Transport The world is smaller today than it has ever been before. We can move anything anywhere with the greatest of ease and it's only getting better. Your competition is no longer just down the road, it's all over the world and we're always finding better ways to transport things.
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
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Vern Raburn, founder, president and CEO of Eclipse Aviation (Booth 9463) announced Monday that the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security approved the export of the Eclipse 500 VLJ and aircraft components to Russia. Complementing U.S. approval, Canada's Export and Import Control Bureau authorized the export of Pratt & Whitney Canada's PW610F turbofan, the engine that powers the Eclipse 500, to Russia. The two approvals pave the way for Russia to construct an assembly facility for Eclipse 500 VLJ aircraft destined for Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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Friday 23 May, 2008 10:35 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
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Group Lotus plc , the world famous sportscar manufacturer and globally renowned automotive engineering consultancy, announces the creation of Lotus Lightweight Structures, following the acquisition of Holden Lightweight Structures Limited.
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Friday 23 May, 2008 06:32 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
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A newly formed company, Liberty Electric Cars Ltd , is investing £30 million in the re-engineering of large luxury cars and 4x4s into electric vehicles. The company will design and manufacture a unique electric drivetrain platform to power a wide range of large vehicles, which it says will have the flexibility to incorporate emerging technologies.
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Friday 23 May, 2008 12:46 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by David Singh
BERLIN, GERMANY - Bombardier Transportation and Transmashholding today announced that they have signed an agreement to establish a new joint venture to develop a new family and new generation of locomotives using asynchronous propulsion technology.
The agreement was signed at the Third International Rail Business Forum in Sochi, by Wolfgang Tolsner, Chief Operating Officer, Bombardier Transportation, and Andrey Andreev, acting General Director, ZAO "Transmashholding", in the presence of the President of OAO "Russian Railways" (RZD) Vladimir Yakunin. Bombardier Transportation is the global leader in the production of electric locomotives. Transmashholding is the major supplier of rolling stock for the Russian railways.
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Thursday 22 May, 2008 10:29 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by David Singh
The word drifting from Detroit is that General Motors' Saturn division is on the line: Show some signs of success or be set aside to die.
This does not mean an announcement that General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people ) is killing the Saturn brand. GM's present managers have had more experience wrecking car brands than building them, and they learned an expensive and painful lesson when they discontinued Oldsmobile. No, the new strategy is to starve a car line of new product until the business just disappears.
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Wednesday 21 May, 2008 02:38 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
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I come from a long line of Europeans - illiterate, mud-eating Europeans from the Outer Hebrides, to be exact, whose idea of a good time was to go down to the firth and watch the plague victims wash out to sea. Even so, I've always had an affinity for the Continent. Between New Orleans and Amsterdam, I prefer Amsterdam. I'll take Rousseau over Jefferson, Beck's over Budweiser, and Formula One over NASCAR.
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Sunday 18 May, 2008 10:27 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
Sitting on a shelf inside the Toronto headquarters of racing bike company Cervelo , looming above nine assiduous engineers watching the Giro d'Italia race via Internet as they work, is a bicycle frame once used by famous Swedish cyclist Magnus Backstedt and made by storied Italian manufacturer Bianchi.
Why would they place a competitor's bike on a pedestal? Because it's not a Bianchi at all. It's a Cervelo, camouflaged in Bianchi colours, branded with the Bianchi name.
Backstedt was riding for an Italian pro-cycling team sponsored by Bianchi. But he couldn't find a bike that felt right for him, except in Cervelo, recounts Chris Leiphart, Cervelo's head of aerodynamics. Since Backstedt couldn't be seen riding a Cervelo, they got creative, and came up with bicycle cross-dressing.
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Sunday 18 May, 2008 08:25 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
Airbus president and CEO Paul Enders has apologised for the inconvenience to the company's customers caused by the latest delay in deliveries of the A380 Superjumbo.
He stated that, in a review of the A380 programme the company had ascertained that, although a lot of progress had been made over the last 18 months, "we cannot avoid further incremental delay in [production] ramp-up in 2008/9".
