General Motors engineers are planning to use material used in diaper to simulate snow year round to maximize the heating capabilities of its cars. GM Vehicle Thermal Systems engineer Nicholas Jahn found out that sodium polyacrylate in ...
Tags: Vehicle Heating, windshield defrosting, Auto
Audi has commenced testing of A7 concept car fitted with self-driving gear on a 550-mile piloted drive from San Francisco Bay to Las Vegas, which will be showcased at the CES 2015 (Consumer Electronics Show). The A7 concept uses ...
Tags: vself-driving gear, lane changes, Auto
Automotive suppliers will quality check more than 300 million airbag-inflator systems using sophisticated helium- and hydrogen-based leak-detection technology in 2015. Frontal airbags have reduced fatalities in frontal crashes by up to 25 ...
Tags: Detection Technology, Airbag, Auto
Bosch is launching an advertising campaign featuring Weather Channel Meteorologist Jim Cantore for its Icon wiper blades. Robert Bosch LLC has signed Weather Channel Meterologist Jim Cantore as the latest spokesman for Bosch Icon wiper ...
Recently, Mr. Zhongyu Shi was driving a brand new Volvo Trucks FM460, one of the vehicles in the Anhui Liu An Logistics fleet, down the Outer Ring of Qipu Road in Shanghai at nearly 100 km/hour, with a total weight of 55 tons of the truck ...
Tags: Safe Transportation, Trucks Dynamic Steering System, Transportation
Mitsubishi has unveiled XR-PHEV plug-in-hybrid electric car concept at the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show. The crossover features innovative styling and performance-oriented drivetrain to provide a pleasant driving experience. It is ...
TYLT, a leader in portable power and wireless charging, today revealed two new accessories: the VU Wireless Charging Car Mount, a hands-free car mount that doubles as a wireless charger, and the VU SOLO, a compact single-coil wireless ...
Tags: VU Wireless Charging, hands-free car, Auto
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany says that the headlights on the new Mercedes Benz CLS class of cars are equipped with its Oslon Compact high-power LEDs, which can be arranged very close together in the headlight with a ...
Tags: Compact LEDs, Mercedes Benz
At the Vision Congress in Paris (14-15 October), Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany showcased an LED for car headlights with luminance three times that of existing versions, so that a single LED can be used to provide a ...
Tags: Headlight LED, Single-LED
Ford has received fleet order for 800 low-roof, regular-wheelbase Ford Transit vans from Charter Communications. Charter plans to use the vans for its technicians who will use the vehicles to transport equipment and provide services ...
Tags: Ford, Van, Transit vans
Ford's upcoming F-150 will have aerodynamic features that will give the new pickup truck to make it more fuel efficient. The new F-150 will have a boxy shape and it will be designed to reduce wind resistance. The specially designed edges ...
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Trico Products Corp. has signed a definitive agreement under which Crowne Group LLC will acquire the company from funds managed by Kohlberg & Co. L.L.C. Trico will maintain its headquarters in Rochester Hills, Mich., and the current ...
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VOXX Electronics Corp (VEC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of VOXX International Corp., today announced the Company has entered into a distribution agreement with Guangdong Steelmate Security Co., Ltd (Steelmate) whereby Steelmate will supply ...
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The international automotive supplier Continental is presenting a new evolutionary stage of its head-up display (HUD). The Augmented Reality HUD supplements the exterior view of the traffic conditions in front of the vehicle with virtual ...
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Iveco launched new generation Stralis heavy truck, which is of the most efficient till now, and the truck is welcomed and purchased by many transport companies in the UK. Stralis Hi-Way 6x2 tractor futures double steering apparatus and ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto, Heavy Truck, Truck