L’évolution de la mobilité électrique L’ID.3 continue de faire avancer la mobilité électrique chez Volkswagen : les lignes extérieures apportent un design plus affiné à l’ID.3. Son intérieur est caractérisé par des matériaux d’une qualité supérieure, complété par de nombreux systèmes d’assistance. C’est l’avant-garde de la mobilité 100% électrique.
Participer à la révolution électrique : guider l’évolution de l’industrie automobile
L’anticipation concernant la révolution électrique ne laisse aucun acteur de l’industrie automobile indifférent. Des distributeurs de pièces détachées à petite échelle aux grands constructeurs automobiles, son impact devrait être étendu, avec de nombreux facteurs contribuant à cette transformation.En février 2023, le Parlement européen a approuvé une nouvelle loi interdisant la vente de voitures diesel et […]
BRAKE FADE – Brake Fade
Any type of brake gets heated up after repeated or hard use. Apart from ceramic or any other ceramic alloy disc, all brakes diminish their effectiveness after they get heated up. This is called brake fade.
BRAKE CALIPER – Brake caliper
BRAKE CALIPER – Brake caliper The brake caliper looks almost like a normal measuring caliper and is part of the disc brake. When brakes are applied, hydraulic fluid forces the brake pads using one or several pistons in the calipers towards the discs, causing the discs to squeezed.
BOTTOM END POWER – Bottom-end power
The power that an engine produces at low revs (at the “bottom end” of the rev range).
BODY SIDE STEPS – Body-side steps
The bars you can step up onto on the side of an SUV or an off-roader, making entry and exit a little easier. They are mostly found on American cars.
BODY ROLL – Body roll
The leaning motion of a vehicle’s body while turning into a corner. Also known as yaw angle.
BI-XENON HEADLAMPS – Bi-xenon headlamps
Bi-Xenon headlamps are actually normal xenon headlamps which use a single lamp to produce both the high beam and the low beam. The full light beam is used to produce the high beam, while the low beam is produced by moving a shutter between the bulb and the lens, thus blocking off a portion of […]
BHP – Brake Horsepower
Brake Horsepower is the imperial (or British) measure of an engineÂ’s horsepower, and it is about 0.98 out of a metric horsepower.
BFD – Brake Force Display
Brake Force Display is a system developed by BMW for alerting tailgating drivers of a potential hazard in front of their vehicle. It works by increasing the intensity of the brake lights under heavy braking. The extra lighting is triggered only after the ABS sensors detect a rate of deceleration in excess of 5 m/second […]