Toyota Advanced Technology Vehicle Display

­Little Tokyo Design Week: Future City announces the Toyota Advanced Technology Vehicle Display. The event will be held this coming July 14-17 in Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, California).

They plan to exhibit the Prius Plug-in, the RAV4 EV battery-electric vehicle and the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Hybrid.

The range of the Prius Plug-in is approximately 13 miles (at speeds up to 60 mph). The compact Lithium-ion battery can be fully recharged quite fast - in 3 hours on 110 volts and 1.7
hours on 220 volts. The best part is that when the EV power is depleted, the Plug-in performs like a
conventional Prius.

Toyota plans to launch the car for sale in the first half of 2012 in the US.

The RAV4 EV is a joint project with aims to develop an electric version of the RAV4 with the intent to bring a RAV4 EV to market in 2012.

Toyota's hydrogen fuel cell hybrid vehicle fleet has logged several million miles since hitting the road in 2002, with significant technological improvements along the way. Toyota's current FCHV-adv
nationwide demonstration program is placing more than 100 vehicles with demonstration partners by 2013, providing one of the largest fleets of active fuel cell vehicles in the country.

The primary goal of the demonstration program is to spur infrastructure development prior to fuel cell vehicle market introduction in 2015.

For more information, visit the ­Little Tokyo Design Week site.

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The reciprocating engine

The engine is the heart of a car although it is normally hidden under the bonnet. The engine is exposed in a motorcycle but the detailed mechanisms are not visible. This chapter looks at these mechanisms.

Figure 1.1 shows a four-stroke cycle petrol engine with the various parts indicated. In a reciprocating engine a mixture of petrol and air burns explosively

in a narrow container when ignited. The piston then receives the combustion pressure, and the connecting rod and crankshaft mechanism converts this

pressure into rotation. This is the basic mechanism of a reciprocating engine.

The reciprocating mechanism was originally inherited from steam engines and has been used for more than 200 years. One of the earliest mechanisms using a piston and cylinder can be seen in a 1509 drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, the famous painter and scientist of the Renaissance period. There are two main types of reciprocating engine, the four-stroke and the two-stroke

engine. Figure 1.2 illustrates the sequence of operation. The four-strokecycle engine rapidly repeats strokes 1 to 4.1

The science and technology of materials in automotive engines

Hiroshi Yamagata

Woodhead Publishing and Maney Publishing

on behalf of

The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining

CRC Press

Boca Raton Boston New York Washington, DC

WOODHEAD PUBLISHING LIMITED

Cambridge England

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