on a grid of 39 cars. The team maintained its position through the first day’s racing, clocking up…

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New Night-Vision System Enhances Safety and Reduces Car Accidents

This is largely due to the reduced visual acuity and field of vision at night as a consequence of the illumination from the headlights — these factors are…

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See what you’re spewing as you speed along

In future drivers may only have to glance at the dashboard to see the pollution spewing out of their vehicle’s exhausts.A team from The University of…

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Bendy Sensors for Hydrogen Vehicles Boosted by Nanotechnology

Recently, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have used their insights into nanomaterials to create bendy hydrogen…

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