Airbus now plans to deliver 12 A380s this year, instead of 13. Deliveries in 2009, will number 21 instead of 25. Details about production ramp-up and deliveries in 2010, and subsequent years, will be discussed with customers in the coming weeks.
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Friday 16 May, 2008 12:24 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
ON Tuesday, at Nissan’s headquarters in Tokyo , Carlos Ghosn will present the next five-year plan for the carmaker that is vying to be Japan’s second largest. Ghosn will say he has looked into the future — and it is electric.
In a business under growing environmental pressure and beset by the ever-rising cost of oil, Nissan regards its commitment to the commercialisation of electric cars as the most important development in the industry.
It sees potential for boosting sales of conventional cars in Russia, China, India and South America, but regards the car markets in Europe and Japan as essentially static and predicts further weakening of sales in North America. Hence the emphasis on electric.
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Monday 12 May, 2008 10:39 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
With British performance car brands being sold to overseas interests left, right and centre, it seems it's up to enthusiasts to create the next truly British supercar. And after an 8-year development process, here it is: the Keating SKR and its racetrack-only TKR brother offer continental good looks, lightweight snappy handling and stonking power, from 400hp on the base model to a ridiculous projected 1500hp for the twin-turbo top dog. With sensible service intervals and a bespoke approach to supercar-building, Keating hopes to rekindle the British performance auto industry. Tally ho!
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Monday 12 May, 2008 06:07 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
Tesla. Fisker. Th!nk. Loremo . Mindset. Not the nameplates you expect to see when you go car shopping? Give it a few years, and these names may well be above Chevy and Toyota on your list.
The Wall Street Journal explains, "Spurred by the belief that the market for fuel-efficient vehicles is about to take off, a slew of tiny car companies is springing up in Europe and the U.S." The companies "are racing to produce the next 'green' car, betting that soaring demand will allow them to survive alongside the giants of Detroit, Stuttgart and Tokyo." Most are less than a year old, "and have financial backing from venture-capital firms," and engineers and designers who cut their teeth creating new cars for "the likes of Germany's Volkswagen AG and storied U.K. racecar builder McLaren."
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Sunday 11 May, 2008 10:00 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Peter Wu
Matthew Doude walks around in the mid-sized sports utility vehicle in his showroom in northeast Mississippi, pointing out the electric motor under the back cargo area and the PC found in the dash.
He casually points out it gets 38 miles per gallon and runs on B20 biodiesel or standard diesel fuel
Wearing a pair of blue jeans and T-shirt, Doude sits in the driver’s seat and demonstrates how to use wireless Internet and MP3 player on the built-in hard drive of the front display. He points to the dashboard display of the vehicle’s battery charge and average fuel economy.
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Thursday 8 May, 2008 10:00 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
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Part 1 It’s official: At $4.20 a gallon in some areas , gas costs more than a cup of the fancy stuff at Starbucks. That's why Cars.com has revisited its ongoing look at the real-world gas mileage today’s cars are getting. In our last mileage challenge, we took an SUV, a minivan and two sedans on a highway trip around Illinois and Wisconsin, and we concluded that the cars’ EPA highway ratings were easy to achieve. This time around, we wrangled four hybrids — two SUVs, one sedan and one hatchback — and their renowned ability to return extraordinary city mileage numbers to see if they could handle everything Chicago could throw at them.
....click the link to read more Part 2 Yesterday, we introduced the four fuel-sippers — a Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid, Ford Escape Hybrid, Honda Civic Hybrid and Toyota Prius — we schlepped through Chicago traffic early this month . We took pains to drive as we normally would: No nursing the gas pedal to stay in electric mode or purposely coasting to regenerate more braking energy. Just ordinary stop-and-go driving. Faced with some wonky fill-up numbers at a gas pump on the fritz, we took our results from each vehicle’s onboard mileage readout, which we reset at the beginning of each new leg. Read below for the numbers, along with some postgame analysis. ....click the link to read more
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Thursday 8 May, 2008 10:02 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
Wichita, KS - Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. company, completed first flight of its Citation CJ4 business jet prototype today.
