The Technology Trends

Coursework Questions to Alan I. Taub, Automotive Materials Technology Trends and Challenges in the 21st Century, MRS Bulletin, Volume 31, April 2006, 336-343 Read this article and answer the following questions on its basis 1. What is the percentage of self-propelled fomites that atomic number 18 powered by petroleum products? 2a. When did the area end where automobiles were a cost + margin = price communication channel? 2b. Into what did this equation change to? 3. What is the primary challenge in improving automotive propulsion systems? . What higher degree does Alan I. Taub hold? 5. Define the concept of mechatronics in one sentence. (Direct quotes are OK. ) 6. Who has been the largest user of nanomaterials in the world for the past quintuplet years? 7. What are the 2 major advantages of the hybrid gasoline/ galvanising propulsion technology? 8. What is an OEM? 9. Why are supply cell propelled cars called zero-emission vehicles? 10. What tolerant of technology is expected t o avoid crashes in the future? 11.What are the two challenges that arise as soon as fuel cells are reduce to a manageable size and weight? 12. How much more efficacy (in percent) can be squeezed out of the gasoline engine? 13. Approximately, how many micro military operationors are in current high-end cars from General Motors? 14. By how much (in percent) needs the vehicle mass to be reduced in order to improve the fuel economy by 6%? 15. What seems to be the best solution for the henry storage challenges? 16. Roughly, how much of the steel in currently produced vehicles is of high potency? 7. By how much (in percent) did the automotive industry reduce the weight of its vehicles everyplace the past 30 years? 18. Which two light-weight metals replace steel in currently produced cars? 19. What are the amounts of money that manufactures are typically allowed to spend on parts in the automotive industry, the aerospace industry and on satellites? 20. What is the principle process of a fuel cell (not more than two sentences please since I ask for the principle not the many details)