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Recession May Come Before CASE Is Realized
President and Founder, Japan Electrification Research Institute, Ltd.SUMMARY. The global auto industry is bubbling with changes and dramatic new ideas, but the current declining financial performances of Japanese auto OEMs may force them to drop out of the race temporarily before they can take advantage of the growing demand for autonomous vehicles.
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Off-Highway Truck Production
2019 NA Production About The Same as 2018
1400 Units
This information originally appeared in the August 2019 issue of PowerTALK.
Carol Turner is Senior Analyst, Global Operations
DataPoint Fourteen hundred units is the estimate, by Power Systems Research, of the number of Off-Highway Trucks that will be produced in the United States and Canada during 2019. Estimated 2019 production will be about the same as 2018.
In 2018, production was 1412 units, down 55 units or 4% from 2017.
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MotorIndia Magazine: India CV Market Facing Lower Demand in 2019
The India CV market is facing lower demand in 2019, reports MotorIndia magazine in its August 2019 Market Outlook issue.
CV Link is a comprehensive database updated quarterly that covers the CV market.
After a blockbuster growth in 2017 and 2018, writes Shah, growth that was largely driven by demand for tipper trucks due to the new infrastructure, mining projects and fleet replacement; the party ended in Q4 of 2018.
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China Has World’s Largest EV-Charging Network
China has built the world’s largest electronic vehicle charging infrastructure network, attracting capital from diversified sources.
Source: China Daily Read The Article
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US Combines
2019 US Production Forecast to Climb 2%
6800 Units
This information originally appeared in the July 2019 issue of PowerTALK.
By Carol Turner, Senior Analyst, Global Operations
This is the estimate by Power Systems Research of the number of Combines that will be produced in the United States during 2019. Estimated 2019 production will be up nearly 2% from 2018.
In 2018, production was 6846 units, down 485 units or 6.6% from 2017.
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How Student Teamwork Built a World Championship Car
Editor’s Note: Caroline Little teaches all levels of French and moderates an engineering co-curricular at St. Thomas Academy, an all-boys school in Mendota Heights, Minnesota. Here she provides a report on the program and the benefits it provides to participating students.
Power Systems Research has been a lead sponsor of the special Experimental Vehicle Team (EVT) at St. Thomas for many years. This year, the team won its class in the Shell Eco-Marathon international competition in London. This report from Ms. Little discusses the program and the benefits it provides for high school students interested in science, technology, engineering and match (STEM).
By Caroline Little
Every year for the past twenty the Saint Thomas Academy Experimental Vehicle Team (STA EVT) has built a new vehicle from the ground up to give our students the best engineering experience a high-schooler can get. The internationally recognized program started in 1997. My fellow moderator Mark Westlake and I believe in the importance of learning from mistakes. That the most important life lessons come from experience, that science is not always easy and that the answers are not always found in the back of the book.
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Booming North American Rental Market Offers Opportunity
This article appeared in the June 2017 issue of Compoundings Magazine, published by ILMA (Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association)
If you didn’t hike through the nearly 3 million square feet of exhibit space at CONEXPO-CON/AGG in Las Vegas in March, you missed an opportunity to explore several new markets for lubricants.
And even if you were in Las Vegas, you might have missed two of the most promising growth opportunities for lubricants.…
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