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Reducing Pumping Loss
Reductions in flow pressure loss can be achieved by reducing the pressure drop that occurs in the flow of air…
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Reducing Mechanical Friction
Mechanical friction losses can be reduced by converting sliding metal contacts to rolling contacts, reducing the weight of moving parts,…
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Improvements To Spark Ignition Engines
Overview The spark ignition (SI) engine is the dominant passenger car and light truck powerplant in the United States. The…
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Rolling Resistance Reduction
Background The rolling resistance of a tire is the force required to move the tire forward, and represents nearly a…
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Materials Selection Criteria
Five key factors affect the auto designer’s selection of materials: manufacturability and cost, performance, weight, safety, and recyclability. Manufacturability and…
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Technologies for Advanced Vehicles Performance and Cost Expectations
This chapter discusses the technical potential and probable costs of a range of advanced vehicle technologies that may be available…
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Battery Technologies
The battery is the critical technology for electric vehicles, providing both energy and power storage. Unfortunately, the weak link of…
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Safety Of Lightweight Vehicles
Several of the advanced vehicles examined by OTA will be extremely light. For example, one of the 2015 advanced conventional…
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Emissions Performance
Reductions in vehicular emissions are a key goal of programs to develop advanced technology vehicles. In California, it is the…
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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…