Vehicle equipment

Vehicle equipment

Industry: Automotive

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thermal efficiency

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

The percentage of the heat developed in burning fuel that is actually used to develop power.

traction

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

A situation in which the friction between two surfaces allows them to stick together enough to do useful work.

transducer

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Device that converts variations in one energy form into corresponding variations in another, usually electrical.

transmission electron microscope (TEM)

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

A TEM allows a beam of electrons to interact with atoms of a thin sample (<100 nm), producing information about the sample from transmitted and deflected electrons, backscattered and secondary ...

Machine for generating rotary mechanical power from the energy in a stream of fluid. The energy, originally in the form of head or pressure energy, is converted to velocity energy by passing through ...

turbocharger

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

A turbine driven by exhaust gases that increases engine power by forcing relatively large amounts of air into the cylinders of an engine.

ultracapacitor

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Ultracapacitors are higher specific energy and power versions of electrolytic capacitors—devices that store energy as an electrostatic charge. They are electrochemical systems that store energy in a ...