Category Archives: Automotive Technology
Automotive Led Bulbs
by Lower Columbia College
Many types of LED lights are existing for cars that can spin any ordinary-looking van in to a in vogue and popular machine. These are well known as automotive LED lights and advance as headlights, underbody lighting, tail lights and interior lighting. LED is the new technology used in all kinds of lights, either they are military lights or traffic lights. This technology enables the light tubes to devour reduction power and run longer than common halogen bulbs or illuminated light bulbs. Furthermore, these tiny lights do not feverishness up rapidly because many of the appetite used up by them is converted in to light.
As such LED lights for cars are written to be brighter than all other kinds of lights. Under-car lighting kits enable the user to choose a shade from a operation of 2 million colors. Headlights moreover advance in interesting colors similar to white, orange, purple, pink, and blue. The newest designs in this difficulty add right-angle automotive LEDs, backup lights, wedge-based, architecture light, and dashboard automotive lights. Right-angle LEDs can [Read more...]
Automotive Marketing: Boardwalk Maserati
by jeffcutler
The green revolution is catching up on the automobile industry with car companies making fuel consumption a requirement in designing their new car models. Maserati is going green with the redesigned Maserati Quattropole installing downsized a V6 and V8 engines with a stop-start technology that will reduce fuel consumption by as much as 15 percent, a first for a four door luxury car. Boardwalk Auto Group one of the largest luxury car dealerships in the Texas area has the Maserati Quattropole in their Boardwalk Maserati showrooms. Brian Ongaro, the Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Boardwalk Auto Group and their team of sales and technical professionals will give you the information you need about the Maserati brand.
Maserati is the family name of a group of Italian brothers who built and drove winning race cars in the beginning of the 20th century.
The Maserati brothers first worked with the Diatto Company. They developed and raced winning race cars for the Diatto Company. When Diatto decided to stop production of their race cars in the [Read more...]
Automotive Marketing: Boardwalk Volkswagen
by Lower Columbia College
The Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid with its amazing fuel efficiency, turbocharged speed, innovative technology and safety equipment like Electronic Stability Control, anti-lock brakes and six airbags is thinking blue with a green Hybrid car. Brian Ongaro, VP of Sales and Marketing for Boardwalk Auto Group, talks more about the new Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid online. If you want to see the car, visit the Boardwalk Volkswagen showroom at the Boardwalk Auto Group dealership in Richardson, Texas.
Volkswagen has gone a long way since the design and production of a ‘People’s Car’ or ‘Volkswagen’ in the 1930s. Before the war, only wealthy Germans could afford to buy a car and ordinary German citizens got by using bicycles. The German government considered this an opportunity to produce a car every ordinary German family can afford.
The government challenged private companies from the German auto making industry to design and produce a car worth not more than 990 Reischmark or $ 396 in 1930s dollars, and it should be able to fit two adults [Read more...]
Automotive Electronics Technology Will Be A Major Force In Parts And Components Industry -
by WLC Architects Photography
Have statistics show that China’s auto output and sales volume in 2009 expected to reach 13 million. Financial Crisis to the Chinese automotive industry, opportunities and challenges are being data validation. Turn of the year, it will review the year gone are not difficult to find that the Chinese auto industry in 2009 and embarked on a distinct footprint?? At the national automobile and spare parts industry promotion policy planning under the vigorous way.
From the fuel tax adjustment to the car to the countryside, car purchase tax concessions, the Chinese auto market recovery in the; from 13 cities new Energy Auto pilot reform to planning large-scale restructuring of the automotive industry, Chinese auto companies stronger. In the new situation, road vehicles and parts industry has decided the future of the industry. In the just-concluded HC Auto Parts Net “Chinese line” activities, the experts pointed out that the car Electronic Technology innovation will promote China’s new energy era of the automotive industry.
Now people driving [Read more...]
Automotive Garages Versus Mobile Automotive Franchises
by Lower Columbia College
Running an automobile repair shop is not an easy thing to do, there are all kinds of laws that have to do with environmental issues, OSHA standards, and what government bureaucrats consider unsightliness that must be complied with.
Starting such a business right now is probably not a good idea because it could cost as much as a half a million dollars to buy all the lifts, secure a location, hire all the people, and do all the initial marketing. That after one has filed all the permits, gone through all the bureaucracy, and jumped through all the hoops.
This is not to say that owning it on a motor repair shop right now isn’t a good thing, it probably is considering the General Motors and Chrysler has cut so much of their auto dealerships, that it has taken out a lot of capacity out of the industry, and there is so much fewer places to get your car repaired.
Supply and demand dictates that this would be a good business to be in right now, even though the economy is down and people are trying to spend less.
