Rising input costs, tough competition, stringent norms, increasingly diverse customer demands and the ambition of being the world’s largest – overcoming these challenges and achieving the top ...
The transport sector already contributes a large portion of greenhouse gas emissions, and we are expecting the global transport fleet to increase five-fold by 2050. The internal combustion engine ...
The electrification of road transport has gained high priority in the developed economies. Japanese companies have established their lead in Hybrid Electricdrive Vehicles (HEVs), and are now moving ...
This column will discuss the future transportation scenario in India and the technologies to make that happen. Today 60 % of the world's population live in Asia, with India and China contributing ...
New accumulator technologies require adapted, improved or a completely new portfolio of materials. Chemetall, leading producer of lithium, presents different examples of new technologies and their ...
The gasoline direct injection becomes more and more important for small engines used in passenger cars.Lowering injection pressure and thus costs could enable the introduction of this technology in ...
In Asia, the second stage of powertrain development is now underway. After first adopting, and then localising existing systems from the developed automotive world, automotive engineers are now ...
Weight reductions through alternative designs of passenger car chassis are given a particular timeliness: Initiatives of the automobile manufacturers on emission reductions and vehicle concepts – ...
Today, over 90 % of European fuel systems are made in plastic. By producing plastic fuel tanks, the conventional blow-moulding technology has reached its maximum potential. With the Next Generation ...
