Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Ericsson and Scania are partnering in joint research efforts to accelerate the connectivity of commercial vehicles and infrastructure. Ericsson and Scania are convinced that advances in communications technologies and future deployments of 5G networks will enable improvements in the transport of people and cargo. New developments in LTE and future 5G standardization have created opportunities for dedicated vehicle-to-vehicle communications using the mobile network while minimizing risks of unpre

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

When news of Volkswagen's use of illegal "defeat device" software in its TDI diesel cars broke back in September, it was assumed the ensuing scandal would negatively impact diesel sales. The public's trust in diesel was obviously shaken, and Volkswagen's cessation of diesel sales removed a large number of models from the equation. And sure enough.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

TriboForm Engineering , a spin-out from the University of Twente in The Netherlands, introduced its TriboForm software at Triboforum 2016 , a triennial industry conference. Tribology is a branch of mechanical engineering that describes the contact between materials under different conditions. In metal-forming processes, tribology plays a key role through the relative motion and interaction between the applied sheet material, the lubrication and the tooling.

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