Vehicle transmissions are moving from six speeds a few years ago to the latest 10-speeds entering the market on a number of cars and light trucks for 2017.
S.S. White Technologies is supplying flexible rotary shafts for the Honeywell Aerospace Air Turbine Starter on the next-gen GE Aviation GE9X high-bypass turbofan engines.
Lucid Motors makes a move on the credibility scale by taking Automotive Engineering for a city-street romp in a prototype of its Air luxury sedan slated for 2018 production.
Dana’s new Spicer® Torque-Hub® brand of wheel drives has delivered performance, durability, and reliability for off-highway vehicles for nearly 50 years. The compact design features a steerable four-wheel-drive configuration ideal for both conventional and electric-driven field sprayers.
Still based on Ford's CD4 platform, the MKZ will pack a Lincoln-exclusive (at least for the short term) twin-turbocharged V6 packing an SAE-rated 400 hp (298 kW) and 400 lb·ft (542 N·m), the new Ford-GM “alliance”-engineered 9-speed automatic, and torque-vectoring AWD driveline.
Aerodynamic experts are cautiously optimistic that a long-awaited leap in vehicle fuel efficiency is advancing toward near-term production: the replacement of the two exterior mirrors with camera-based streaming-vision technology—at no overall cost penalty.