When a new technology emerges, the lubricants industry must evolve to meet the specific challenges of the new operating paradigm. In the 1980's on of the biggest new applications was the wind turbine gearbox. In this episode Jim Carey, retired Mobil formulator, talks us through the evolution of these products and the formulation challenges as gearboxes became larger and more power dense.
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What exactly is the role of oil companies in motorsports? Seems like a trivial question, but their involvement can run much deeper than just...
EVs are here. Whether you like or not, it seems that both regulation and the markets have decreed that battery-based vehicles are the future....