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Performance And Cost Of Other Types Of Light-Duty Vehicles
Most of the results of OTA’s analyses of mid-size autos apply similarly, on a percentage basis, to other auto size…
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Thermoelectric Cooler : A new horizon in Mechanical and Electronics Engineering
The Thermoelectric (TEC) innovation was first found by a French physicist named Jean Peltier that is why it is also…
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Challenges and Opportunities in lithium-ion battery technologies for electric vehicles
The automotive industry’s quest to limit its impact on the environment and transform automotive mobility into a sustainable mode of…
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Electromagnetic Stir Casting: An Approach to Produce Hybrid Metal Matrix Composite (MMC)
(Figure: Experimental Setup) A metal matrix composite is a composite material that constitutes one metal and other different metal or…
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Motor Technology – The ‘Centre’ of an Electric Vehicle Efficiency
In the energy starving world, demand of energy is continuously raising, of-course not parallel to its supply. This issue become…
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Steering system
On passenger cars, the driver must select the steering wheel angle to keep deviation from the desired course low. However,…
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Independent wheel suspensions – general
The chassis of a passenger car must be able to handle the engine power installed. Ever-improving acceleration, higher peak and…
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General characteristics of wheel suspensions
The suspension of modern vehicles need to satisfy a number of requirements whose aims partly conflict because of different operating…
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Flywheel energy storage
Flywheel energy storage systems for use in vehicle propulsion has reached application in the light tram vehicle. They have also…
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Improvements in electronic engine control
The digital engine control system in this chapter has been made possible by a rapid evolution of the state of…
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Summary of control modes
Engine crank (start) The following list is a summary of the engine operations in the engine crank (starting) mode. Here,…
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System diagnosis
Another important feature of microcomputer engine control systems is their ability to diagnose failures in their control systems and alert…