Why had Volvo lost its way in the years leading up to the takeover? Volvo started to manufacture and export cars to foreign countries since the mid-1950s. The company set up plants in Torslanda‚ Sweden‚ in 1964‚ followed by plants in Belgium and the Netherlands. Before Volvo was sold to Ford Motor Company in 1999‚ they had a joint-venture partnership with Pininfarina SpA of Italy. (Volvo Car: 2007 company profile edition 2‚ 2007‚ pp. 9-11) Volvo is a premium brand; with market shares of 1.5% and
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Why do car accidents exist‚ and what would it be like without them in the future? Scientists in labs around the world are working to end or eliminate car crashes. Accidents are caused for many reasons‚ but human error is one of their main causes. Sometimes drivers go too fast for the weather conditions‚ when it is a good time to be more cautious. Drivers also pass each other when there is not enough time for the to get back in their lane. Complex technology is also being tested to
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How did your car perform? Explain the aspects of your car that made it function well. What are some areas of improvement for your car? Explain how it could have been made better so that the car could have performed better. During its test‚ my mousetrap car curved to the right causing it to crash into a wall and stop short of its full potential. However‚ the car still traveled the the entirety of the 11 meters required for the maximum number of points. The reasons that my mousetrap car functioned as
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Physics of Car Crashes INTERNAL - Notes INJURIES TO A HUMAN: During a car crash‚ there are three different collisions that occur. The first one is the collision of the car and the opposing object‚ the second is the human inside the car and the car itself. The final collision is the ones that occur within the human body itself. BRAIN: The human brain is protected by the cranial cavity or the skull. The brain is suspended in a substance called the cerebral spinal fluid‚ which is denser than the skull
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winding the spring on your mousetrap car‚ you store energy in the spring as potential energy. This stored potential energy will convert energy into kinetic energy as the mouse-trap car begins to move. But there is friction and in order to overcome friction you have to do more work. Friction converts energy into heat and sound which takes away energy from your motion‚ causing the car to stop as its energy is turned into other forms. When designing a mousetrap car‚ there are two variables that truly
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my vehicle from going farther then it could’ve. My car also needed a bit of momentum to start so the friction did not help my care move at all. What problems related to friction did you encounter and how did you solve them? The friction did not help my car move. My car needed a bit of momentum to start‚ like most objects. The friction did not work with my car at all! I solved it by dropping my car instead of pushing. The dropping helped my car move and push. What factors did you take
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This year in science‚ we were paired up in groups to build a car powered only by a rubber band. There was a lot of physics and thought put behind the planning of our car. The rubber band moved the car by storing up elastic potential energy which then turned into kinetic energy when released. Newton’s Laws of Motion also come in handy when thinking about how to keep the car moving. “An object in motion stays in motion.” There was also a lot of thought put into the wheels. We had to be aware of the
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CAN CAR Essay Keaton Mertz Simms-D The goal of the can car lab was to create a rubber band-powered car that demonstrates Newton’s laws‚ and conservation of energy. The advantages of having a heavy rolling can is that I would have a lot of rotational energy and momentum‚ the disadvantage is the car has more static inertia. If the car has more static inertia‚ then it will be harder for the can to roll backwards at the end of its run. The factors affecting the can’s net force (once the rubber band
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Electric cars look very different under the hood than a gasoline-powered car. For one thing‚ there is a lot less tubing. For another‚ if you look underneath the hood of an electric car‚ one of the first things you will probably notice is the controller‚ which takes energy from the battery and distributes it to the motor in controlled packets. And that’s pretty much it in a nutshell. Instead of a gas tank‚ the electric car keeps its fuel in a battery and relies on the controller‚ not the distributor
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The Challenge of Designing Electric Cars Dr. Tobias Giebel Tobias Giebel 博士 Sahnghai EXPO‚ May 2010 Contents 内容 • Introduction Group Research and Volkswagen Research Lab China (VRC) 大众汽车集团研发中心概况和大众汽车中国研究实验室(VRC)介绍 • Volkswagens Strategy for Powertrains and Fuel 大众汽车的动力总成及燃料战略 • Blue Motion Technologies 蓝驱技术 • Hybrid Technologies 混合动力技术 • Electrotraction 电驱动技术 • Hydrogen Technologies 氢技术 • Modular Toolbox 模块化设计矩阵 • Conclusion 结论 Dr. Tobias Giebel Tobias Giebel 博士 The Volkswagen Portfolio
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