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Cybersecurity for Commercial Vehicles
At Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), cybersecurity spans multiple divisions because—after all—security is not confined to any one area or industry. As a Senior Research Engineer in the Automation and...
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Direct Part Marking Replaces Labels, Saves Supplier $1 Million
A major Tier 1 automotive supplier was required by its customers to mark each of a family of plastic body panels that it produced with a 2D Data Matrix bar code. In the past,...
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Eicher Polaris Creates Personal-Utility-Vehicle Segment in India
Eicher Polaris Pvt. Ltd. recently launched what it claims is India’s first personal utility vehicle (PUV), the Multix, creating a new category in the automotive segment....
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Deutz-Fahr Tractor Debuts Industry-First Hella LED Light Package
Deutz-Fahr collaborated with Hella to develop an industry-first LED light package for its line of 7 Series tractors. The Deutz-Fahr 7250 Warrior is equipped with 14 new Hella...
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Scientists Print Radio Frequency Antenna with Graphene Ink
Scientists have taken a significant step in moving graphene – the incredibly strong and conductive single-atom-thick sheet of carbon – from lab bench novelty to commercially viable...
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Smart-Mortar Could Help Soldiers Hit Targets
The Army hopes its new 120mm Guided Enhanced Fragmentation Mortar (GEFM) will improve soldiers' ability to put artillery on target. The GEFM is a high- accuracy, GPS-guided mortar concept currently...
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Compact UV Lasers Could Spot Dangerous Substances from a Distance
For soldiers in the field, the ability to identify an object or substance based on how it responds to light could mean the difference between life and death. They could, for...
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Freudenberg-NOK Develops Lightweight, Fireproof Materials for Engine Nacelles
Freudenberg-NOK Sealing Technologies is currently developing two new materials that reportedly will help aircraft manufacturers save weight and production costs...
Articles Energy
Future ICEs: What Comes After 2025?
Vehicle engineers and planners have been breathing a bit easier lately, generally confident that the industry will meet the upcoming U.S. CAFE and Euro 6 vehicle CO2 regulations without excessive...
Articles Transportation
Plotting the Vehicle Autonomy Revolution
Larry Burns has spent much of his 40-year career peering far beyond the horizon in search of future-mobility solutions. As General Motors’ Vice President of Research & Development and...
Articles Transportation
It’s ‘Do-or-Die Time’ to Plan for Open Platforms
Prof. Ola Henfridsson has a curt warning for the European motor industry: “It must accept that cars have to become open platforms for digital technology.”
Articles Electronics & Computers
Automotive HMIs Aren’t Just for Driving Any More
Most autonomous driving discussions focus on the sensors that inform vehicle controls and the techniques those controls will use to make decisions and take action. But as autonomous...
Articles Transportation
To Serve and Protect
Automotive security concerns have rapidly evolved from physical equipment like door locks to cybersecurity concerns for connected vehicles. Developers are now deploying encryption, standards, and other techniques in...
Product Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Electro-Hydraulic Steering Unit
Concentric AB’s new electro-hydraulic steering (EHS) unit, designed primarily for servo steering applications in trucks, buses, and off-highway applications, offers system power savings through its variable...
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Faster, Lighter: Lotus Reveals Its Quickest Road Car Yet
With an all-new lightweight composite bodyshell, supercharged 336-kW (450-hp) V6 engine, and an open cockpit without windshield or doors, Lotus’s stark new no-nonsense 3-Eleven is...
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JLR Reveals Some R&D Secrets
Watching the alpha and beta waves of one’s brain undulating across a screen while gripping a steering wheel, is one of the more bizarre experiences of automotive R&D. But that is what JLR (Jaguar Land...
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Ford Expands ‘Split-View’ Camera Applications in SUVs, Trucks
Ford’s latest vehicle camera technology can help drivers see around corners. The optional “split-view” camera feature enables a view of traffic and obstacles that enter...
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Mounting Structure Stiffness Critical for Isolation Performance on Off-Highway Machines
Off-highway machine mounting systems, especially the cab mounting system, significantly affect the operator comfort in the cab by providing enough...
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Compact Tire-Pressure Monitoring
Freescale Semiconductor’s FXTH87 tire-pressure monitoring system family provides low-power consumption, extended battery life, and functional integration in a compact, 0.3-g (0.01-oz), 7 x 7 x 2.2-mm (0.28 x...
Product Briefs Electronics & Computers
Current Sense Resistor
KOA Speer Electronics introduced the new SLN3 molded current sense resistor, featuring a 3-W power rating in 4528 size. The SLN3 is a molded resin resistor that provides excellent dimensional accuracy, mountability, and...
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Mitsubishi Puts NVH in 2016 Outlander's Crosshairs
Two years after the third-generation Mitsubishi Outlander arrived in the U.S. market, the crossover utility vehicle was revised for the 2016 MY with new signature front-end styling and...
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Growing Natural Tire Rubber in North America
Despite ongoing advances in polymer chemistry and biochemistry, natural rubber made from rubber trees continues to be crucial to the global tire industry. This is because synthetic rubber often...
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SAE and IEEE Join Forces to Explore Potential IoT Standards
SAE International and IEEE are jointly exploring a standards framework related to the rapidly emerging Internet of Things (IoT)—the billions of interconnected “smart” devices...
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Power Connector System
Molex Inc. has introduced the Super Sabre Power Connector System for all high-current applications where flexible wire-to-wire and wire-to-board configurations are required. Delivering 34.0 A per blade in a 7.50-mm pitch...
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NASA Tests Aircraft Wing Coatings that Slough Bug Guts
Bug guts create drag, and drag increases fuel consumption. But aircraft of the future could be made more fuel-efficient with non-stick coatings NASA recently tested on Boeing’s...
INSIDER Energy
Fuel Cell Carts Deliver Power to Airplane Galleys
Airplane galleys consume a huge amount of power. Additional power units may soon come to the rescue: housed inside trolley carts in the galleys, these units deliver both supplemental power and...
Technology Report Automotive
Aluminum Frame Rails, New Alloy Castings from Alcoa Help Cut 2500 Lb from Tractor-Trailers
A custom tractor-trailer technology demonstrator built by Alcoa is outfitted with various current and “soon-to-be-available” aluminum solutions...
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Dassault Systèmes on Everyone’s Side with 3D Visualization for Cabin Design
Dassault Systèmes announced just prior to Paris Air Show the launch of “Passenger Experience,” what it describes as a new aerospace and defense industry...
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How Airbus is Using w-DED to 3D Print Larger Titanium Airplane Parts
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Microvision Aquires Luminar, Plans Relationship Restoration, Multi-industry Push
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A Next Generation Helmet System for Navy Pilots
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New Raytheon and Lockheed Martin Agreements Expand Missile Defense Production
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CES 2026: Bosch is Ready to Bring AI to Your (Likely ICE-powered) Vehicle
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Advantages of Smart Power Distribution Unit Design for Automotive...
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Quiet, Please: NVH Improvement Opportunities in the Early Design...
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Cooling a New Generation of Aerospace and Defense Embedded...
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Battery Abuse Testing: Pushing to Failure
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