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BMW Group Production leveraging virtual reality and augmented reality applications

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BMW Group Production is focusing increasingly on easy-to-use and effective virtual (VR) and augmented (AR) reality applications. AR-based training at the BMW Group Production Academy: engine assembly. Target/actual comparisons in operations. In AR applications, illustrations complement real images. Workstation planning.

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BMW provides an update on waste heat recovery projects; Turbosteamer and the Thermoelectric Generator

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Finding ways of recovering this lost heat energy has been one of the major goals being pursued by engineers working on BMW EfficientDynamics for the future. Research project Turbosteamer: comparison of the heat exchanger generation 1 (top) and generation 2 (bottom). Despite improvements in engine efficiency—e.g., Turbosteamer.

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BMW Provides Update on ActiveHybrid X6

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Output and torque diagrams, BMW ActiveHybrid X6. BMW has provided some additional detail on its two-mode ActiveHybrid X6, as well as updating some of the figures released for the introduction of the production model at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. The ActiveHybrid X6 arrives in US BMW Centers in the fourth quarter.

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Europe’s biggest EV market is about to hit a perfect storm of problems

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For comparison, the US produced 1.1 Electrek’s Take The caveat here, too, is that VDA is a lobbyist group for German automakers, powered by stalwarts BMW, Volkswagen, and Mercedes, which are in a tight position as they struggle to adapt to EVs and keep pace with China’s BYD and Tesla. million BEVs in 2023 to Germany’s 1.2

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Visio.M researchers develop lightweight torque vectoring transmission for EVs; improved regen, better dynamics

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Normally, brakes convert kinetic energy into heat. Recuperation systems instead convert energy tapped from the wheel into electrical energy. Using a small (in comparison to the drive motor) electric torque vectoring machine they can generate a large yaw moment at any speed to achieve the desired road handling dynamics.

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455 hp 2014 Corvette Stingray to deliver EPA-estimated 29 mpg highway

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As one comparison, the Porsche 911 Carrera S delivers 400 hp, and an EPA-estimated 27 mpg highway from its 3.8L, horizontally opposed 6-cylinder engine plus 7-speed transmission. H-6) offers 30 mpg and 275 hp, while the BMW Z4 sDrive28i delivers 241 hp and 34 mpg highway from its 2.0-liter, For example, the Porsche Cayman (2.7L

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XL1 dive and drive: Volkswagen aggressively optimizes for efficiency in its sleek diesel plug-in hybrid

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Comparison of electric drive fuel consumption (kWh/100 miles). By comparison, a Volkswagen Polo is slightly longer (156.3 The power electronics system manages the flow of high voltage energy to and from the battery or electric motor and converts direct current to alternating current. Data: Volkswagen, US EPA and DOE.

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