Harvesting the Agricultural Engine Market
The agricultural market is one sector of the industry that will always be here, since the production of food is a necessity here, and around the globe.
Banks Power Presents Mickey Thompson Tribute
Four hundred and six-point-six miles an hour (406.6). The fastest speed that an American driver had ever traveled over land in a wheel-driven vehicle. The date was September 9, 1960 and the driver was the legendary Mickey Thompson, racer, designer, builder, dreamer, showman, businessman, and first class hot-rodder.
Special Report: The ABCs of Technical Skill Levels
Sitcom stereotypes are no match for today’s master technician.
Bodyworks: Working on Hybrids: a Body Shop Primer
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Hybrids account for only 1% of all U.S. light-vehicle sales, which actually presents a dilemma for shops: Because hybrids aren’t all that common (yet), shops aren’t as familiar with the potential hazards as they should be.
Engine Series: Stroker Engines — Making Bigger Even ‘Badder’
The only way to get large displacement numbers our of an engine is to “stroke it.”
Special Report: Alternative Fuel – Delphi Team Receives U.S. DOE Funding to Help Lower Cost of Power Electronics for Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Delphi Aims at a 50% Cost and Size Reduction in Electric Propulsion Inverters
Component Connection: A Little Homework Goes a Long Way
A Study in Starter Failures – In the early days of the automobile, starting an engine consisted of first retarding the spark and adjusting the hand choke to optimum fuel mixture. The next step was to pull a cylinder onto compression stroke and “snap” the piston past top dead center with the hand crank. Modern starters, of course, use an electric solenoid to close the circuit between the battery and starter motor and to keep the drive pinion engaged with the flywheel until the engine achieves idle speed.
What Dreams May Come
Opinion Piece by Ed Sunkin, editor Tomorrow’s Technician
“90210” Star to Co-Own IRL Race Team
Former “Beverly Hills, 90210” star Jason Priestley, who was seriously injured in a racing accident in 2002, is co-owner of a new IRL race team.
Real World – MTEC Electrical Technology
One would not think that a group of high school students at a hardscrabble technical school in the heart of West Virginia coal country would be competing in the countrys premier electric vehicle education program, the EV Challenge. Not only are the high school students at the Monongalia County Technical Education Center (MTEC) competing, they