Yanmar Co Ltd is adding a 20 per cent boost to the production capacity of its Biwa Plant for small industrial diesel engines. The newly developed 14-Slot AdvancedTCA-System is particularly suitable for the telecom and network applications, including Wireless IP, telephony and optical switching. Mario Topfer looks at a heatable EPDM-based hose line module specially developed for selective catalytic reduction technology. Because of the negative impacts on the environment caused by increasing mobility, European funding has been made available to develop a new vehicle that will both reduce pollution and ease traffic congestion. Seven years ago Damian Harty, chief engineer, dynamics, at Prodrive, started thinking about a vehicle that would provide the agility of a motorbike but without the drawbacks of poor weather protection and vulnerability in the event of an accident. The resultant concept, referred to as the Naro car, was unveiled earlier in 2004 (Fig.1), but it is not the only narrow vehicle currently proposed as a solution to city traffic problems.