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On the charge
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At the 5th International Conference on Advanced Downsizing & Turbocharging, held in March, new solutions for turbocharger hoses were announced. Ian Adcock got the details from Volker Oehl, Europe area marketing leader for Dow Corning Corporation's automotive industry
The increasing trends towards smaller, highly boosted petrol engines and ever more powerful diesels, packaged in engine ... Read more
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Halving time to market |
27/03/2013
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| Automated Manual Transmissions (AMTs) are complex mechatronics systems that are difficult to design. |
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Hyundai’s hydrogen future |
27/02/2013
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| Hyundai's first fuel cell research started in 1998. At that time, Hyundai's brand value was very low and most component providers wouldn't sell to us, so it was very difficult to even purchase fuel cell components. I joined in 2003. |
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How green can a car plant be?: Jacques Prost |
26/02/2013
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| As a Renault campaign veteran, whose 35-year career with the French company has spanned from the developing of Alpine sports cars to overseeing its powertrain operations, engineer Jacques Prost is not prone to exaggeration or overly flamboyant language. |
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Paint your wagon |
27/11/2012
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| McLaren wanted best in class, with respect to gloss and general appearance, for its new P1 supercar that was unveiled at the Paris motorshow. |
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A shift in the oil mix |
01/11/2012
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| Polyalkylene glycol oils promise to reduce friction, cut CO2 emissions and promote biodegradability – so why haven't they been taken up? Dr Mathias Woydt of Berlin's Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing is interviewd to find out more. |
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Train of thought: Thomas Broberg |
29/10/2012
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| As the Safe Road Trains for the Environment (SARTRE) project draws to a close, we're looking at how we can apply some of the lessons we've learned into future research here at Volvo, especially with regard to simplified, low-speed situations. |
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Democratisation of Technology |
26/10/2012
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| Andreas Schamel, managing director of the European Ford Research Centre was spoken to at the Future Transport Challenge to get an insight into the brand's engineering strategy. |
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Eradicating points of friction |
29/09/2012
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| We first started research into nano lubricants in 2006-07, but it wasn't for another 12 months or so that we had our first lubricants developed. |
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Pushing piston progress |
29/09/2012
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| Arnd Baberg, Federal Mogul's chief engineer product engineering powertrain energy, talks about its latest piston technologies |
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Walking the torque: Guillaume Devauchelle interview |
28/09/2012
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| A system that fills in the torque gap of a turbocharged diesel engine, allowing a smaller power unit to punch well above its size, without the dreaded 'lag' – that has to be a winner, surely. So, a decade later, why has it yet to come to market? |
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Safe, green and connected |
01/02/2012
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| General Motors spun Delphi off as an independent supplier in 1999, but after six years it filed for Chapter 11. In October 2009, it successfully emerged from bankruptcy as a fitter, leaner business.
Ian Adcock recently caught up with Dr Andrew Brown Jr, its executive director and chief
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60 second Interview Guy Morris |
01/02/2012
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| 48 volts could be the enabling technology for mild hybrids
Guy Morris, engineering director, Controlled Power Technologies |
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THE RIGHT connections |
01/11/2011
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| At the recent Siemens PLM Connection Europe 2011 event in Linz, Austria, Mark Fletcher caught up with Chuck Grindstaff, CEO & CTO of Siemens PLM Software, to find out how the company is evolving its products to better cater for the diverse needs of the automotive industry. |
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Ascent of a young upstart |
01/11/2011
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| In the 'aluminium versus rivals' debate, it is the lifecycle element of its GHG footprint and how that is determined that causes the biggest sparks, as Ian Adcock reports |
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Isaac Litman, CEO Mobileye |
01/11/2011
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| Proprietary artificial vision technology assists drivers in their routine driving tasks by acting as a 'third eye' |
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The future is in The Cloud |
01/09/2011
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| 'The Cloud' is on almost everyone's lips. Many understand the concept, while the advantages it offers to the automotive industry are quickly becoming more transparent. Mark Fletcher speaks to Sanjay Ravi, managing director, worldwide discrete manufacturing industry for Microsoft, to see what the
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60 second interview |
01/09/2011
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| Tim Davis is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and senior member of the American Society for Quality and an honorary professor at Bradford and Warwick universities. |
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60 second interview |
29/08/2011
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| Want more from your infotainment system? Well, maybe have it double up as your in-car 'doctor', monitoring your health at the same time! |
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Man with a mission |
01/08/2011
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| Bentley's new chairman and CEO Wolfgang Dürheimer is also president of Bugatti and responsible for Volkswagen's motor sport strategy. Ian Adcock caught up with him before the start of the Le Mans 24hrs race |
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60 second interview |
01/06/2011
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| Pedals are fixed and everything else can adjust accordingly, goes the popular consensus. Here, Peter Horbury challenges that thinking |
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Quick-fire reaction |
01/06/2011
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| Ian Adcock talks with Reaction Design CEO Bernie Rosenthal about the company's groundbreaking computational fluid dynamics package for combustion analysis |
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