General Motors opens new powertrain engineering center that will create E-Flex
On Friday GM officially kicked off use of its new Powertrain Engineering Development Center in Pontiac MI. The new $463 million facility includes 120 dynamometer test cells for exercising all manner of new drivetrains. Among those cells 20 are specifically dedicated to testing motors for electric and hybrid drive systems. Others are split among fueled and non-fueled cells for testing gas, diesel, and flex-fuel engines and transmissions respectively. A new quick connect pallet system allows technicians to assemble a test configuration outside the cell and then have it installed and running within 20 minutes. The photo above showse a technician connecting the 1.4L engine and generator combination that will serve as the Chevy Volt range extender.
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a.brien 11:44AM (7/28/2008)
These big compagnies have the tools needed and the engineers
to really invent something new like an internal combustion engine
powered by a water electrolyser and yet just some few people like daniel dingel have succeeded in their backyard to made some.
They are over-conservative and cannot invent something because if one engineer have one new idea he have to explain
it to 30 other engineer and it's a that step that he can be judge
an heretic. A scary step to cross, explain a new idea to someone that need to have a job. It can cause death. That's why the best technologies are seen on youtube by backyard inventors. But to put something on the market for real it take a lot of conventionnal workers like engineer, technicians, marketer, staff of all sort.
But wait there's a new way, internet car customers ordering the big corporations what they want.
I want an hydrogen car power by a water electrolyser like genepax car compagny.
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BillySharps 4:53PM (7/28/2008)
Based on your comment here and your comment in the FCX Clarity post, you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.
Perhaps you could explain what energy water contains and how to extract it?
Throwback 12:45PM (7/28/2008)
Then buy one from genepax.
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retro77 3:39PM (7/28/2008)
Hopefully this will help the GM monster turn around.
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