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US DOE awards more than $175M to 40 projects for advanced vehicle research and development

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Eaton Corporation. This project will optimize fuel-based control of novel combustion strategies in light- and heavy-duty vehicles to enable diesel-like efficiencies with ultra-low engine-out emissions. valve train vs. bearings). The Regents of the University of California, Riverside. 914,551.

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MIT team develops semi-autonomous system as ‘intelligent co-pilot’ for cars

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Researchers at MIT have developed a new semi-autonomous safety system for cars that allows a driver to control the vehicle, only taking the wheel when the driver is about to exit a “safe zone”. Benjamin Saltsman, manager of intelligent truck vehicle technology and innovation at Eaton Corp., (who

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