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Maintaining Supply When a Pandemic Strikes
Just when it seems that the auto industry isn’t facing enough challenges, COVID-19 swoops in out of the blue. No extraneous shock that’s hit the automotive sector in the past decade –...
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All-Wheel-Drive Returns to Chrysler Pacifica for 2021
The refresh of the 2021 model-year Chrysler Pacifica minivan premiers a top-of-the-line luxury trim, the debut of a next-generation infotainment system, and the return of...
News Transportation
Executive Insights: BorgWarner VP and CTO Hakan Yilmaz
The automotive sector is in a time of enormous flux. As the foundational aspects of the industry shift, longstanding Tier-1 suppliers such as BorgWarner must continue to drive...
Original Equipment Manufacturing & Prototyping
Hyundai Reveals Compact Electric Excavator Prototype
Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas (HCEA) demonstrated a working prototype of its electric-powered compact excavator at ConExpo-Con/Agg 2020 in Las Vegas, March 10-14. The R18E...
Original Equipment AR/AI
JLG Develops Self-Leveling Boom Lift
What started as a scale-model prototype shown at Bauma 2016 to explore the viability of a lift with a “smart” suspension has become reality for JLG Industries. At ConExpo-Con/Agg 2020, the...
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Wearable Device Camouflages Its Wearer Regardless of the Weather
Researchers at the University of California San Diego developed a wearable technology that can hide its wearer from heat-detecting sensors such as night vision goggles, even...
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Machine Learning Accelerates High-Performance Materials Development
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and its partners rely on timely development and deployment of diverse materials to support a variety of national security...
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Sky Devils Provide Critical Link to Soldiers
New Jersey Army National Guard soldiers train daily to operate the RQ-7B Shadow unmanned aerial vehicle for surveillance, targeting and communications relay.
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FPT Reveals Compact F28 Off-Road Diesel, Hybrid Variant
Seemingly everything at the ConExpo-Con/Agg 2020 is big – from the show’s footprint to the seemingly endless number of construction machines on the grounds. But FPT Industrial...
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New CM Labs Excavator Simulator Training Offers GPS Guidance, HMI Experience
CM Labs Simulations’ (ConExpo-Con/Agg, Booth F100911 in the Festival Hall) new excavator training exercise incorporates an integrated GPS guidance system that...
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Case Unveils Fully-Electric Backhoe Loader, Begins Delivery This Year
Case Construction Equipment’s move toward alternative propulsion took another step forward at March’s ConExpo-Con/Agg Show when it revealed “Project Zeus,” also...
Articles Automotive
Engineering the Chevrolet Corvette's First-Ever Mid-Engine Architecture
Shifting 500 lb (227 kg) of engine mass rearward by 7.5 feet (2.3 m) and moving 300 lb (136 kg) of transmission components aft by almost three feet transformed the...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
New Ultium Battery System Underpins GM’s EV Future
General Motors on March 4 gave media, investors and key dealers the first look at the electric-vehicle (EV) onslaught it is readying for production, along with related propulsion,...
INSIDER Test & Measurement
NASA Tests Radiation Vest for Deep Space Missions
As NASA leads the way for human exploration at the Moon and beyond, space radiation is one of the biggest hazards crews face. NASA is testing the AstroRad radiation protection vest on...
INSIDER Aerospace
Fuel-Efficient Engine for Cheaper, Lighter Spacecraft
Ending NASA’s Space Shuttle into orbit required more than 3.5 million pounds of fuel, which is about 15 times heavier than a blue whale. But a new type of engine — called a rotating...
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British HFQ Process May Enhance Aluminum’s High-Volume Future
With this year’s end stage of a major collaborative R&D project, the longstanding competition between steel and aluminum for high-volume vehicle production is set to...
Road Ready Test & Measurement
Driving the 2020 Corvette Stingray
Grasping the true beauty of Chevy’s new 2020 Corvette supercar demands a deep dig. You must venture beyond the exciting-to-a-fault exterior skin and the lavish stitched-leather, buffed-metal, and...
News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
ALLEGRO Project Seeks to Boost Lightweight-Materials Durability
First define the lightweight material that best complements electric vehicle (EV) and automated-vehicle (AV) range efficiency – then optimize it for increased durability via...
Articles Materials
The Inside Story on Adhesive Tapes for Automotive Heat Shielding
Michael VanHaerents, automotive business development manager for Avery Dennison Performance Tapes, explains the unique properties and benefits of Avery Dennison’s adhesive tapes for heat-shield attachment.
Articles Automotive
Meet The 2020 SAE Prez
Todd Zarfos aims to help SAE navigate the disruption occurring across industry sectors.
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Tula Turns Its Tech Toward EV Motor Control
San Jose-based Tula Technology is best known for its innovative Dynamic Skip Fire technology. Editor-in-chief Lindsay Brooke caught up with Scott Bailey, the company’s president and CEO, to find out. Read on for highlights of their conversation.
Articles Automotive
The Mind of Argo AI
Argo AI is a leader in SAE Level 4 systems development, partnering with Ford and Volkswagen to put autonomous people-movers and delivery vehicles into revenue-generating road use in the next few years.
Articles Automotive
ZF Establishes Level 2+ ADAS
A new realism has emerged: ADAS that ZF calls ‘Level 2+’ for passenger vehicles, and SAE Level 4 systems for commercial-vehicle applications and people/ cargo movers in defined use cases.
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The Inside Story on Thermal Management
TLX Technologies designs and manufactures custom electro-mechanical solenoid products for the automotive industry. In this Q&A piece, Travis Mueller, TLX Design Engineer, discusses the importance of thermal management in today’s vehicle designs.
Articles Propulsion
Electrifying GM
General Motors’ long, convoluted journey toward vehicle electrification has finally arrived at an earlier-than-expected destination: total commitment to a battery-electric future. GM is officially “all in” on BEVs as...
News Materials
JLR Tackles Weight with Structural Electronics
Ashutosh Tomar, electrical research technical manager at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) said he has absolute confidence in the game-changing potential of structural electronics (SE) now being...
News Aerospace
CES 2020: Hyundai Shows Electric VTOL Air-Taxi Concept
Hyundai at CES 2020 revealed a fullsize electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) “air taxi” concept and confirmed it has joined Uber’s aerial rideshare initiative known as...
News Unmanned Systems
GoMentum Begins Testing Autonomous Shuttles
It was uneventful when an eight-passenger, low-speed driverless shuttle crawled at about 10 mph (16 km/h) toward the intersection at the GoMentum Station AV proving grounds in Concord, Calif. The...
News AR/AI
CES 2020: Toyota to Build a City of the Future
There’s hardly a region on Earth that Toyota doesn’t reach. At the 2020 CES conference, the company announced a visionary project of similar scope, saying it intends to build a...
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