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Oil companies “break the circle”! Total Energy to build tens of thousands of charging piles in China

Setec Powerr

When “replacing oil with electricity” has become a trend, the transportation industry has maintained the era of fuel oil for hundreds of years, but it is also undergoing subversive changes. The automobile industry has been developed for more than 200 years, and the use of petroleum as fuel has dominated most of the time.

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Quadrant CMS plastics/metal hybrid technology saves weight in airbag assemblies with integrated lead frames

Green Car Congress

The overmolding process is carried out fully automatically in a purpose-built manufacturing cell at the main QCMS plant in Tielt, Belgium. During development, the metal part within the plastics part was shown to induce additional stresses during the deployment; these were eliminated using FEM analysis and design changes.

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