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Finding Range Through Compute Efficiency
This past January, I was among tens of thousands who returned to Las Vegas for CES—the show’s reawakening after the pandemic. Some definite themes emerged from the dozens of conversations I...
News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Danfoss Targets Excavators with New Digital-Hydraulics System
Danfoss Power Solutions claims to increase the productivity of excavators while reducing their fuel consumption by up to 15% by swapping out the machine’s main hydraulic...
Q&A Energy
Perkins Tackles Decarbonization of Off-Highway Machines
Decarbonization is currently one of the biggest buzzwords in the off-highway sector. OEMs around the globe are now offering and researching solutions for their customers so that...
Road Ready Power
High-Performance Hybrid Headlines Lexus’s Re-Engineered RX Lineup
Electrification is a pillar of Lexus’s “next chapter.” The fifth-generation Lexus RX progresses this objective, offering four new powertrains including a...
News Motion Control
A Darker Side of the Chip-Shortage Story
The effects of the global semiconductor shortage on new-vehicle availability, and industry profits, are well known. But an even more significant effect of the “chip” shortage has been going...
News Electronics & Computers
Williams Debuts New Flexible Platform for BEVs and FCVs
Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) has unveiled its latest product, the EVR electric vehicle platform. It has been designed to provide an accelerated start to a high-performance...
News Motion Control
Gearing Dana for the EV Future
As Dana Inc. transitions further into electrified systems, it pays to have a Mechatronics engineer leading the company’s technology charge. Giulio Ornella, Dana’s VP of Global Engineering, has been...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Cadillac's Future-Tech Flagship
Restoring the Cadillac brand to its golden-age pinnacle, when it stood equal among Europe’s ultra-luxury greats, has long been an intermittent dream within GM. The grandiose ‘Sixteen’ concept in...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Hydraulic Fluids Evolve to Meet Critical Equipment-Design Trends
Driven by a number of factors, hydraulic equipment such as excavators, lifts, presses, bulldozers, cranes, injection molding equipment and more are rapidly evolving to...
Road Ready Unmanned Systems
NAIAS 2022: Seventh-Generation of Ford Mustang Is Highest Performer Yet
The exterior visuals still emphasize a long hood and a short deck, but the V8-powered 2024 Mustang GT’s mammoth air intakes are a telltale that things have...
News Connectivity
Securing CAN Networks in Commercial Vehicles
Commercial road vehicles are the backbone of the modern consumer economy. Almost any business from construction, to energy, to online retail at some point relies on the delivery of goods by...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Mission Control System
Collins Aerospace has successfully demonstrated a ready-now mission system.
Application Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
Ground Control System
Built around three core elements – software, hardware, and antennas – Crysalis was designed to simplify the operation of robotic systems.
Technical Innovation Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Terzo Strives to Electrify Fluid Power
The intricacies of a traditional hydraulic system are typically where technical issues arise, according to Mike Terzo, CEO of Terzo Power Systems. Simplifying the inherent complexity of fluid power...
News Power
Softing Supports a Standardized Diagnostic Protocol
On-board diagnostics (OBD) is required to monitor emissions-related components such as heavy-duty diesel engines and their emissions control systems. Though the use of electric drives...
News Motion Control
Solving the EV Range Vs. HVAC Dilemma
The loss in range from climate control operation on battery electric vehicles (BEV) has become a source of concern among automakers as many of them begin the transition from internal combustion...
Application Briefs Defense
Sonobuoy Dispensing & Remote Processing System
GA-ASI recently completed development and testing of the world's first self-contained anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability for an unmanned aircraft system.
News Energy
Mahle Powertrain Leveraging New Facilities in Electrified Shift
Mahle’s Powertrain group (MPT) has announced an ongoing €12M investment in new testing and development facilities. Part of a forward-looking strategy begun over a...
News Motion Control
Actuating Hybrid and EV Efficiency
Axle-disconnect systems have been a fuel-efficiency enabler in recent years, delivering improvements of up to 10% in all-wheel drive and four-wheel-drive cars and light trucks, depending on vehicle...
News Power
AI Points the Way to Better EV Battery Management
After two decades of significant advances in electric vehicle (EV) battery development, innovations continue to bring promises of greater battery performance, safety, faster charging,...
Articles Motion Control
Motorcycles Enter the ADAS Age
Motorcycles are finally entering the advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) age, dipping both wheels into autonomous waters with the production debut of adaptive cruise control (ACC). On passenger cars,...
News Software
Bigger Processors, Smaller Engines
Engine designers are advancing electronic control systems to eliminate components and generate more power from smaller engines. They also are leveraging networks to integrate transmissions, global...
Application Briefs Software
Weapon Fire Control System
Smart Shooter increases the accuracy and lethality of small arms.
News Connectivity
TI’s Wireless Approach to EV Battery Management
The battery pack of a typical electric vehicle (EV) contains a daisy-chain of wiring. Miles of copper cabling interlinked by hundreds of connectors. Even the battery management systems...
News Connectivity
Smart Tech Revolutionizing the Traffic Light
Every motorist has experienced the frustration of waiting at a red light when there is no traffic in sight. These days, countless household devices use sensors, cameras and connectivity to...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Software Shift: GM to Hire 3,000 Tech Engineers
General Motors announced on November 9 that it is looking to add 3,000 new technical positions before the second quarter of 2021 to bolster its virtual testing and software expertise. The...
News Energy
Multiphysics Helps Transform Modeling, Simulation
Modeling and simulation are showing no signs of slowing their expansion as critical elements of most design processes. Design software providers continue to advance tool capabilities,...
News Electronics & Computers
In Pursuit of the Silky-Smooth EV
For next-generation electric vehicles (EVs), absolute smoothness in every operating mode will be an essential criterion. It will be a product differentiator, along with greater range, while raising the...
Articles Design
Bits and Bytes Boost Hydraulic System Capabilities
Off-highway vehicles are typically admired for their power, but the driving force behind a growing number of performance improvements are the invisible bits and bytes of control...
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