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Infiniti introducing production-ready variable compression ratio engine at Paris Motor Show

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The piston and crankshaft are connected by means of the upper and lower links. The lower link is also connected, via the control link, to the center of the eccentric journal of the control shaft. Nissan, in a 2003 paper, said that its multi-link geometry resolved those previous issues. Croguennec, S. Takahashi, N., Ushijima, K.,

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Japanese officials raid a Toyota group plant after the company admitted cheating on engine testing – ET Auto

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Toyoda spoke in a news conference that was livestreamed from a memorial hall in Nagoya that serves as a museum for the founding family. In 2022, Hino Motors , a truck maker that’s also part of the Toyota group, said it had systematically falsified emissions data dating back as far as 2003. million vehicles.

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Forget the Milano EV – Alfa Romeo changes name to something non-Italian-sounding

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Alfa Romeo CEO Jean-Philippe Imparato said in a news conference today that the company tried to explain why keeping the name Milano was fair play for a list of reasons, one of them being that the car was designed in Italy, but decided the headache was just too much. Things must have gotten a bit hairy.

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Building Better Qubits

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in 2003 she worked at the lab as a research staff member. Her team also is working to find a good way to connect two quantum processors. CONNECTING THROUGH IEEE Riel says she joined IEEE in 2007 so she could contribute to the community, participate in conferences, and connect with other engineers.

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Toyota & Daimler Merging Hino & Mitsubishi Fuso Truck Brands

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From Automotive News : "Behind this collaboration is our four companies' strong desire to create the future of commercial vehicles together," Toyota CEO Koji Sato said at a Tokyo news conference. Hino fell into trouble in March 2022 with the revelation it had been falsifying emissions and fuel economy data dating as far as 2003.

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Radar Imaging Could Be the Key to Monitoring Climate Change

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While attending his second conference, he says, he realized that by not being a member he was “missing out on many important things” such as networking opportunities, so he joined. He has presented all his research at IEEE conferences, and he has published papers in the organization’s journals. “I He received the IEEE Dennis J.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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For the past three months, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had been working together on a problem Kahn had been pondering for some time: how to connect ground-based military computers seamlessly to communications satellites and mobile radios. The first real-world test came in 1975, connecting Stanford to BBN in Cambridge, Mass., universities.

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