Jaguar Land Rover, the first automotive company to introduce a high volume engine based on a Compacted Graphite Iron (CGI) cylinder block, has unveiled its fourth CGI engine – a 4.4 litre V8 turbodiesel. Similar to the engine’s 3.6 litre predecessor launched during 2006, the new 4.4 litre turbodiesel upgrade is based on a SinterCast-CGI [...]

Navistar, Inc. announced today during a web conference with the U.S. Department of Energy and FedEx, that it will deliver to FedEx the first full-production eStar™—Navistar’s all-electric commercial truck. The company is currently taking orders for the eStar and intends to deliver 400 units by the end of 2010. The eStar all-electric truck is the [...]

Students at Carnegie Mellon University spent the spring semester exploring the future of electric vehicles through a partnership with Nissan North America (NNA). The class is a cross-campus collaboration among faculty and researchers at the university’s Carnegie Institute of Technology (College of Engineering), School of Design and Tepper School of Business. The classroom challenge for [...]