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Road Test: 2023 McLaren GT

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Unassuming Speed McLaren lets you know right away the GT is a serious driver’s car—the carbon fiber steering wheel is void of all buttons and controls for the audio, telephone and cruise control—meaning serious driving ahead. The roof with a fixed glass panel slopes to the carbon fiber deck lid with a window over the 14.8

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Huntington Ingalls delivers 900-ton carbon composite deckhouse for new destroyer

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The 900-ton deckhouse—made almost exclusively using cored composite construction processes—provides an advanced structure to house the ship’s bridge, radars, antennas and intake/exhaust systems and is designed to provide a significantly smaller radar cross-section than any other ship in the current fleet.

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DOE to issue FY14 Vehicle Technologies program-wide funding opportunity announcement

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Integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) development of carbon fiber composites for lightweight vehicles. Possible areas of interest for technology to improve fuel efficiency include: Development of high-performance low-temperature catalysts for exhaust aftertreatment.

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SEAT pushes forward with CNG line-up

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Plus, the maintenance costs of the TGI models are similar to those of traditional combustion engine vehicles. TGI EVO benefits from a third high-strength steel CNG tank, to add to the two new composite carbon fiber tanks located under the trunk floor. The new SEAT Leon 1.5 The three tanks’ total capacity is 17.3

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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

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Demonstrate the joining of steel to aluminum and aluminum to carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites using the existing spot welding infrastructure. Develop new coating and adhesives that enable carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic/aluminum closure panels and validate corrosion testing methods. Federal funding.

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DOE to award $55.8M for advanced vehicle technologies; $35M for fuel cell and hydrogen

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Area of Interest (AOI) 3: Body-in-White Joining of Carbon Fiber Composites to Lightweight Metals (Aluminum, Advanced High Strength Steel, or Magnesium) at Prototype Scale for High-Volume Manufacturing. Preference will be given to applications with technologies that minimize reliance on exhaust after-treatment systems.

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Road Test: 2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe 3LT

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If you order the performance exhaust or go for the Z51 package, those numbers go up to 495 and 470. With a twist of a couple latches off comes the removable carbon fiber roof, letting in the open air. The LED tail lights sit wide above the two sets of dual chrome exhaust tips, making for an almost menacing look.