Coolant Pumps Save Fuel for Heavy Trucks
Pumps help reduce emissions, minimalize noise and require no periodic maintenance.
Quality Tools: Digital & Physical
Looking to boost the quality of your designs or on parts being produced? Check out these developments.
Siemens PLM Simplifies Migrating to Broader PLM
A new version of Teamcenter is out. So, too, is an evolving, simplified approach to jump-start companies toward all-encompassing PLM.
Volkswagen Goes Common - But With a Difference
Creating products for its various brands and global markets once meant considerable complexity. So Volkswagen has decided to go common—while providing a considerable amount of flexibility.
Nissan Vows to Commercialize Autonomous Driving by 2020
Nissan Motor Co. says that before the end of the decade, it will develop a commercially viable technology that enables vehicles to drive themselves.
Carsharing Isn’t All It Could Be
“In New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., customers have taken to Yelp to gripe about dirty cars, rude reps, unreturned emails, last-minute changes and overall lousy service,” writes Joan Voight in a recent piece in Adweek on the subject of Zipcar, primarily, and other car-sharing services supportively.
Korea Tests System to Charge Electric Buses in Motion
South Korea is testing an inductive system that uses power lines embedded in the roadway to charge electric buses wirelessly as they travel along their routes, The Wall Street Journal reports.
EPA: Our Fuel Economy Test Is Accurate for Hybrids
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says its test procedure for determining fuel economy is accurate for hybrid powertrains.