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EV Battery Manufacturing Commitments Surge in U.S.
The first half of 2022 is continuing last year’s raft of automaker investments in lithium-ion battery manufacturing and development in the U.S., with Stellantis and the Hyundai Group the...
Technology Report Connectivity
SAE and NREL Partner to Strengthen EV-Charging Cybersecurity
Members of the electric vehicle industry gathered at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in early April to evaluate enhanced cybersecurity for the connections between...
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Webasto Delivers Battery System for Zeus EV Chassis
Electric work trucks are beginning to roll off the line at Zeus Electric Chassis’ production facility in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Zeus is providing the Sacramento Municipal Utility...
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Alternative Fuels, Propulsion Poised for Growth in U.S. Fleets
Fuel prices are soaring. Not breaking news, I know, yet the almost-daily alerts citing new record highs for gasoline and diesel prices are still unsettling. Consumers and...
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2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Redefines the Pickup Paradigm
Just before the media test drives of the 2022 F-150 Lightning, the battery-electric variant of Ford’s market-dominating light-duty pickup truck, the Lightning’s specs were updated...
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Electric Radiant Heat for EV Cabin Comfort
Vehicle OEMs have been steadily increasing the range of their electric vehicles (EV) and plug-in hybrids (PHEV), but the ranges they claim publicly are in ideal thermal conditions. Now comes the...
INSIDER Manned Systems
Boeing 737 Gets Enhanced Flight Vision System
Collins Aerospace is beginning installation of its new Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS) for Boeing 737 aircraft. Texel Air, operating out of Bahrain International Airport, will be among the...
INSIDER Aerospace
Airbus Lays Foundations for Future Urban Air Mobility in Germany
To contribute to the development of advanced air mobility, leading companies, universities, and research institutions, as well as municipalities, are joining forces under the...
INSIDER Software
4D Composite Printing Can Improve Drone Wings
The aviation industry faces multiple pressures from higher fuel costs and increased scrutiny over the environmental and quality-of-life impacts from its aircraft. Therefore, researchers are...
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Honda Sticking with Structural Adhesives
For the all-new 2021 Acura TLX sedan, Honda revealed a new design for its front shock towers (aka “damper housings”) that leveraged dissimilar materials, self-piercing rivets (SPRs) and...
Application Briefs Materials
To the Moon and Beyond with Additive Manufacturing
Aerojet Rocketdyne uses metal 3D printing technology from Velo3D to make a critical flight component lighter, smaller, and much less expensive.
Original Equipment Transportation
Caterpillar Launches Next Generation M-Series Compact Wheel Loaders
Caterpillar has announced the launch of its next generation M-Series compact wheel loaders. These models will replace the existing 906, 907 and 908 models and feature...
Technology Report Power
Expanding the ‘Bubble’ of Cabin Acoustics
Noise cancellation has been a viable technology for many years, used on board turboprop aircraft to counter engine noise and familiar to consumers when applied to headphones to reduce...
Original Equipment Transportation
ACT Expo 2022: Production ECascadia Ready for 230 Miles of ‘Typical Range’
With no surprise but plenty of fanfare, Freightliner Trucks officially revealed the first production model of the all-electric version of its Cascadia at the...
INSIDER Manned Systems
New Weapon for Sinking Ships Becomes a Reality
The Air Force Research Laboratory and Eglin’s Integrated Test Team demonstrated a new low-cost, air-delivered capability for defeating maritime threats on April 28, 2022 by successfully...
INSIDER Defense
Army Re-Envisions Land Warfare with Next-Generation Combat Vehicles
Readying the U.S. military for future warfare requires envisioning how next-generation warfighters will maneuver across all domains, including the fundamental land domain....
INSIDER Weapons Systems
Gray Wolf Missile Design Combines Digital Engineering, Open Architecture
As part of the U.S. Air Force WeaponONE Digital Enterprise Program, researchers are combining the strengths of digital engineering and open-architecture designs to...
Application Briefs Communications
Unmanned Aerial System
With its ability to land and take off from unimproved surfaces, Mojave provides options for forward-basing operations without the need for typical airport runways or infrastructure.
Articles Transportation
The Indy Autonomous Challenge
The Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) is a technical competition involving 9 teams from 21 universities competing for a $1-million grand prize to develop software and systems capable of controlling fully autonomous race cars at speed. SAE Media Group editor Bruce A. Bennett sat down with Paul Mitchell, CEO of Energy Systems Network and the driving force behind the IAC, to learn more about the project.
Technical Innovation Manned Systems
WAVE Inductive Charging Purpose-Built for Large EVs
The largest all-electric transit bus fleet in the U.S. serves as a vivid example of commercial vehicles ditching diesel fill-ups. “WAVE’s wireless charging solution is purpose-built...
INSIDER Aerospace
Sierra Space Hoping to Revolutionize Space Exploration Xcelerator
Sierra Space, a commercial space company involved in creating and building the future of space transportation and infrastructure for Low Earth orbit (LEO) commercialization,...
INSIDER Photonics/Optics
GA-ASI Introduces New Eagle Eye Radar
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., a company that designs multi-mode radar technology for unmanned aircraft Systems, recently introduced the Eagle Eye radar. The new MMR is installed and has...
INSIDER RF & Microwave Electronics
Black Hawk Helicopter Achieves Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) Airworthiness Release
The UH-60V Black Hawk helicopter, enabled by the Northrop Grumman Corporation-developed OpenLift architecture, has been granted an Instrument Flight Rules...
Technology Report Unmanned Systems
Toyota Reinvesting in Collaborative Safety Research
To adapt to a swiftly changing mobility ecosystem, Toyota announced on April 27 a new five-year, $30-million investment in its Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Collaborative Safety Research...
Editorial Automotive
Reconsidering Hybrids
After conversations I had with powertrain engineering executives during the 2022 SAE WCX World Congress, and in reading our reports on the panel discussions, I can conclude two things. First, mobility-industry...
News Power
Integrating a Plug-In Hybrid Jeep
At no other time in the auto industry’s history has the role of vehicle integration and synthesis been so important. The growth of electronic content, the melding of mechanical and electrical engineering...
News Power
2022 Grand Cherokee Plugs In
Plug-in hybrids are a controversial subject in engineering and product-planning circles. With a modicum of electric-only capability and superior driving range but retaining the tailpipe emissions and...
Articles Materials
Niobium: Magic Metal for Battery Anodes?
The element niobium (Nb), a transition metal, stands ready to improve the performance of one of the lithium-ion battery’s confusing array of possible electrode chemistries – the LTO (lithium...
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Preparing for a Lumpy EV Transition
Recently, I was asked by an OEM to sum up the looming ICE-to-BEV industry transformation. My reply came in a single word: lumpy! And while that description may not be the most finely tailored way to...
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