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Freescale’s Mad Mac Concept Car (named for the lead designer, Tom MacDonald) was designed to highlight many of the automotive system innovations powered by Freescale’s silicon products and provide a view into possible future systems. The design of the...
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Infineon and Auto Electronics sponsored the Rev Up Fuel Efficiency Design Contest, where engineers took the "green challenge" to design a solution using Infineon products that enables or improves energy efficiency for automotive applications...
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The Automotive X-Prize (AXP) will be awarded to the team that produces a 100 mile-per-gallon (equivalent) vehicle, develops a feasible business plan to produce 10,000 units, and wins a series of stage races against similar vehicles. The Cornell Automotive...
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In Part 2 of our interview with Chak Man Yeung from NI Week, "Sunny" digs deeper into the University of Texas' solar "raycer". Featuring the National Instruments CompactRIO real-time programmable automation controller, the Samsung...
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Raser Technologies, Inc., in conjunction with its systems integration partner, FEV, unveiled components of a new advanced extended-range plug-in series hybrid electric vehicle powertrain and integrated drive system designed for full-size SUVs and pickup...
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An extremely lightweight opposed piston opposed cylinder (OPOC) engine has been developed under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program. FEV and Advanced Propulsion Technologies (APT) were asked by the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research...
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Cyclone’s Green Revolution Engine represents true “thinking outside the box.” This is because it is not a new variation of the internal combustion engine, but rather, a highly advanced External Combustion Engine. Unlike IC engines, the Cyclone engine...
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The Cyclone Waste Heat Engine (WHE) is a self-starting engine that operates in a low pressure, low temperature range. This feature allows the engine to run on waste heat emanating from an external source, such as the exhaust from an internal (or external...
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The Motorsport Engineering Program at CSU set out to design and build a floating liner engine to be used for the measurement of internal friction. A floating liner engine is one for which the cylinder liner is mounted in such a way that any rigid contacts...
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The Motorsport Engineering academic program at Colorado State University focuses on advanced motorsport engineering degrees, targeting the racing and performance industries. At the MS-level, students may specialize in studies related to either race vehicle...
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Envirofit is clearing the air and saving fuel in the Philippines by retrofitting dirty two-stroke engines with clean, fuel-efficient direct injection technology. Have a story suggestion? Want to be featured on Engineering TV? Send us a tip at: EngineeringTV...