A new windshield wiper motor offers high torque in a small package, showing promise for heavy-duty vehicles with tight space constraints. The Viper3 geared motor is said to be quieter, lighter, and ...

Many of us have been in this scenario: driving down the road in the rain, you turn on your windshield wipers only to have them do an inadequate job clearing your field of view. Perhaps the wiper is ...

Tesla has filed a patent application for an electromagnetically motivated windshield wiper blade, which it says would be both more efficient and offer superior longevity over conventional wiper motor ...

When it came time to confront the chore of keeping our 1960 Corvette project’s windshield clean during inclement weather, we quickly came up with four valid reasons to replace the factory system with ...

Futuristic innovations were a hallmark of '50's and '60's General Motors concept cars, and Corvette—along with Cadillac—were usually first in line for a GM concept car innovation to make it to the ...

Whether your 1966 or 1967 Chevelle is Pro-Touring, Pro-Street, or Pro-Commuter, the stock electric wiper motor is nearly 50 years old. Not that 50 is old, but for a windshield wiper motor that was not ...

Windshield wipers are powered by a small electric motor, usually mounted on the firewall or under the cowl (the area under the windshield’s base). The motor activates linkage that moves the wiper arms ...

Windshield wipers are such a simple little thing on the front of your windshield, that it can be easy to underestimate their importance—that is until you get stuck in a rainstorm. In bad weather ...

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