The Ford Motor Company and automotive components specialist, Schaeffler have unveiled a Ford Fiesta-based 'eWheelDrive' car, a driveable research vehicle that could lead to improvements in urban mobility and parking by making possible smaller, more agile cars.
ABB has launched an online tool called ‘Optimizer’ that makes it easier than ever to select motors to meet different minimum energy performance standards (MEPS).
Where does 2012 leave the European variable speed drives (VSD) market? Steve Brambley, deputy director of Gambica and convener of the organisation’s VSD group, looks at the last five years and gazes into his crystal ball to determine what the next five years may hold for the sector.
Scottish based business Clyde Space, is exploring new and exciting opportunities using Nano-satellites controlled by brushless dc motors. The company's UKube-1 is the UK’s first CubeSat mission and Scotland’s first satellite. It was launched via a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket last month from the Baikonur Cosmodrone in Kazakhstan.
In January 2013, a paper was published by two petroleum engineers from Curtin University (Australia) and Imperial College London (UK) which investigated how the action of tides can affect oil and water saturations in the capillary transition zone.