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Powertrains Drive the Future of Engine Design

The automotive industry is experiencing a renaissance in powertrain design, providing solutions for battery electric vehicles, plug-in electric hybrids, and dedicated hybrids, as well as continued improvements in the internal combustion engine. Hybrid powertrains are displaying a greater variety of hybridization that can be configured to meet individual driver needs.

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Every Day a Snow Day <br />for This Engineer

Every Day a Snow Day for This Engineer

It takes a lot of engineering to build one of the most popular modes of winter transportation -the snowmobile.

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High Times for High-Speed Rail

High Times for High-Speed Rail

Amtrak has been moving full steam ahead to expand high-speed intercity rail service in the Northeast Corridor and beyond.

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Environment & Transportation Group (ETG)

To constitute a Technical Group of the ASME in accordance with the Society's Constitution, By-Laws, and Rules in the fields of environmental control of air pollution, noise, solid wastes, and other environmental contaminants, and the processing of wastes for recovery of resources, reuse, and disposal; and of transportation, transport systems, and vehicles traversing the Earth's land, atmosphere, water, and extraterrestrial domain.

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Transportation is vital to all societies. The term covers every mode of transportation from foot to flight as well as vehicles (bicycles, cars, trucks, trains, ships, aircraft, and rockets). Transportation includes optimizing the design and engineering of those vehicles, ensuring their safety and building/maintaining the enormous infrastructure (footpaths, roads, railways, ports, sea lanes, airways) demanded by today’s highly mobile and globally interconnected society.