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The International Fight over EFuels, Internal Combustion’s Would-Be Savior
Efuels, synthetic gasolines made from captured carbon dioxide and renewable energy (usually wind and solar power) are“ a valuable part of the solution” said...
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CES 2025: Gentex Improves Dimmable Glass Visors with Vanity Mirror
If you are someone who has wrestled with a too-small sun visor in your vehicle, Gentex’s improved dimmable sunshades might be one of the most practical innovations to get...
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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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Volvo Charts Its Path Towards Zero Emissions
Volvo Trucks is betting on themselves to reach the aggressive goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. The company is taking an almost fanatical approach to its emissions reduction targets in...
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Are We Stuck with Lithium-Ion?
There’s no shortage of alternatives to lithium-ion EV batteries in development. From lithium-iron phosphate to sodium-ion to multiple solid-state chemistries, companies are racing to perfect these...
News Propulsion
WCX 2024: Volunteers Sought for SAE’s AWIM Student Challenges
Raise your hand if you want to get kids excited about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Connecting fun and STEM skills is a key aspect of being an industry...
Articles Power
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,...
Articles Power
Hyliion Shifts Focus from Propulsion to Power Generation
Hyliion acquired the Karno generator technology from GE Additive in August 2022 to employ as a fuel-agnostic power system on its Hypertruck platform, which was revealed as a...
Technical Innovation Energy
‘Electronification’ of Working Hydraulics in Compact Machines
Compact off-highway machines should be as maneuverable, versatile and energy-efficient as possible. Key to achieving these goals is the electronification of the working...
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Update on Machine-Learned Correctness Properties
Despite the potential advantages to be derived from employing autonomous systems, evidence-based assurance of dependability is a key to obtaining users’ trust in these systems.
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Kodiak Targets Class 8 Electric Truck for Autonomous System
Kodiak Robotics introduced what it claims is an industry-first at the 2023 Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo: an autonomous Class 8 truck that is fully electric. Kodiak...
Articles Manned Systems
Constructing Lightweight Bus Structures with Stainless Steel
The weight of a typical bus could be reduced by up to 35% – more than 1,000 kg (2,205 lbs.) – by using high-strength stainless steel to replace tubular bus-frame elements...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
A Connected Approach to Auxiliary Battery Control
As vehicles become electrified and more “intelligent,” the energy consumption of the auxiliary system increases rapidly. The auxiliary battery, typically a 12V unit, acts as the...
Articles Connectivity
Honda’s Hydrogen Progress
Is the long-promised “hydrogen economy” still 15 years away, as it reportedly has been for… more than 15 years? Or is it just around the corner? SAE Media traveled to Honda’s U.S. campus in Torrance,...
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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 had...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Balancing the ‘Dominos’ in EV Thermal Management
Electric vehicle thermal management requires OEMs and suppliers to control many variables that potentially create excessive heat. Designing thermal-management systems (TMS) to...
Supplier Eye Connectivity
Are You Prepared for Scope 3?
Suppliers’ heads keep spinning. If the challenges of inflation, energy costs, logistics and labor scarcity weren’t enough chaos, here comes another hurdle: The ongoing push for de-carbonization —...
Articles Power
Vibration Testing NASA’s X-57 Maxwell Electric Aircraft
In place of the usual gasoline-powered motors, the X-57 has two all-electric motors powered by traction batteries.
Original Equipment Connectivity
Quantron Launches 12-M Battery-Electric Bus; Fuel-Cell Variant to Follow
New European bus manufacturer Quantron has launched its first product, the Cizaris, a 12-meter (39.4-ft) long electrically powered bus. The German company was...
Technical Innovation Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Altair Honors Weight-Saving Innovations
Sustainable and stylish: two words not commonly paired but that aptly apply to this year’s Altair Enlighten Award winner for Sustainable Product – Vehicle, the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E. The...
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Stellantis Goes All-In on EVs
Five months after the merger of auto giants FCA and PSA into Stellantis, the new Euro-American OEM unveiled on July 8 its strategy to attain global leadership in electrified vehicle (EV) development,...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
ZF Hikes Performance of ProAI Supercompute Platform
Although multinational supplier ZF is widely recognized for conventional components such as its transmissions and braking systems, at April’s Auto Shanghai – one of the few major auto...
Articles Energy
Pumping EV Heat
The Automotive Career Development Center (ACDC) that I founded over 20 years ago provides training and tech support to the world’s independent electric-vehicle (EV and hybrid) technicians, who will be asked to fix and...
News Energy
Constellium Develops New Alloys for EV Battery Enclosures
Aluminum is the dominant material for electric vehicle (EV) battery enclosures for one simple but significant factor: lightweighting capability. All currently available long-range...
News Energy
Powering the IoT Without Batteries Using Energy Harvesting
Ensuring that vehicles are reliably connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) is only possible when every step of the IoT is itself robust. A vehicle-to-home-thermostat connection,...
Articles Nanotechnology
NAWA Aims for 5-Minute EV Charge
A French nanomaterials company has developed a technology that it claims can significantly increase the storage efficiency of electric vehicle batteries. NAWA Technologies’ Ultra-Fast Carbon Electrode...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Creating Safe, Reliable Circuits for Next-Gen EVs
Designing circuits for electrified vehicles is extremely challenging. To ensure robust and safe designs that can withstand overloads, transients, and electrostatic discharge (ESD),...
Articles Energy
Supplier Tech Gets the Germs Out
Confidence in autonomous and rideshare mobility took a significant dive in 2020, as consumers shunned public transport due to the coronavirus pandemic. Technologies to safeguard the health and safety of...
News Energy
Intertek Rethinks the EV Test Facility
In planning its all-new European test facility dedicated to electrified vehicles, Intertek Transportation Technologies started with a consideration even more important than the latest dynamometers and...
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