| Council recommends rebuilding engines to save consumers money
| | Motor Age | Serious engine trouble can cause real panic to someone who is already facing economic difficulties. By repowering an engine rather than buying a new vehicle, your customers could skip the new car payments ($479 per month on average according to Edmonds.com) and have extra money to help with other bills |
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| Four Seasons offers suggestions on working on Taurus, Sable liquid lines, orifice tubes
| | Motor Age | | Four Seasons recently released guidelines to assist in changing the orifice tubes on 2000 to 2007 Ford Taurus and 2000 to 2005 Mercury Sable vehicles. At first glance, the liquid line looks like one long hose. But, unlike the liquid lines of the 1980s and 1990s, this hose has a fitting in the middle. The orifice tube is located at this fitting. Four Seasons? part number for the orifice tube is 38639. |
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| Ricardo technology improving cost, weight, fuel efficiency in transmissions
| | Motor Age | | Ricardo, an independent engineering firm specializing in total vehicle fuel economy and efficiency, has unveiled a research prototype vehicle that demonstrates the company's patent-pending eAMT electromagnetic linear actuation technology. This technology offers a low cost route to robust and highly efficient Automated Manual Transmission (AMT) and dry Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT) vehicles capable of delivering increased fuel economy and lower emissions. |
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| Delphi, Peterbilt demonstrate unit powering trucks while they're off
| | | Delphi Corporation and Peterbilt Motors Company recently successfully demonstrated a Delphi solid oxide fuel cell auxiliary power unit (APU) powering a Peterbilt Model 386 truck's "hotel" loads. During testing at Peterbilt's Texas headquarters, the Delphi SOFC provided power for the Model 386's electrical system and air conditioning and maintained the truck's batteries -- all while the Model 386's diesel engine was turned off. |
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| Delphi launches new roll-control system
| | Motor Age | | Delphi Corp. is developing a new Active Stabiliser Bar System (ASBS) that it says offers better steering feel, improved vehicle dynamics, superior comfort and greater tuning capability compared with today's technologies. The system is the first to provide continuous across-center control and is 60 percent lighter and around 65 percent more compact than the previous generation system, making it the world's most advanced roll-control technology, according to the company. |
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| Nissan to use solar panels from ICP Solar Technologies
| | Motor Age | | ICP Solar Technologies Inc., a developer, manufacturer and marketer of solar panels and products, has entered into a sales contract with Nissan in Europe and North America for OEM solar charger. A discharged battery is one of the most common problems facing the automotive industry with cars sitting in parking lots for a long period of time in cold or hot conditions, the manufacturer says. |
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