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Ceres Holographics, Appotronics Team for Windshield-Wide Laser HUD
Transparent display pioneer Ceres Holographics and laser display company Appotronics announced on Tuesday an agreement to combine their technologies to create transparent...
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Toyota Says Woven City Innovation Incubator Is Ready for Residents
At the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Toyota announced that it has completed phase one construction of what it calls Toyota Woven City, a full-scale area...
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Battery Analysis Pioneer: North America Has Five Years to Catch China
North American automakers and EV battery firms have five years to erase China’s dominance in technology and manufacturing or they may face the reality of buying...
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Developing Safer Batteries with Solid-State Polymer Electrolytes
A 100 percent solid-state, high-performance polymer electrolyte addresses issues with liquid electrolytes for safer battery cell designs. Read this article to learn more.
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MEMS Drive Wants to Shake up Automotive Sensor
Advanced optical image stabilization (OIS) technology used in mobile phones should have a home in the automotive world. Specifically, using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) to move an...
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New, Portable Antenna Could Help Restore Communication After Disasters
Researchers at Stanford University and the American University of Beirut (AUB) have developed a portable antenna that could be quickly deployed in disaster-prone areas or used to set up communications in underdeveloped regions.
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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....
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WCX 2024: Two Approaches to Mobility Engineering
A few years ago, traditional automotive companies basically shrugged their shoulders at EV newcomers. But traditionalist viewpoints are changing. “They’re learning from each other...
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ECARX’s Computing Platforms Ready for SDV Era
One did not have to attend too many press conferences at CES this year to understand that the Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) would be the big story for many automotive exhibitors.Global...
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Full Speed Ahead for Second-Generation Indy Autonomous Racers
After three years and more than 7,000 miles (11,265 km) of racing, the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) enters year four with an updated platform and embedded software upgrades....
Q&A Manufacturing & Prototyping
Axial Flux E-Motor Maker Progresses Toward Mobility, Alters Cooling Design
SAE Media first introduced readers to Infinitum in last year’s roundup of e-motor developments. (LINK) The company claims it made a 50% smaller and lighter...
Technology Report Manned Systems
CES: VinFast Previews Wild Concept Truck
VinFast used its third appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to introduce three new electric vehicles, including a midsize pick-up truck concept and a small CUV bound for the U.S....
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CES 2024: Bosch Shows Cabin-Monitoring Tech While Acknowledging Complexity
John Nowinski, Bosch’s North American project lead for interior sensing on cross-domain computing solutions, laid out a stark scenario that could be faced by...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
The Chaos of Automotive Data Privacy
Surveillance of vehicles and the people in them has been happening virtually since the time there was more than a handful of automobiles on the road. But in today’s vehicles that are increasingly...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Fully Stretchable Fabric-Based Lithium-Ion Battery
The future of wearable technology just got a big boost thanks to a team of University of Houston researchers who designed, developed, and delivered a successful prototype of a fully stretchable fabric-based lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery.
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Advancing Battery Technology: The 2023 Battery Show Preview
The largest battery and electric vehicle technologies trade show in North America.
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Advanced Electrical Architectures Demand New Developmental Strategies
A few days after speaking with Danny Shapiro, vice president, automotive at NVIDIA, a developer of systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) with performances measured in trillions of...
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2025 Ram 1500 REV Driving Range Would Jump to Head of Class
Stellantis’ Ram brand introduced more details about the 2025 Ram 1500 REV electric pickup at the New York International Auto Show in early April, and one option is an enormous...
News Design
Spelling Ford with an ‘E’
One year ago, Ford Motor Co. kicked off a new era in its long history when it bifurcated into two strategically interdependent auto businesses. Ford Blue, the “traditional” business, is responsible for the...
Articles Photonics/Optics
Lidar Vs. Everybody in the Onboard Sensor Race
Despite the industrywide realization that SAE driving automation Levels 4 and 5 are not imminent and instead long-term goals, development continues on the sensors that power current and future...
Technology Report Unmanned Systems
Turning the Vehicle into a Giant Microphone
When an emergency vehicle is approaching but its blaring siren isn’t heard by nearby motorists, all are put at risk. Engineers at Harman International have developed novel sensor technology that...
Briefs Energy
Sodium-Ion Battery Anode for Energy Storage
The high cost and limited supply of lithium necessitate the development of alternative energy storage systems.
News Materials
Recaro Pioneers Seating Shells Made with CF Recyclate
The green flag is about to drop on an auto-racing first: a seat shell infused with recycled carbon fiber.
Technology Report Unmanned Systems
A Divergent Approach to Vehicle Development and Production
Among the most intriguing vehicles on display at the 2022 Pebble Beach Concours D’ Elegance was a pair developed by an obscure brand, Czinger Vehicles, and its parent company,...
Articles Data Acquisition
Accessibility: The Future of Mobility
In August 1975, I headed west from Michigan in my new Chevy Van, personally customized for living on the road. My destination was the University of California, Berkeley, where I was enrolled to pursue...
News Sensors/Data Acquisition
Unzipping the Future of Sustainable Electronics
Electronic-systems designers are facing a serious reckoning: How to significantly reduce the environmental impact of more and more electronic content in new vehicles?
Articles Automotive
Advancing Battery Technology: The 2022 Battery Show Preview
The largest battery and electric vehicle technologies trade show in North America.
Articles AR/AI
Deere Advances In-Field Autonomy
John Deere got “really serious” about autonomy in 2019, according to Joe Liefer, senior product manager of autonomy at John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group. Three years later – after forming an...
Editorial Semiconductors & ICs
Unreliable Electronics Are the New Prince of Darkness
Younger engineers may be unfamiliar with Joseph Lucas Ltd., the infamous Tier-1 supplier of British automotive electrical and electronic woes. Lucas helped institutionalize, fairly or...
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