True or False High-tech research in Singapore includes the elusive but all-consuming invention that drove Nicola Tesla - Wireless Power Transfer.

Select a conventional ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) passenger car from the market. Convert the ICE powertrain to an electric powertrain using the structural and performance parameters of the vehicle by calculating the electric motor shaft power, torque and speed, sketching the required graphs of the vehicle performance, selecting a proper gearbox ratio, analysing the gradeability performance of the car, selecting a battery pack and define battery voltage, current and energy capacity (Give thereasons of your selection), and defining the performance and energy consumption of the car for a specific drive cycle (calculate the cost of the drive considering the price of electricity too).

The rapid progress of engineering design and information technology has caused difficulties in analyzing system reliability. Because of the increased complexity in system reliability structure (component/subsystem interfaces), many unexpected failure modes could occur, and their behaviors are interdependent. At a system’s design and development stage, the main challenge in analyzing a complex system is the failure uncertainty introduced by the incomplete knowledge of the system. This makes it hard to decompose system reliability into subsystem/component reliability in a deterministic manner, such as series or parallel systems. As a result, some common reliability analysis tools such as fault tree (FT) and reliability block diagram (RBD) become inadequate. Do you agree, why or why not? Are there any other approaches to system reliability assessment beside these tools at the early system’s design and development stage (what are these approaches)?