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Monthly Archives: June 2014
Hyundai introduces 2015 Sonata Eco with 1.6L Gamma turbo
Hyundai announced the third powertrain available in the 2015 Sonata: the Sonata Eco.
GTL blending could increase overall US refinery efficiency by improving diesel efficiency
A team from Sasol Synfuels, Jacobs Consultancy and Argonne National Laboratory has used results from a US industry-wide linear programming (LP) modeling study of individual US refineries to examine the impacts of a number of significant and looming changes—such as shifts in refinery crude slates; regional and seasonal variation; gasoline/diesel (G/D) production ratio; and GTL diesel blending—on US refinery, unit, and product efficiencies. (LP is the the primary tool for analysis and optimization in the refining industry.)
Toyota implements Atkinson cycle in non-hybrid ESTEC engine
Engineers at Toyota have developed an approach to applying the Atkinson cycle—used in the engines in Toyota hybrids since 1997—for engines in conventional, non-hybrid vehicles.
GM board warned of serious problems by quality manager in 2002
By Marilyn Thompson and Ben Klayman
A former head of General Motors corporate quality audit warned the company’s board in a letter in 2002 that it needed to “stop the continued shipment of unsafe vehicles” and “recall suspect vehicles that were already in customers’ hands.”
