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New Products

See the new products, including Webasto's traction batteries, which are increasing from 35 to 40 kilowatt hours; Avery Dennison's pressure-sensitive adhesive tape solutions for EV battery cell wrapping applications; Thermo Fisher Scientific's Thermo Scientific™ LInspector™ Edge In-line Mass Profilometer; and more.

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Energy

Cheaper and Safer Battery Storage

Researchers have developed a new technique to solve the problem of how to increase the capacity of sodium-ion batteries. Read on to learn more about it.

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Energy

Anode-Free Sodium Solid-State Battery

A team has created the world’s first anode-free sodium solid-state battery. This research has brought the reality of inexpensive, fast-charging, high-capacity batteries for electric vehicles and grid storage closer than ever. Read on to learn more.

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Energy

Iron Could Be Key to Less Expensive, Greener Lithium-Ion Batteries

Researchers are hoping to spark a green battery revolution by showing that iron instead of cobalt and nickel can be used as a cathode material in lithium-ion batteries. Read on to learn more.

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Energy

A New Way to Enhance Durability of Lithium Batteries

Researchers have been developing batteries with higher energy storage density, and thus, longer driving range. Other goals include shorter charging times, greater tolerance to low temperatures, and safer operation. One of the more promising such batteries has a lithium-containing cathode supplemented with nickel, manganese, and cobalt (NMC). Read on to learn more.

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Briefs
Energy

Algorithms to Enhance Reliability of Electric Vehicle Charging

American drivers have long been accustomed to quickly filling up at a gas station with plenty of fuel available, and electric vehicle drivers want their pit stops to mimic this experience. Researchers are working to make EV charging more resilient. Read on to learn more about it.

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Articles
Power

Battery Progress, But What’s the Holdup in Adoption?

There’s no shortage of alternatives to lithium-ion EV batteries in development. From lithium-iron phosphate to sodium-ion to multiple solid-state chemistries, companies are racing to perfect these technologies and figure out how to manufacture them at scale. Read on to find out what the holdup is.

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Articles
Energy

Enhancing EV Battery Design with Advanced Testing

This article explores how advanced testing using end-to-end EV battery test systems can improve the quality and performance of EV battery designs. Read on to learn more.

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Technology Report
Power

Off-Highway Hybrids Are Entering Prime Time

Vocational off-highway vehicles are piling on the miles with power provided by an internal combustion engine (ICE) with additional hybrid technology. “We often get asked the question,...

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Technology Report
Connectivity

Cybersecurity Expert Says Crowdstrike and CDK Global Incidents Serve as Wake-Up Calls

When cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike’s platform went down in July, it became the most significant outage in the history of information technology,...

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Articles
Power

Thermal Management Lies at the Heart of EV Innovation

At the heart of innovations that have powered improvements in EV range and performance is the pursuit of efficiency. Today’s electric drivetrains convert over 85% of a battery’s...

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Original Equipment
Mechanical & Fluid Systems

HD Hyundai Rolls out a Slew of New Machines

HD Hyundai recently announced several new additions to its portfolio of off-highway machines. The expansion includes the HD100 dozer, the HX355A excavator, and a quartet of new models for its...

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News
Energy

Brownout for Commercial-Vehicle Electrification?

The high cost of batteries to electrify on-road commercial vehicles is one thing. But some connected with or studying electrification for the CV sector now are concerned that the cost of...

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Technical Innovation
Green Design & Manufacturing

Sinonus Carbon-Fiber Structural Batteries Would Reduce Weight While Adding Range

Carbon-fiber structural batteries are not entirely new, but now Sinonus, a company spun out of Chalmers Technical University in Gothenburg, Sweden, is further...

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INSIDER
Manufacturing & Prototyping

Pangea Aerospace to Design Next Generation Rocket Engine for European Space Agency

Pangea Aerospace has been tasked by the European Space Agency (ESA) to design and identify de-risking technologies for a Very High Thrust rocket engine for...

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INSIDER
Electronics & Computers

How European Collaboration is Driving an Open Source Revolution in the Chip Space

The open source software ‘movement’ has already transformed computer operating systems. Can it do the same for semiconductors? European leaders think so....

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Manned Systems

New Cognitive 'MIMO' Drone Radar Completes Flight Testing in Germany

An ever-growing number of aircraft now share the airspace over urban areas. Drones are increasingly being used for a wide range of applications, including in Class G...

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Podcasts
Data Acquisition

Streaming Video Over Legacy Military Tactical Networks

Joshua Cryer, President and CEO of Reticulate Micro, is the guest on this episode of the Aerospace & Defense Technology Podcast.

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News
Electronics & Computers

Valeo Moves to Support the Progression to Electrified Vehicles

Whether it’s reinventing the vehicle cabin, repackaging power products, or writing new software code, Valeo is focused on smarter mobility technologies. “When you put it...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Europe’s Aviation Regulator Mandates Inspections of Some Airbus A350 Trent XWB Engines

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has issued Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2024-0182 for Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines fitted on Airbus...

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Editorial
Manufacturing & Prototyping

Making Machines Software-Defined No Simple Task

Software-defined machines (SDMs) were a top-of-mind topic at the recent 2024 SAE COMVEC event in Schaumburg, Illinois, with experts expounding on where the industry stands today and where it...

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News
Energy

Case Launches ‘Industry First’ Electric Backhoe Loader

Case Construction Equipment launched its first electric vehicle (EV) products last year – the CX15EV mini excavator and the SL22EV small articulated loader – and the company...

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Technical Innovation
Software

Navigating the Future of AI

Every fall, SAE International’s COMVEC symposium brings leaders from the on-highway, off-highway and defense sectors together to collaborate on solutions for the macro and micro challenges within the...

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News
Manufacturing & Prototyping

BMW, Classiq Find Better Architectures Through Quantum Computing

As part of BMW’s Emerging Technologies team, Lukas Müller picks apart new ideas to evaluate if they are relevant for the automaker. He wasn’t the first at BMW to look...

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INSIDER
Defense

Honeywell Launches New System to Counter Drone Swarms

Honeywell has announced the launch of its new Stationary and Mobile UAS Reveal and Intercept System, designed to counter drone swarms through advanced detection, tracking and...

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