NIKKEI Automotive Technology 2008 May

Cover Story :
New developments in automotive lightening

Key Person:

Reduce costs of CFRP parts at the aluminum level

Technology Report:

Engine plant for NISSAN GT-R
GM/Chrysler’s power train strategy
Automotive Technology Day 2008 winter report
Hybrid technology using flywheels
Mitsubishi Motors’ electric car i-MiEV
Visteon-3M concept vehicle
Molding Mg using a diamond mold
Crash test results released by JNCAP
Matsushita Electric Industrial’s new-model PND
Enhancing durability of plastics to biofuels

Market Watch:

Prices of vehicles cannot be raised on the account of the soaring material costs

News Index:

Tata Motors of India releases a low-cost vehicle “nano”

Analysis:

Hydrogen storage technology of fuel-cell vehicles

Analysis:

Grasping the automotive trends through MEMS

Road to BRICs:

Mazda aims at annual production of 300,000 vehicles in China

Theory of Parts Evolution:

Batteries in need of charge-discharge control

New Standards and Rules:

Pole side crash tests conducted in the U.S.

Event Report:

78th Geneva International Automobile Show

New Car Report:

Toyota new-model Crown
Lexus IS-F
Audi A5
Fiat 500

Basic Course:

Material/processing technology to cut cost and weight
Sensors update

Inside Story:
Subaru Boxer Turbo Diesel

New Products:

for consumers
for engineers

Letters from readers / From editors / Coming next issue

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Nikkei Electronics Asia (monthly)

We are offering a magazine monthly to qualified engineers and managers free of charge.

In-depth Articles from Nikkei Electronics Asia

Cover Story SSDs Challenge HDDs, but Quality a Problem

Solid-state drives (SSD) using NAND Flash memory are beginning to show up in a variety of equipment as storage devices. Prices are dropping as semiconductor technology continues to evolve, accelerating adoption of the drives, but manufacturers must also deal with eroding quality.

Analysis Expanded Use of Silicon Tuners Transforms Tvs

With analog television broadcasting slated for the axe in about two years in Japan, TV broadcast tuners are evolving rapidly, replacing old radio frequency (RF) analog circuits with new integrated circuits (IC) called silicon tuners. Signal demodulators are evolving with them, and by tracing the direction of their evolution it is possible to delineate the shape of tomorrow's TV.

Convenience Stores Lead in Energy Conservation

Convenience store franchises are moving to slash energy consumption following the revision of the Japanese Act on the Rational Use of Energy, and are rapidly becoming showcases for cutting-edge energy-conservation technology. The technologies honed here will spread to other firms in the distribution industry, office buildings and more, eventually worldwide.