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Moving Targets: How Improvements to SiC, GaN Power Electronics Will Redefine EV

Better power electronics are on the way, thanks to private-public efforts that go back years.

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Power

WCX 2025: Vicor’s New Power Modules Arrive with 48V

As the automotive industry debates the merits of a 48V power network compared to keeping legacy 12V power networks, Vicor will present some of its newest high-power-density DC-DC...

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Unmanned Systems

Autonomous Trucking Tech Hits High Gear

After a tumultuous 2023 that saw several autonomous trucking startups pivot out of or exit the arena entirely, there has been a recent resurgence of investment and efforts to bring the vision of...

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Energy

2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 Brings All the Right Updates

The place doesn’t look like much: A Sonic drive-through in Cathedral City, California, and a row of eight Tesla Superchargers. But the 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 I’m driving is helping to...

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Energy

FPT’s Battery Pack Dives into Marine Market

FPT Industrial formed its ePowertrain department in 2018 and since has developed a range of electric drivelines, battery packs and battery management systems (BMS) targeting on-road commercial...

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Mechanical & Fluid Systems

Case Study: Accuracy Is Key in AHP Hydraulics’s New Ball Joint Tester

Belgian solutions integrator AHP Hydraulics faced a certified stumper of a challenge from client SIDEM NV, which develops and produces automotive suspension and...

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Software

Power over Coaxial in Automotive: A Simplified Path to Advanced Vehicle Systems

As automotive technology advances, modern vehicles increasingly rely on complex electronics such as cameras, sensors, radar, and lidar. These components are...

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Connectivity

CES 2025 Preview: All the Tech That’s Fit to Print

Software trends continue to dominate the automotive industry’s collective brainpower, but as OEMS take a moment to breathe and possibly regroup on self-driving technology, much of the...

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Power

CES 2025: Cat Debuts Hybrid-Electric Retrofit on 972 Wheel Loader

A 55,000-lb (24,948-kg) front end loader with substantial field usage time underwent a 12-week hybrid-electric conversion in advance of its CES 2025 debut. “This...

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Software

Securing the Software-Defined Vehicle

Old car models with mechanical components are rapidly giving way to the increasingly software-defined vehicle (SDV) with features that not only allow drivers and passengers to stay connected to the...

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Software

Driving Success with the Software-Defined Product

Across industries, more and more products are becoming smart and connected devices. The cellphone is the quintessential example of this development. It has evolved beyond a single-purpose...

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Materials

Coherix’s Laser-Based Computer-Vision Improves Electronics Manufacturing

An industry-first 3D laser-based, computer-vision system can monitor and control the application of adhesive beads as tiny in width as two human hairs. This unique...

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Design

2025 Ford Bronco Sport Proves Sasquatch Fits on Smaller SUV

It’s been four years since the Bronco Sport launched and the “baby” Bronco has been finding its place in Ford’s line-up since 2020. For the 2025 model year, Ford is adding...

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Materials

UX Work Underway to Make Alphabet Soup, Control Icons Easier on Drivers

At the InCabin USA interior vehicle technology expo in Detroit in May, Ford customer research lead Susan Shaw said that the sea of letters around ADAS features and...

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Semiconductors & ICs

EV Energy Management Powers Up

Future electric vehicles will be more efficient, more powerful, and will be able to hold more energy in their batteries than today’s EVs. Those big “mores” require countless small improvements beyond the headline component — batteries. Read on to learn more.

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Design

Advancing HMI Development of ADAS and Active Safety Systems

The advancement of vehicles with enhanced safety and infotainment features has made evaluating human-machine interfaces (HMI) in modern commercial and industrial vehicles crucial....

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Electronics & Computers

NRL Scientists Deliver Quantum Algorithm to Develop New Materials and Chemistry

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists published the Cascaded Variational Quantum Eigensolver (CVQE) algorithm in a recent Physical Review Research article, which is expected to become a powerful tool to investigate the physical properties in electronic systems.

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Imaging

WCX 2024: The Technologies That Will Define Future Mobility

The migration to vehicle electrification and autonomy is ushering in product development changes with software coding and artificial intelligence (AI) performing disruptor roles....

Technical Innovation

Electronics & Computers

Thermal Management for Off-Highway Vehicles

As demand increases for electric and hybrid technology advancements in the North American market, off-highway vehicles are subject to many challenges. These range from vibration and shock impacts...

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Electronics & Computers

Kia Takes Aim at Commercial Vans with PBV Concepts

Kia is positioning itself to make waves in the commercial vehicle sector. At CES 2024 in Las Vegas, the company pulled back the curtains on its electrified commercial van lineup. Though...

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Propulsion

2025 Kia Carnival MPV Hybrid Brings Unplugged PHEV Power

The 2025 Kia Carnival MPV is acquiring a hybrid powertrain as part of the minivan’s model year update that debuted at the Chicago Auto Show. The internal-combustion engine option...

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Electronics & Computers

Modine Targets Off-Highway EVs with ‘Plug-And-Play’ BTMS

Suppliers increasingly are developing and integrating thermal-management solutions to meet the specific demands of off-highway EVs. Deutronic, for instance, develops technology...

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Electronics & Computers

EV Energy-Management Powers-Up

Future electric vehicles will be more efficient, more powerful and will be able to hold more energy in their batteries than today’s EVs. Those big “mores” require countless small improvements beyond the...

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Electronics & Computers

Sensor Fusion Expanding in Step with Advancing Vehicle Sophistication

When drivers of passenger vehicles change lanes, brake at stop lights, or accelerate on the highway, they’re probably not thinking about sensors. Sensors monitor,...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Daimler Truck and Torc Intensify Pursuit of Autonomous Trucks

Several autonomous-truck startups faltered in 2023. Another blow to the sector came in December, when TuSimple laid off about 150 employees, or 75% of its U.S. workforce, as it...

Technical Innovation

Electronics & Computers

Fuel-Cell Power for Monster Mining Trucks in GM, Komatsu Deal

In the latest announcement from GM regarding commercialization of its longstanding hydrogen fuel-cell research and development, it and commercial-vehicle specialist Komatsu said...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Key Measurements to Maintain Performance of Critical Electronic Systems on Military Aircraft and Warships

Wireless technology is a critical element of the modern battlefield, making accurate and consistent transmissions of high-speed data essential for mission success. Ensuring wireless system performance has additional challenges when implemented on warships and aircraft.

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Electronics & Computers

‘Zonal’ for the Win

Multiple trends are driving the evolution of electric vehicles (EVs), hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). Urbanization and sustainability pressures have spurred governments...

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Energy

Cadillac Counts on 2025 Escalade IQ for EV Sizzle

General Motors said it’s all-in on transitioning its entire passenger-vehicle lineup to EVs and there may be no more critical litmus test of the strategy than the reception for the...