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Yokohama Rolls out Latest Off-Highway Radial
Yokohama announced a new off-highway radial tire as well as new sizes for existing tire families at CONEXPO 2023 in Las Vegas. The Galaxy Hippo all-steel radial high-traction loader tire was...
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Battle for the Box
Whether you call them packs, boxes, or trays, the structures that envelop and protect EV battery cells and their supporting electrical and thermal-management hardware are among the industry’s top subsystem...
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Solving Signal Interference Challenges in Aerospace and Defense Electronics
As the complexity of signal challenges in aerospace and defense technology increases, design engineers need to creatively combine materials to solve multiple problems at once.
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2022 Honda Civic Hatchback Enjoys Premium Assembly, Weight-Cutting Measures
As a veteran manufacturing engineer, Jill Fuel was an ideal choice for the project leader for the production launch of Honda’s 2022 Civic Hatchback at Honda's...
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SAE International Extends Call for Abstracts, Seeks Submissions for AeroTech Conference
Engineering Events staff at SAE International in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, have extended the call for abstracts through September 21 for the...
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Rivian R1T Analyzed by Teardown Expert
Rivian’s R1T is in big demand by both the public and the industry. OEMs are still scrambling to acquire their own examples of the pioneering, innovative electric pickup for competitive analysis...
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Airflow Concept Presents Chrysler EV Direction
In a far corner of the main exhibition hall of the 2022 New York International Auto Show, its display flanked by the latest products from Ram and Jeep, Stellantis rolled out a second...
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Molded RF Materials for Hypersonic Sensors and Seekers
Hypersonics and the materials needed therein are critical to both our nation’s defense and our national economy, says one feature writer.
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3DEO Launches New Metal 3D-Printing Platform
California-based 3DEO unveiled in February its new metal 3D printing platform and patented technology, Saffron. The proprietary platform has been in development for the past five years....
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3D Printing Scales-Up
While the 3D-printed vehicle remains a dream, the technology also known as additive manufacturing (AM) already has proven its ability to create impressively complex part geometries in concepts such as EDAG’s...
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Ultrasonics to Keep Lidar Clean
Mobility engineers often note that autonomous vehicles are only as good as their sensors and the algorithms within. But the reliability and driving precision of an AV involves an equally important factor:...
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Virtual and Physical Testing of Third-Generation High Strength Steel
Developing lightweight, stiff and crash-resistant vehicle body structures requires a balance between part geometry and material properties. High-strength materials...
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Directing GM’s 3D-Printed Future
Among automakers, General Motors was an early adopter of 3-D printing/additive manufacturing (AM) in the 1980s and is accelerating both its use of, and investment in, the technology. Nearly 40,000...
Articles Materials
Tesla Casts a New Strategy for Lightweight Structures
Aluminum is synonymous with “weight-saving” in most contemporary automotive-engineering reference points. But apart from a few applications – most notably Ford’s F-Series...
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Tesla’s Cybertruck Is Audaciously Austenitic
Not since Ford’s epic switch to aluminum for its F-Series body structures has an automaker’s materials strategy created such a buzz. Tesla’s decision to use stainless steel for its...
News Materials
Moving Metal AM Forward
The global 3D-printing metals market was estimated to be US $774 million in 2019, according to a recent research report by MarketsandMarkets. The research company projects the market to reach more than US $3.1...
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British HFQ Process May Enhance Aluminum’s High-Volume Future
With this year’s end stage of a major collaborative R&D project, the longstanding competition between steel and aluminum for high-volume vehicle production is set to...
News Electronics & Computers
ALLEGRO Project Seeks to Boost Lightweight-Materials Durability
First define the lightweight material that best complements electric vehicle (EV) and automated-vehicle (AV) range efficiency – then optimize it for increased durability...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Quadricycle AV Pod Pops Open in London
Mobility “pods” regularly pop up in the automated-driving universe and the latest is a quadricycle prototype called MOTIV, claimed by its creators to “break the mold for future mobility...
Articles Propulsion
2019’s Best Automotive Plastics Innovations
The Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) annual Automotive Innovation Awards Competition, now in its 49th year, is considered the “Oscars” for those developing polymer and...
News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
New GM, LG Chem Joint Venture to Build EV Battery Plant in U.S.
General Motors and longtime battery partner LG Chem announced the companies are forming an equally-owned joint-venture (JV) company to mass-produce lithium-ion batteries...
Articles Mechanical & Fluid Systems
New Manufacturing Process for Monocoque Components
A new process enables large monocoque components to more accurately retain their shape after cooling.
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Teleoperations Will Keep Humans in the AV Loop
In March 2017, Leanid Tsurankou began working as a self-driving engineer for Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group in San Francisco. Those were heady days, when a wave of euphoria about...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Shape-Shifting Origami Could Help Antenna Systems Adapt On-the-Fly
Conventional reconfigurable electrical and radio frequency (RF) structures commonly used in applications involving real-time reconfigurability in response to fast varying...
News Materials
Diesel Darkness Won’t Go Away
Although it may takes years to avoid instantly associating the words “diesel” and “scandal,” Volkswagen – the auto company most closely linked with the diesel emissions-cheating scheme that...
News Materials
Sciaky, Aubert & Duval, and Airbus Join Together to Combine High-Power Forging with Additive Manufacturing
Sciaky, Inc., Aubert & Duval S.A., Airbus SE, and the Saint Exupéry Institute for Research in Technology (IRT) have laid out...
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Novelis Creates First Aluminum Sheet Battery Enclosure for Mass Electric Vehicle Production
Battery weight and power density is a major design consideration when it comes to electric and hybrid-electric vehicles. To reduce platform...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Automated-Vehicle ‘Goiters’ Be Gone!
Warts. Bumps. Blisters. Protruberances. These and other less-flattering terms are used by vehicle designers and engineers to describe the bulging, non-integrated sensor placement that has become...
News Energy
NAIAS 2019: Infiniti Debuts QX Inspiration SUV Concept
It’s an electrifying time at Infiniti as the brand prepares for its first all-electric vehicle. “In our mid-term, we are going to launch eight EVs between Nissan and Infiniti....
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