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ACT Expo 2025: Battery Experts Fret Tariffs, Encourage Specific Designs
There’s a chaotic elephant in almost every room of the 2025 Advanced Clean Transportation Expo: Tariffs and the Trump administration’s seemingly hostile approach to environmentally friendly technology like EVs and alternative energy sources. Read on to learn more about it.
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Slate Unveils Bare-Bones EV Mini Truck
The American truck market is huge. The trucks, they're also quite large. Pickups went from workhorse machines to enormous luxury vehicles with equally large price tags. Even the Maverick, Ford’s...
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New York Auto Show 2025: News from the Floor
The 2025 edition of the New York International Auto Show proved some automakers still value the attention that comes with debuting a vehicle on a flashy convention center stage. Hyundai, Kia and...
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Challenges and Opportunities of Electrifying Off-Highway Machines
The off-highway machine industry is embracing new technologies to optimize operations, specifically regarding electric and hybrid off-highway equipment. The electric...
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ICE and Hybrid-Electric Propulsion Show Staying Power
The internal combustion engine. Hybrid-electric. Full-electric. Plug-in hybrid electric. Pick one, two, or more for the product portfolio.
Technology Report Test & Measurement
SAE J-3277 Covers Leak Testing for Every EV Battery
North American EV battery manufacturers currently do not test 100% of the cells they assemble into Rechargeable Energy Storage Systems (RESS, or battery packs) for electrolyte leakage....
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All (Robot) Hands on Deck
For more than 100 years, BMW has been manufacturing vehicles in the heart of downtown Munich at a three-story plant that currently produces 1,000 cars a day. At the same time, the plant is in a state of being both...
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WXC 2025: GM’s Hydrotec-Based EV Charger Takes Center Stage
In 2022, General Motors announced that it was exploring commercial applications for its Hydrotec hydrogen fuel cells. Those efforts have culminated in a mobile hydrogen power...
Technology Report Electronics & Computers
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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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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Elaphe Readies In-Wheel Motors for OEM EVs After 2030
Elaphe unveiled what it claims is the first and only in-wheel electric motor (IWM) designed to fit existing EVs at CES in January. Elaphe Propulsion Technologies, a pioneer of in-wheel...
Technology Report Materials
Accelerating Materials Development with Quantum Computing
As most engineers pursue ways to improve material properties such as longevity, corrosion resistance and eco-friendliness, quantum computing is emerging as a groundbreaking...
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Mitsubishi Fuso Announces Energy Storage Demonstration
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation has announced it will conduct a joint demonstration of its Battery 2nd Life initiative this year. This initiative will be jointly conducted...
Original Equipment Green Design & Manufacturing
Kalmar Launches 3rd-Gen Electric Terminal Tractor
Electric vehicle (EV) growth may be stagnant in certain market sectors amid pushback on EV mandates along with lingering infrastructure and TCO concerns, but in terminal tractor operations...
Q&A Energy
Siemens Senior Director for Battery Industry: Industrial AI Is Coming
Siemens is working to make industrial AI a reality. But, to integrate generative AI into industry, the AI has to be trained on the language of industry — engineering...
Articles Test & Measurement
How Emerging Technologies Can Transform EV Battery Reliability and Safety
As U.S. automakers evolve their lineups with new electric and hybrid vehicles, they face a significant challenge: meeting the increasing demand for affordable,...
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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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2026 Escalade IQL Is Cadillac’s Biggest, Roomiest EV Yet
Cadillac today unveiled the 2026 Escalade IQL electric vehicle, which maintains the Escalade IQ’s class-leading range but adds additional passenger and cargo space.
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Mercedes Proposes “In-Drive Brakes” for Better EVs
From humble Chevy Bolts to six-figure Lucid Airs, every EV can reverse its electric motors to slow the vehicle while harvesting energy for the battery, the efficient tag-team process...
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Battery Safety for a Zero-Incident Future
A fire on January 17 gutted what was reportedly the world’s largest battery storage plant in Moss Landing near Monterey, California. The blaze and concerns over air quality damaged by the toxic...
Technology Report Test & Measurement
Hydrogen Storage Tank Options: Not Everything Need Look like a Sausage
Since the 1860 Hippomoblie, hydrogen has been a part of powered mobility. Today, most hydrogen storage applications use cylindrical tanks, but other solutions are...
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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...
Articles Energy
A Week with the Hyundai Way
Hyundai’s recent Hyundai Way tech presentation week in Korea was, like the company’s future strategy, a cornucopia of technologies. The week included an EV-focused performance event co-sponsored with Toyota,...
Road Ready Green Design & Manufacturing
Suppliers Prepare for a Drop in EV Market Share
The already unsteady transition from fossil fuels to electrification is about to get bumpier. Just days after it became clear that Americans would be welcoming a new Republican White House...
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JLG Reveals New Electric Telehandler
JLG Industries has unveiled its first electric telehandler, the E313, designed for all-terrain and off-road use. The battery-powered E313 offers zero-emission and low-noise operation for moving...
Articles Energy
Hybrid Powertrains in the Product Mix
Perfect is the enemy of good. That aphorism embodies some of the frustrations voiced by trucking-industry companies and associations when it comes to satisfying lower greenhouse gas (GHG) and NOx...
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Near-Term Focus Can Obscure Reliable Path Forward
So often in our industry, we can be too focused on near-term opportunities and navigating immediate issues. With a new U.S. administration on the way in and more than a handful of other...
Original Equipment Energy
GM Defense Deploys Next Gen Tactical Vehicle
GM Defense has unveiled the future of its tactical vehicles with the Next Gen prototype, which was exhibited at the annual AUSA meeting in Washington, D.C. for the first time late last year.
Technical Innovation 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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