Vector Motors Corporation was an American automobile manufacturer originally based in Wilmington, California. Its history can be traced to Vehicle Design...
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three-phase AC motor are identified as two orthogonal components that can be visualized with a vector. One component defines the magnetic flux of the motor, the...
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dreams see the light of day." Vector WX-3 Vector M12 Vector WX-8 Vector Motors Melissen, Wouter (July 25, 2005). "1990–1993 Vector W8 Twin Turbo". Ultimatecarpage...
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The Vector W2 is a concept car constructed by Vector Motors in 1978. The concept went into production as the Vector W8 in 1990. The name comes from the...
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engineered, developed and manufactured by Vector Motors of Wilmington, California in 1992. Conceived by Vector Motors founder and chief designer Gerald Wiegert...
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Vehicle (ATV) (Vector), a military patrol vehicle VECTOR, a Dutch light utility vehicle Vector, a variant of the Saab 9-3 automobile Vector Motors sports cars...
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The Vector WX-8 was a sports car prototype manufactured by Vector Motors. It was first unveiled at the 2007 LA Auto Show, revealing the development and...
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Gerald Wiegert (category Vector Motors)
engineer and businessman, notable as the founder of two companies, Vector Motors and Aquajet, and for designing the products marketed by those companies...
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The Vector M12 is a sports car manufactured by Vector Aeromotive under parent company Megatech, and was the first car produced after the hostile takeover...
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Thrust vectoring, also known as thrust vector control (TVC), is the ability of an aircraft, rocket or other vehicle to manipulate the direction of the...
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with "T-top" roof. (USA; defunct) Vector Motors (USA) VUHL (Mexico) Birkin Cars (South Africa) Glass Sport Motors (South Africa; defunct) G.R.P. Engineering...
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induction motor in 1892 and developed a line of polyphase 60 hertz induction motors in 1893, these early Westinghouse motors were two-phase motors with wound...
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owned a 35% stake in troubled American sports car manufacturer Vector Motors, thought Vector and Lamborghini might be able to collaborate to improve their...
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between the two motors, which can be done on a millisecond scale. In the case of EVs with three or four motors, even more precise torque vectoring can be applied...
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Space vector modulation (SVM) is an algorithm for the control of pulse-width modulation (PWM), invented by Gerhard Pfaff, Alois Weschta, and Albert Wick...
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In physics, the Poynting vector (or Umov–Poynting vector) represents the directional energy flux (the energy transfer per unit area, per unit time) or...
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Magnetic field (redirect from Magnetic field vector)
electric motors, is one of the main reasons why three-phase systems dominate the world's electrical power supply systems. Synchronous motors use DC-voltage-fed...
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Commutated motors have been mostly replaced by brushless motors, permanent magnet motors, and induction motors. The motor shaft extends outside of the motor, where...
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change the direction of current in part of the motor. DC motors were the first form of motors to be widely used, as they could be powered from existing...
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fed synchronous motors use independently-excited multiphase AC electromagnets for both rotor and stator. Synchronous and induction motors are the most widely...
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In classical electromagnetism, magnetic vector potential (often denoted A) is the vector quantity defined so that its curl is equal to the magnetic field...
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List of automobiles known for negative reception (section General Motors cars with Oldsmobile diesel engines (1978–85))
Espace. The Vector W8 was a Supercar built by American manufacturer Vector Motors. Developed through the 1980s and promoted with its Vector W2 prototype...
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Spline (mathematics) (redirect from Knot vector)
Given a knot vector t, a degree n, and a smoothness vector r for t, one can consider the set of all splines of degree ≤ n having knot vector t and smoothness...
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Four-current (redirect from Charge four-vector)
density, with units of charge per unit time per unit area. Also known as vector current, it is used in the geometric context of four-dimensional spacetime...
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Scalar control (category Electric motors)
scalar control has been to a large degree replaced in high-performance motors by vector control that enables better handling of the transient processes. Low...
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Direct torque control (category Electric motor control)
[citation needed] Vector control (motor) Hughes, Austin; Drury, Bill (2013). "Variable Frequency Operation of Induction Motors". Electric Motors and Drives....
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Management, Entrepreneur Gerald Wiegert, automotive engineer and founder of Vector Motors Muhammad Mian Soomro, Ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan Charles Edward Chapel...
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for his contributions to the work of friend Gerald Wiegert, such as Vector Motors.[citation needed] He also became an avid pilot, having circumnavigated...
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Electromagnetic four-potential (redirect from Four vector potential)
relativistic vector function from which the electromagnetic field can be derived. It combines both an electric scalar potential and a magnetic vector potential...
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considered the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history. MT Vector was a small motor tanker, built in Manila, Philippines in 1980 as Oil Nic-II, with...
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