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DOE to Award $187M to 9 Projects to Improve Vehicle Efficiency for Heavy-Duty Trucks and Passenger Vehicles

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These projects will receive more than $115 million in funding to develop and demonstrate systems-level fuel efficiency technologies by 2015, including improved aerodynamics, reducing engine idling technologies, waste heat recovery to increase engine efficiency, advanced combustion techniques, and powertrain hybridization. 38,831,115.

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BorgWarner suggests Valve-Event Modulated Boost system can offer 6-17% fuel economy benefit over already downsized and turbocharged engines

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Turbo boost can be controlled by changing the timing of the exhaust valves—no waste gate is required. SUV/Minivan) compared to about 5% with conventional cylinder deactivations, and about 7.2% In testing, BorgWarner observed fuel consumption improvements of 2% at low speeds to 12% at high speeds with VEMB, according to Thomas.

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Chrysler Group files S-1 for IPO; snapshot of R&D priorities; exploring a light-duty hydraulic hybrid

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CHrysler’s current research efforts include various strategies to warm engines and transmissions faster; to have the vehicles run at an ideal set point; and to recapture waste heat. Chrysler started manufacturing its first production EV in late 2012, the FIAT 500e, with limited sales to US consumers.

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Top 10 Cash providers for Junk car Removal in Arizona

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One of the best things about our process is that we do not waste any of your time. US Junk Cars accepts all vehicles, including trucks, cars, sports utility vehicles, vans and minivans. Junk Car Medics What they is this – Phoenix’s best parts, so why waste time with a broken-down or junk car? How Do You Get Paid ?

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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In the late 1960s, it even garnered the passing attention of Congress as a prime example of the waste of government funds (much of Zadeh’s research was being funded by the. Leisure activities Portrait photography (has photographed U.S. I think it is better to be visible and provocative than to be bland.”. Lotfi Zadeh.

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Thankful To Be Home — And ALIVE!

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At exactly at 11:15 on the nose, a Honda Odyssey minivan pulled to a stop in front of me – the side door opened and a young voice belonging to someone inside said “Put this on, and get inside.” ” – a hand reached out of the backseat holding a Trader Joe’s shopping bag.

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New analytic framework quantifies benefits of taxi ride-sharing: cut in cumulative trip length by 40% or more

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It comes at great monetary and human cost: in the 83 largest urban areas of the United States alone, the amount of wasted time and fuel caused by congestion has been placed at US$ 60 billion. Vehicular traffic congestion—and the air pollution that results from it—is one of the greatest challenges facing cities all over the world.

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