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7 Maintenance Tips To Extend the Life of Your Diesel Truck

Clean Fleet Report

7 Maintenance Tips To Extend the Life of Your Diesel Truck. Keep Your Engine Running at Peak Performance. But like all vehicles, a little bit of maintenance is required to keep diesel trucks running at their peak performance. The engine oil is a lubricant that helps it run smoothly. Use the Right Oil. Ford F-150 Diesel.

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New Flyer commissions advanced electric-bus simulator

Green Car Congress

Drivers of the simulator will experience a bus environment with hardware operating just as it would in a zero-emission, battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE transit bus. The effect is full-visibility of the virtual environment, creating a near-identical driving experience complete with tactile sensations reflecting curb and roadside jostling.

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DOE to award $450K to two high performance computing for materials projects

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Vacuum Process Engineering, Inc.’s The project will gain insight into the mechanical lifetime of microchannel heat exchangers (MCHEs). Insights gained from this research will improve design sophistication and reliability of MCHEs. MCHEs are an essential component to several clean energy technologies.

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Renault Group and Atos launch service to collect large-scale manufacturing data and accelerate Industry 4.0

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Easy access to standardized data via simple to use analytical tools and dashboards facilitates and accelerates the deployment of many kinds of use cases (production, maintenance, quality, and energies, etc.), including net zero benefits. to be addressed.

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UT-led team uses high-resolution X-ray computed tomography to determine flaws in rubber

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Imaging with X-rays provides attenuation, phase, or scattering contrast and will prove to be a critical method for evaluating the field of rubber crosslinking, considering realistic environments in situ. UT’s Fred N.

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CMU study finds secondary organic aerosol production from PFI and GDI vehicles has been “substantially” reduced by tightening NMOG standards

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Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) is a major component of fine particulate matter—which causes adverse health effects—even in urban environments; vehicles may be a dominant source of SOA in urban areas, although there is still an ongoing debate over SOA formation from on-road sources. —Zhao et al.

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Missing out on EV Fleet Funding and Getting the Infrastructure Wrong: A How Not-To Guide

EV Connect

million vehicles—have committed to decarbonization targets for public fleets , and bans on Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles are pushing on the supply side. ICE vehicles are dominated by moving parts, and maintenance and repair intervals revolve (pun intended) around replacing fluids.

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