Windsor Conventional Auto Party!

This was happened in the summer 2014 in Windsor. A Conventional cars party on Ojib Parkway. Photos were taken by Yuchen. Even though I do not know all the cars' names since some of them are more than 100 years old, most of then are running well...

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Nissan expands recalls over possibly deadly Airbag failures

WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) -- Nissan Motor Corp. is expanding a recall in high-humidity regions of cars and SUVs suspected of having defective airbag inflators that can shoot metal shrapnel at passengers. The recall now affects almost 53,000 models in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, as well as Puerto Rico, Hawaii, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam,...

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M-B bolsters service with concierge program

Mercedes-Benz has launched a product specialist program for dealerships and aims to train 1,600 employees through the program by the end of next year. Mercedes calls the specialists product concierges. They help customers, lead product clinics, walk the service drive to answer owner questions and train other dealership personnel. Steve Cannon, CEO of Mercedes-Benz USA, said the program aims "to...

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How to conduct a crash test

During recent years the development of new vehicles has to deal with continuously emerging requirements to ensure pedestrian protection as well as improve vehicle damageability and repairability. In low-speed vehicle crashes, vehicles must withstand the crash with minimum damage so that the repair cost incurred remain as low as possible. Vehicle bumper need to fulfill...

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Alex Vetter named new CEO of Cars.com

Alex Vetter has been appointed CEO and president of Cars.com by owner Gannett Co., Cars.com announced today. He replaces longtime president Mitch Golub, who has announced his retirement but is staying on until March. Vetter takes the CEO role from Dan Jauernig, who was CEO of Classified Ventures. That was the company that owned Cars.com until Gannett bought...

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Emissions Control

In a real hydrogen engine intake stoke, air is used as the main oxidation rather than pure oxygen. Therefore, when the temperature in combustion chambers is over 2500°F (1371.1°C), the following reaction could take place [3]. H2 + O2 + N2 = H2O + N2 + Nox Figure 10 [16] illustrates the Nox emission curve related to equivalence ratio (Φ) and the amount of Nox per kilowatt-hour...

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A New Method of Driving Clean---BMW Hydrogen 7

The decreasing of the fossil fuels and the deteriorating of environment has pushed forward study on the utilization of hydrogen as the alternative fuel. Although the first attempt was reported by Reverend W. Cecil as early as 1817, the development of the hydrogen engine began in the 1930s, and was built to a crescendo in 1970s. In the 1930s there were 1000 vehicles which...

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