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Sandia team develops autoignition model designed for efficient, accurate engine simulations

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Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a model for how diesel engines autoignite. Understanding the fundamental processes that produce autoignition can lead to designs that improve engine efficiency and reduce emissions by optimizing the timing and location of ignition.

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Cooperation between Daimler and Renault-Nissan Alliance deepening in 2016

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At the Paris Motor Show, Carlos Ghosn and Dieter Zetsche said that the strategic partnership between the Renault-Nissan Alliance and Daimler AG is maturing as it enters its seventh year in 2016. This means smart is the first brand to offer its entire portfolio with both a combustion engine and also battery-electric drive.

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Constellium joins fracture research consortium led by MIT to improve design of automotive structural components

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The consortium will engage in research to develop and improve modeling and mathematical simulations software designed to predict the behaviors of the structural components during forming and crash—among the most important performance evaluation criteria in automotive engineering. The consortium has secured funding through 2016.

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Former CEO of GM China Group Phil Murtaugh joins Pinnacle Engines board; first engines launch in Asia this year

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Pinnacle Engines, developer of a highly efficient 4-stroke, spark-ignited (SI), opposed-piston, sleeve-valve architecture engine ( earlier post ), named Phil Murtaugh as the newest member of its board of directors. —Ron Hoge, Chairman and CEO of Pinnacle Engines.

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UPS invests in Arrival, orders 10,000 electric delivery vehicles

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The technology is designed to increase safety and operating efficiencies, including the potential for automated movements in UPS depots. Taking an active investment role in Arrival enables UPS to collaborate on the design and production of the world’s most advanced electric delivery vehicles.

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Venturi Formula E racer features electric drive from ZF

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ZF and Venturi teamed up in a technology partnership for the FIA Formula E in 2016. During the three-month break between the last race of Season 4 and the first race of Season 5, ZF’s engineers adopted new approaches that would not be possible in volume production development. Insights for volume production development.

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ORNL team engineers 1st high-performance, two-way oxide catalyst; outperforms platinum; potential for new electrochemistry systems

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Strain engineering in this study has enhanced their performance in both directions, fulfilling the goal of surpassing well-known catalysts such as platinum in bifunctionality. Here, our new discovery further expands the importance of strain engineering TMOs into the electro-chemical realm. Engineering strain. Jonathan R.

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