| New BorgWarner technology featured on Chrysler 2009 models
| | Motor Age | The Chrysler 300 and Dodge Charger will offer BorgWarner's new InterActive Torque Management? Transfer Case (ITM? tc) all-wheel-drive (AWD) technology as optional equipment for the 2009 model year. ITM tc offers enhanced response and controllability with reduced noise, vibration and harness (NVH) in a compact, efficient design. |
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| Metal restoration product touts fuel savings through friction reduction
| | Motor Age | | CerMet Lab Company has received a U.S. patent for a nano-particle ceramic conditioner product that restores metal and reduces friction in metal-to-metal environments. The process has proven to significantly improve fuel economy in both diesel and gas-powered engines, as well as provide energy savings in other mechanical devices, according to the company. |
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| MIT, Bosch announce energy collaboration
| | Motor Age | | As part of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), MIT and Bosch have announced a new energy research collaboration aimed at exploring new materials and concepts for efficient energy-conversion and energy-storage systems. |
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| New partnership could offer fleet fuel savings
| | Motor Age
| | Discrete Wireless, Inc. and Link It Software Corporation have formed a strategic partnership designed to offer vehicle and fleet owners a Web-based software tool to reduce fuel consumption by 15 percent or more. |
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| Plug-in Prius prototype put on display
| | Motor Age | | Toyota recently displayed a prototype plug-in Prius hybrid at Legislative Plaza during a field hearing on electric drive vehicles called for by the Congressional TVA Caucus. The prototype Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) enhances the high fuel economy and ultra-low emissions of the popular Toyota Prius production hybrid model with an expanded Nickel-Metal-Hydride battery pack that can be charged by plugging into a standard household electrical outlet. |
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