How vehicle electrification impacts electrical system design
your drivers might say a truck needs “more power.” Before acquiescing to user requests, do the math in terms of gross vehicle weight and payload, type of drive cycle and road conditions, and what powertrain is really going to be best suited for the...
Based on where springs are located on a car — i.e., between the wheels and the frame — engineers often find it convenient to talk about the sprung mass and the unsprung mass. Springs: Sprung and Unsprung Mass The sprung mass is the mass of the vehicle supported on the springs, while...
Theignition system(Figure 6) produces a high-voltage electrical charge and transmits it to the spark plugs viaignition wires. The charge first flows to adistributor, which you can easily find under the hood of most cars. The distributor has one wire going in the center and four, six or e...
I’d bet money that none of them has ever crashed a bus (or any other vehicle) into an overpass. The “crack” of that clipboard was surely a heart-pounding lesson that they’d never forget. They said as much during our debriefing at the end of the day. A good lesson to learn, ...
Thankfully, determining the correct tire size for your vehicle is relatively simple. All the information you need is immediately available either in your owner's manual or somewhere on the vehicle itself. Already know how to read tire size numbers? Skip the explanation and find the rightBridgesto...
A vehicle's center of gravity significantly impacts its driving dynamics; here we explain how to measure this critical data point.
group people in one vehicle, and it guarantees all riders their seats and mutual isolation. To make it come true, the government and operators limit the vehicle load rate to less than 50%, and the passengers in the vehicles must wear masks and are forbidden to sit next to each other. ...
s passive alarm is only triggered when a door or trunk/front trunk is opened while the car is locked. Tesla owners are also known to be affluent, chances are they have left some sort of valuable in the vehicle. In short, Teslas are an easy target to break into, and to find ...
Military commanders use tactics and strategy in combat to inflict as much damage on the enemy while trying to risk as few personnel and resources as possible. This principle was at the heart of the development of the RQ-1 and MQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, commonly referred to as Pr...