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Honda begins production of 2023 Honda CR-V Hybrid in North America

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The CR-V hybrid features a new two-motor hybrid system produced at Honda’s Ohio Transmission Plant (TMP-O), and a newly refined Atkinson-cycle engine unique to hybrid models that is made at the Anna Engine Plant (AEP), also in Ohio.

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Vaporized Foil Actuator Welding technique from OSU uses 80% less energy and delivers bonds 50% stronger; joining dissimilar materials

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Engineers at The Ohio State University have developed a new welding technique—Vaporized Foil Actuator Welding (VFAW)—that consumes 80% less energy than a common welding technique, yet creates bonds that are 50% stronger. We can design metals with intricate microstructures, but we destroy the microstructure when we weld.

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How did the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program do in its first full year? – Charged EVs

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The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program (NEVI), part of the Inflation Reduction Act, has made $5 billion in federal funding available to build public EV charging stations. Ohio celebrated the opening of the first NEVI-funded station in December, and New York followed soon after.

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Schaeffler supplying modular hybrid transmission to 2020 Ford Explorer, Ford Police Interceptor Utility and Lincoln Aviator

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Explorer Limited Hybrid features a specially designed liquid-cooled lithium-ion battery built into the chassis below the second-row seats to preserve the cargo and passenger space that helped make it such a popular vehicle with families. With the hybrid option, Lincoln Aviator Grand Touring combines a twin-turbocharged 3.0L

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Simulation study suggests ORC waste heat recovery system could deliver potential 7% improvement in fuel consumption in a PHEV on highway

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The analysis used the Ohio State University EcoCAR, a student prototype PHEV, as the basis for the preliminary fuel economy evaluation. They then designed a quasi-static thermodynamic model of an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) optimized to fit the prototype vehicle. Exhaust gas exergy map of EcoCAR engine.

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EcoCAR 2 winner OSU wins year one of North American EcoCAR 3 competition

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As part of the EcoCAR 3 Competition, each university team chose a different innovation that they will incorporate into their competition vehicle. The majority of this contribution is software, stressing the design emphasis of the program’s first year. Earlier post.) Each team will receive their 2016 Camaro this fall.

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Series production of next-generation Acura NSX hybrid supercar begins in April at new Performance Manufacturing Center

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The PMC is constructing the Acura supercar entirely in-house and, like the NSX itself, is a clean-sheet development—a manufacturing facility designed around the NSX’s unique Multi-Material Body and aluminum-intensive space-frame design and optimized for low-volume production of high-performance specialty vehicles.

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