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Toyota Rumored to Debut Performance Automatic Transmission for GR Models Next Month

The Truth About Cars

This may just be more publicized speculation from Japan’s Magazine X. Unlike a standard automatic transmission, Toyota’s GR-DAT units are supposed to minimize slippage of the torque converter. The torque converter comes with a hydraulic circuit and lock-up clutch that’s supposed to transfer energy to the gears more efficiently.

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This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

Cars That Think

The pressurized-water plant provides electricity to the majority of the state’s businesses and residents and to customers beyond Arkansas. She was inspired by her parents, who worked in biology, and by her reading of physics journals and engineering and science magazines. She ensures the facility meets design standards and regulations.

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A closer look at why heat pumps are dominating EV HVAC systems

Charged EVs

If you want to heat up a space that is cold, there are a number of options, from burning a fuel to directly converting electricity into heat (i.e. If you want to heat up a space that is cold, there are a number of options, from burning a fuel to directly converting electricity into heat (i.e.

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. They reality always seems to be just a few years away, the magazine complained. John Waters, the CEO of Bright Automotive, is a veteran of Detroits auto industry, just like most of the Bright team.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

It’s also got a state of the art in-wall vacuuming system but it’s got no solar panels or solar hot water because that wasn’t part of the builders vision for their “dream house.&#. I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs.

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The2001 NESEA American Tour de Sol TheWinston Solar Challenge World Solar Challenge :solar cars across Australia {Returnto top of page} EV Manufacturersand Converters ACPropulsion Inc. Battery chargers and DC/DC converters. Battery chargers and DC/DC converters. Nuts& Volts Magazine : For the serious gadgeteer.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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In 1977, he wrote an article for Kilobaud: The Small Computer Magazine describing the “Sublogic Three-Dimensional Micrographics Package” he had created, which brought 3D to microcomputers outfitted with the popular Motorola 6800 microprocessor. “It Artwick was right. In 1993, Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.0 Textures offered new details.

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