Internal combustion engine

Maintenance of recreational vehicles What is an RV? The word RV stands for “Recreational Vehicles”. This is a new, entirely different and a revolution in the generation of vehicles and automobiles. These are described as such vehicles that have all the features and facilities of home. They have quite a large living space, equipped with all the necessary items of home like kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, dining room, lounge equipped with all basic facilities like TV, light, fan, sofa or a desk,…

10 years, further cities might announce plans for diesel bans or establish levies for diesel engines(Cue). This will lead to customers’ preference to shift from diesel to petrol. To overcome the forthcoming cost challenges, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) will abandon diesel in order to focus on the development on petrol engines, alternative innovation of new drive trains or even larger diesel engines. Competitors that might eliminate diesel cars/ reputation (new markets will open up for…

TEXTING WHILE DRIVING The minimal time to look at a text message is 5 seconds. Taking your eyes off the road for 5 seconds at 45 mph or above can be crucial. Driving while over 45 mph means that you are driving a football field distance in 10 minuets. Without looking at the road , you are putting your life and others lives in danger. You should always look at the road. Texting while driving should be a crime in the Missouri. People should care more about the lives of others and the…

Nowadays, most of the developing countries aim to improve their public transportation services so as to reduce traffic congestion and face the increased private cars ownership. Many systems have been proposed to improve the level of service of public transit. One of these systems is the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) which combines the exclusive right of way, speed and reliability of railways and the flexibility and cost saving of buses. A number of cities use road lanes that are fully dedicated to…

In the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a consistent motif is the presence of cars. Fitzgerald uses a numerous amount of examples of cars to comment on what he believes the car culture to be in the 1920s. Its very clear that Fitzgerald believes that the car culture of the time period assimilates to a very reckless behavior. For example, when Nick and Jordan are driving together, he makes a comment about her bad driving and she replies “They’ll keep out of my way, it takes two to…

Driving a car isn’t all that similar to riding a bike, but once you learn you’ll never forget how. I will be going over some of the similarities and the differences in this paper. I love the feeling of driving fast, so naturally I gravitate towards the car. They are more cumbersome to learn how to operate, but they are a lot easier once you get the hang of it. So I will be comparing these three aspects: Ease of use, speed, learning process. The first aspect we will be going over is the learning…

be used, because in early diesel engines emitted large amounts of nitrogen oxide. Since the EPA (environmental Protection Agency) has issued tough emission standards for any new diesel engines, the amount of pollutants that diesel engines emit has drastically gone down. Since the diesel powered machinery is more efficient, industry like the railroad and container…

strive to be more? I you have a true passion for racing you should be pushing yourself to the limit, be on the cutting edge, look to be different, not just follow the herd. But alas, this is what the majority of the racers do. They see someone buy an engine from so and so and they go out and buy one too. They put it in and run just…

In the late 1960’s Japan and Germany were producing numerous vehicles to compete against American made cars. Ford motor company wanted to produce a subcompact car to meet the threat from abroad head on so Ford came up with the Ford Pinto. These cars were made to be affordable and domestic, in order for a large quantity of Americans to be able to afford them. To accelerate product production Ford “decided to compress the normal drafting board to showroom time of about three and a half years into…

One thing that surprised me about the car was that the car tires were filled with nitrogen gas instead of compressed air. Nitrogen is a colorless and odorless non-toxic gas used to reduce the temperature of the tire and increase its lifespan. In races, it may be able to keep tire pressure more constant and slow pressure loss without reacting to the tire and rim materials. Another thing that surprised me about the car was its design and build. What really caught my eye was that the inside of the…