“It was an outstanding first flight,” said Cessna Senior Engineering Test Pilot Dan Morris, who flew the aircraft with Engineering Flight Test Manager Dave Bonifield as co-pilot. “We tested quite a number of the systems on the aircraft, including the autopilot, and all performed very well. The FADECs operated just as we expected, and along with the four displays of the Pro Line 21, this is a very pilot-friendly aircraft. Operators will transition easily into the CJ4.”
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Wednesday 7 May, 2008 06:25 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
SriLankan Airlines has become one of the few organisations in the world to have carried out an important mandatory modification for engines on the Airbus A340, one of the world’s most widely used aircraft.
SriLankan Engineering , the aircraft engineering arm of SriLankan Airlines, is now carrying out modifications on the CFM-56 engines of SriLankan’s own fleet of A340’s in its aircraft engineering facilities at Bandaranaike International Airport.
A M Ariyasena, Base Maintenance Manager, said: “SriLankan Airlines is one of only seven aircraft maintenance organisations in the world to have performed this modification, which is a considerable achievement that our national carrier and our country can be proud of. The other institutions are in Europe, Canada and Hong Kong. We are also achieving a significant cost saving for the airline, and conserving foreign exchange by carrying out the work in Sri Lanka.”
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Tuesday 6 May, 2008 10:08 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
A technology blossoms when the timing is right.
The first patent for a gasoline/electric car was sought in 1905 by U.S. engineer H. Piper. The electric motor augmented the gas engine's meager acceleration. But gas engines became powerful enough on their own so it took until 1999, amid rising gasoline prices, for hybrid Honda Insight appear.
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Monday 5 May, 2008 10:09 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
You only need to look at some of the latest design concepts being paraded about to know that the proliferation of rockcrawling competitions and the exotic creations they've spawned are already having a profound impact on the off-road world. Tube frames, huge tires, and boat-tailed rear ends are design elements that have already found their way out of the rocks and onto the designer's drawing board. As the extreme competitions gain more exposure to a wider enthusiast market, those design influences are likely to become even more pronounced.
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Sunday 4 May, 2008 08:02 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
SAN FRANCISCO - General Motors Corp Chief Executive Rick Wagoner said Thursday the No. 1 U.S. automaker had not hit any obstacles yet that would force it to delay the planned 2010 launch of its plug-in hybrid, the Chevrolet Volt.
"So far we're on schedule," said Wagoner, who was speaking to reporters after a speech to a San Francisco-based public affairs organization.
Wagoner, who had earlier suggested GM's target of launching the electric vehicle could slip, said key work on battery development for the new car was progressing well.
"Our optimism is building," he said.
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Friday 2 May, 2008 06:24 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Barot Casha
Car safety is high on the EU agenda . Over the years, carmakers have been developing mainly engineering systems with an array of gadgets and features to make driving a safer and more enjoyable experience. Now, with € 2.6 million in EU funding, the DIPLECS project will bring together researchers, including Dr David Windbridge of the University of Surrey, to develop a cognitive system that protects both drivers and pedestrians
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Wednesday 30 April, 2008 02:04 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
"'Solar Impulse', the Swiss solar-powered aeroplane project, was presented today to the European Parliament in Brussels within the framework of the 'Towards a more sustainable aviation' seminar organised by Mrs Christine de Veyrac, a Member of the European Parliament. The Vice-President of the European Commission with responsibility for Transport, Mr Jacques Barrot, publicly announced the European Commission’s patronage of the 'Solar Impulse' project, in the presence of Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, President and CEO of Solar Impulse, respectively.
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Monday 28 April, 2008 06:08 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
Invicta has evolved from Buick concepts such as the 2004 Velite convertible and 2007 Riviera coupe, both of which were based on modern adaptation of classic Buick themes.
Invicta was designed and engineered collaboratively by GM centers of expertise in Warren, Mich. and Shanghai, China.
The name, which is Latin for “invincible”, returns to Buick after a 45-year hiatus in the United States.
“Buick's global appeal created an opportunity for GM Design Centers to elevate our collaboration to new levels.
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Monday 28 April, 2008 10:06 AM |
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