Still when people don’t buy new [Read more...]
Atmel Maxtouch Debut Touch-screen Technology – Atmel, Touch Screen Technology, Automotive
by RDECOM
Announced the complete integration of new capacitive touch screen technology maXTouch, provides advanced touch screen technology, performance significantly. Atmel’s patented capacitive touch technology, combined with optimized and with a touch-sensing function of the AVR microcontroller, which provides unlimited touch features the fastest response time, and capture the highest accuracy.
Atmel plans in September 2009 a comprehensive supply of products based on new maXTouch technology, but now has to major OEM manufacturers from around the world on display. Atmel Microcontroller Business Unit Managing Director and General Manager VegardWollan said: “We have adopted maXTouch customer premises technology design was the initial reaction, greatly exceeded our highest expectations. Many of our phone customers that available in the market than any touch screen phone, maXTouch technology undoubtedly provides a better performance, and better than other suppliers of products and technologies currently available. In addition, it provides the minimum power consumption, while the [Read more...]
Automotive Battery Chargers
Most modern cars are now fitted with a low maintenance battery and these either require little electrolyte topping up and in some cases, none at all. This is a result of advances in automotive technology where alternators ensure that the battery is not subjected to an abnormal voltage charge.
The battery charger that you use in your workshop needs to be as versatile as your vehicle’s charging system to ensure that your battery’s life if not cut short by a defective process.
The big problem encountered with maintenance-free or sealed batteries is gassing, this is where electrolyte is lost as a result of too high a charge. Battery chargers designed to deal with these maintenance-free batteries are referred to as automatic and they cut off the voltage between around 13.8v and 14.5v to prevent gassing taking place.
Some of these automatic chargers allow the battery to be permanently connected, topping up the charge when necessary.
This float charge is very useful when you have a motor caravan or a car that is laid up for a length of time. CTEK and some of the Gunsons range of chargers are designed with this function. These chargers also have reverse-polarity protection with a built in cut-out feature and are supplied with a decent length of [Read more...]
Technological Peak: Efficiency Made Easy in Automotive Shop Software
by sldownard
Rapid increases in technological developments have characterized much of the 21st century. Their spread has left no industry entirely untouched. This technology has increased efficiency, minimized errors and overall increased methods of production in almost every context. Though not automatically associated with technology in all cases, the automotive industry, more specifically automotive shop software is a perfect example of the peak of technological development.
Automotive shop software has multiple purposes in the workplace such as keeping track of and providing repair work orders, tracking customers and their vehicles as well as maintaining their service histories, analyzing productivity, developing estimates and analyzing auto shop profitability. The implication of such software programs have exponentially improved turnaround time for auto repair shop owners in every stage of the process from estimates to completion.
There are a couple qualities that shop owners look for when considering different auto shop software programs available on the market.
Of course price [Read more...]
Tomorrow’s Technology Applied Today In The Automotive Industry
by jeffcutler
With the adage a few small things can change the world, imagine what trillions of particles that are only nanometers wide can do. That is exactly what ferrofluid is and true to the old saying ferrofluid truly can change the world we live in today. Nowhere is this change more apparent currently than in the automotive industry. Due to the excellent ability to perform thermomagnetic convection, this relatively new fluid is revolutionizing the industry in a variety of ways including speakers, seals, and shock absorbers.
First of all however, a brief background of Ferrofluid should be discussed. With a name based off the Latin root ferrum, meaning iron, this substance is typically comprised of particles of magnetite or hematite which contain iron suspended within an organic or water based liquid. When these particles are dispersed using surfactant they allow the base liquid to become colloidal in nature and the coating given by the surfactant process prevents magnetic and Van Der Waals forces from clumping the iron based particles.
The end result is a fluid capable of multiple [Read more...]
Put The Latest Technology To Work With Maha Automotive Lifts
by Lower Columbia College
Automotive engineering is evolving at a record pace. Cars and trucks are no longer just vehicles that get us from Point A to Point B. A car is the sum of its many intricate parts; in order to repair or analyze those parts, you need the latest in automotive lifts from MAHA, one of the lifting industry leaders.
MAHA has been manufacturing automotive lifts for over 40 years. Their standards of excellence in engineering and technology have made them a trusted supplier of automotive lifts for repair shops, service centers and OEMs. Keeping up with the latest automotive lifts technology can actually increase revenue, as well as save money. The proper automotive lifts ensure quality control, whether used in the manufacturing sector, or in service.
When you deal with MAHA, you know the automotive lifts you purchase will be of the highest quality. They also have the largest selection of custom automotive lifts, so you can choose the ones that will best suit your needs. You have your choice of two and four post automotive lifts, as well as specialty, in ground and scissors [Read more...]