Sentences with phrase «minimizing vehicle weight»

Advanced features include a die - cast aluminum block with cast - in iron cylinder liners and aluminum cylinder heads for minimizing vehicle weight.

Built with carbon fiber reinforced plastics to minimize vehicle weight, the BMW i8 weights 1480 kg.

Not exact matches

To support new concepts in vehicle dynamics — in particular the direct yaw control effected by the torque vectoring capabilities of the front - mounted TMU and the direct, zero - delay response of the chassis to driver inputs — the NSX engineering team was challenged to create a new concept for body design that delivered ultimate rigidity while minimizing weight and meeting other critical targets such as visibility, crash safety performance and durability / quality / reliability (DQR).

The ablation casting process allows for the fine - tuning of both the cast part's shape, as well as the material properties of the castings in the energy - absorbing areas of the vehicle, while minimizing weight in the form of a hollow part with optimized wall thickness.

As with the 650S, the 675LT makes use of single - piece carbon fiber monocell weighing 75 kg (165 lb), and carbon fiber use in the vehicle is increased in order to further minimize weight and increase rigidity.