A BMW M5 now holds the Guinness World Record for the longest sustained drift after covering more than 82km sideways. The record was set by BMW Performance Centre instructor Johan Schwartz in South Carolina, after he steered an unmodified ...
German automobile manufacturer Daimler has unveiled the new 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class saloon in Hamburg. The new saloon model will be offered in two hybrid versions, a petrol and a diesel variant, including S 400 HYBRID, S 300 BlueTEC ...
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German carmaker Opel has equipped its new 1.6L spark ignition direct injection (SIDI) gasoline engine in its three Astra variants. The new engine comes as a replacement for the previous 1.6L Turbo petrol engine and generates an out put of ...
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Researchers based in China and Sweden have proposed fast chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of graphene as a route to more cost-effective transparent conducting layers (TCLs) for nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Xu Kun et ...
By rotation Cylinder or reel mowers The cylinder mower carries a fixed, horizontal cutting blade at the desired height of cut. Over this is a fast-spinning reel of blades which force the grass past the cutting bar. Each blade in the ...
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The 2013 Chevrolet Traverse has been released in the US with a raft of new safety equipment, headlined by the industry’s first front centre airbag. Designed to provide additional restraint to drivers and front passengers in far-side ...
Trulite's laminated glass is produced in-house at one of our eight manufacturing plants. The process encompasses two or more pieces of glass that are permanently bonded together with a polyvinyl butyral interlayer (PVB) by the introduction ...
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Grenoble-based CEA-Leti (the French government’s Laboratory for Electronics & Information Technology) reckons that Europe is strongly positioned to design and manufacture volume silicon photonics devices because of the success of the ...
Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), says that its DTN and ATN platforms have been ...
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Existing 4G networks for mobile devices still have limited global reach, but that's not going to keep 5G technology waiting in the wings. Samsung announced Monday that?it has developed some transceiver technology that can deliver 5G ...
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Production of the all-new Honda NSX will begin in 2015 at a new $70.8 million performance manufacturing centre in the US. The new Ohio-based facility – located close to where the NSX is being engineered – will exclusively ...
Volkswagen is recalling around 91,000 cars in Japan due to potential problems with the company’s dual-clutch (DSG) automatic gearboxes, less than two months after more than 384,000 cars were recalled in China for a similar issue. A ...
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John Deere lawn tractors and riders have figured prominently in Consumer Reports' mower tests, and this year's Deere lineup—including at least one newly tested winner—shows that the company is responding well to increased ...
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Samsung Electronics says it has successfully tested super-fast fifth-generation (5G) wireless technology that will eventually allow users to download an entire movie in one second. The South Korean giant says the test has witnessed data ...
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Canton, Ohio-based The Timken Company announced Monday the continued expansion of its industrial services capabilities with the acquisition of the Standard Machine business based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Standard Machine provides ...
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