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Paice files complaint against VW Group with ITC alleging hybrid patent infringement

Green Car Congress

The complaint alleges patent infringement by VW, Audi and Porsche and asks the ITC to issue an exclusion order that would prohibit the companies from importing certain hybrid vehicles, including the VW Jetta Hybrid, Audi A3 e-tron Hybrid, Audi Q5 Hybrid, Porsche Cayenne S E-Hybrid, and Porsche Panamera S E-Hybrid.

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Honda Prelude two-door coupe set to return as an electric sportscar

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Square of shape, revvy of engine and at its best with some Maccas trays under its rear wheels, this front-drive coupe legend rightly held icon status on Australian city streets. Then, by 2001, it was gone. Surplus to Honda’s sporting requirements with the Integra Type R and S2000 covering the fun part of its showroom lineup.

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Hackenberg resigns from Audi Board of Management

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The move comes as Volkswagen AG continues to work to address the diesel engine emissions cheating scandal. After graduating in mechanical engineering at Aachen RWTH University, Ulrich Hackenberg was employed as an assistant at the Institute for Motor Transport from 1978 until 1985.

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Zero Motorcycle Engineer’s Bicycle Is Quicker Than Porsche GT3 RS

Green Car Reports

When we visited Zero Motorcycles’ headquarters in Scotts Valley, California to test-ride its 2011 2001 model year electric motorcycles, we got to meet some of the hardworking engineers responsible for ensuring the company remained at the forefront of the electric motorcycle world.

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New 450hp Small Block V8 for 2014 Corvette features direct injection, cylinder deactivation, continuously variable valve timing

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The new Corvette LT1 engine, the first of the Gen 5 family of Small Block engines, combines several advanced technologies, including direct injection, Active Fuel Management and continuously variable valve timing to support a new advanced combustion system with an 11.5:1 —Tadge Juechter, Corvette chief engineer.

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Video Friday: Grav Enhanced

Cars That Think

Flexiv ] A team of engineers has devised a modular system to produce efficient, scalable aquabots. Covariant ] Sure Bak, who worked as an interactive product UX designer at Porsche, currently works on designing HRI (Human-Robot Interaction) at NAVER LABS. It was July 2001. Jorgen Pedersen founded RE2 Robotics.

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U-M study finds current CAFE standards create profit incentive for larger vehicles

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—Kate Whitefoot, now a senior program officer at the National Academy of Engineering. The model incorporates engineering tradeoffs that carmakers consider as well as a wide range of possible consumer preferences. Skerlos (2001) Design incentives to increase vehicle size created from the US footprint-based fuel economy standards.

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