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Yamaha Motor produces 3 mn Performance Damper since 2004 – ET Auto

Baua Electric

has produced a total of three-million of the Yamaha Performance Damper , an anti-vibration damper for automobiles since its manufacturing began in 2004, the company said. The Yamaha Performance Damper is a vehicle body vibration damper that is installed in the main parts of passenger cars and motorcycles. New Delhi: Yamaha Motor Co.,

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Satellite method provides insight into ozone-NOx-VOCs sensitivity for different locations

Green Car Congress

Both are represented in the study by a major gas of each type, the VOC formaldehyde and NO 2 , that are measureable from space by the Dutch-Finnish Ozone Monitoring Instrument aboard NASA’s Aura satellite, launched in 2004. Volatile organic compounds occur in high volume naturally, given off by some plants, including certain tree species.

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Study: Giant Pickups and SUVs More Dangerous to Pedestrians, Obviously

The Truth About Cars

Crash data accumulated through the 1970s supported this, simultaneously offering additional insights, and it wasn’t long before you saw the government beginning to mandate designs that took pedestrian safety into consideration. The above reads like someone who has just been exposed to automobiles and has zero experience with the industry.

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High Performance Computing key enabler for accelerating development of high efficiency engines

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DNS is a tool for fundamental studies of the micro-physics of turbulent reacting flows and provides full access to time-resolved fields and physical insight into chemistry turbulence. Achievable advances in engine technology can improve the fuel economy of automobiles by over 50% and trucks by over 30%. Sankaran et al.

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Audi highlights its range of electrification efforts; Q7 diesel PHEV, A7 fuel cell PHEV, BEV, 48V and more; 750 Wh/l by 2025

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At the special high-voltage competence center near Ingolstadt, the focus is on the development of complete systems: packaging, cooling, validation and, in partnership with body development, integration into the automobile. Fully refueling with H2 takes around three minutes, roughly the same as with a conventional automobile.

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