Beneath the boxy clothing of each lies a platform and power-train borrowed from one of Honda's more popular saloon cars.
In particular, JCI claims that as new markets emerge for advanced batteries and vehicle power-train technologies evolve, it must have access to multiple alternative technologies and be able to flexibly participate more broadly across the energy storage space.
The researchers examined the prevailing inspection system called On-Board Diagnostics II (OBD-II), which tests for excessive carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and nitrogen oxides, and also checks the power-train systems for problems that might eventually lead to elevated emissions levels.
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So it comes down to this: if half the increase in efficiency demanded by the new CAFE requirements is to come from further improvements in the power-train, then the other half will have to come from reductions in a vehicle's weight.
Saddled with out-of-date factories, over-reliance on the North American market and unfashionable trucks, a poor reputation for quality, a dearth of new models in the pipeline and insufficient resources to fund future power-train development, Chrysler is too weak and too small to survive on its own.
They'd lived through more than one "revolutionary" power train--Wankel engines, gas-turbine engines, batteries.
He also saw the need to modernise our infrastructure in order to catch up with the rest of Europe - everything from high-speed train networks and motorways to nuclear power plants and high-speed internet access.
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They sell power-generation equipment and aircraft and train engines.
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Mosley, 69, said one of the areas where costs could be reduced was the "drive-train" - the group of components that generate power and transfer it to the track, including the engine and gearbox.
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