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What Is a Hybrid?
In automotive terms, a vehicle that uses electric motors and an internal combustion engine working together to create motion.
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What Is a HUD?
A HUD or Head-Up Display is a device that projects vehicle information such as current speed, navigation instructions, and forward…
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What Is a Lithium-Ion Battery?
A lithium-ion battery is a rechargeable battery that uses the element lithium (Li) as a key component. Lithium is intercalated…
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What Is Light Rail?
Light rail is a rail-based transportation system using small electric-powered trains at street level. Typically found in urban areas providing…
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What Is Flex Fuel?
Flex Fuel is the trade name for a mixture of up to 85% ethanol and gasoline. The mixture is also…
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What Is Lidar?
Lidar is an acronym for Light Detection and Ranging. Lidar operates according to the principles of radar but uses reflections…
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What Is a Hydrogen Fuel Cell?
A hydrogen fuel cell device that processes pure hydrogen to create an electrical current. In most common implementations, hydrogen is…
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What Is SAE J2807?
SAE J2807 is a towing standard by which a set of standard tests measure the towing capability of a vehicle.…
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What Is Autonomous?
Autonomous means independent or self-governing. In the automotive industry, an autonomous vehicle is capable of safe operation under standard rules of travel without human intervention.
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What Is Ride-Sharing?
Ride-sharing is any practice of two or more people sharing a vehicle headed to a common destination, such as a…