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Cummins Spools up New Turbo Tech
Cummins Inc. and Holset Turbocharger announced several technical revisions to their Series 850 turbocharger. The Series 850 turbo is intended for customers with high-horsepower engines ranging from 15-L...
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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...
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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...
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Liebherr Reveals ‘Hybrid’ CFRP Cylinders and Parallel-Pump Concept
Reducing weight from components and systems is a major trend in passenger vehicles to boost fuel efficiency and driving range.
Editorial Energy
Response to More-Rigid NOx and GHG Regs
The new low-NOx standards are part of the EPA’s Clean Trucks Plan that also includes “Phase 3” greenhouse gas standards for HD vehicles beginning in MY 2027.
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Scania Adapts On-Highway Diesel for New Off-Highway Engine Platform
Scania Power Solutions has launched a new engine platform designed to provide new power outputs, longer service intervals, longer base-engine operational life and...
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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...
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Hopeful but Closer Scrutiny for SAE Level 4 Automation
As the auto industry and its suppliers, along with technology developers and startups, recalibrate for what appears to be a new and more pragmatic phase of automated-driving...
Technology Report AR/AI
Brembo’s Sensify Aims to Revolutionize Braking
SAE Media recently participated with Brembo in a demonstration of the company’s new braking technology on the skid pad at the Michelin Laurens Proving Grounds in Mountville, South...
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New Biodiesel Strains Offer Measurable Gains
Extensive research and development of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) as a renewable and environmentally friendly fuel for diesel engines has been carried out by various OEMs and Tier 1s...
Briefs Propulsion
Fatigue Behavior of an Advanced Melt-Infiltrated SIC/SIC Composite with Environmental Barrier Coating at 1200°C in Air and in Steam
SiC fiber-reinforced SiC matrix composites are being evaluated for aircraft engine hot-section components.
Briefs Test & Measurement
Fabrication and Testing of High-Speed Single-Rotor and Compound-Rotor Systems
The X2 Technology Demonstrator recently achieved a level flight speed over 250 knots, proving the basic concept of the coaxial compound configuration.
Technical Innovation Materials
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...
Technical Innovation Test & Measurement
Perkins Expands Power Range with New Large Engines
The timing of Perkins Engines’ North American launch of its most powerful line of electronic engines, which delivers up to 1500-kWe emergency standby power for a range of critical...
News Energy
Deere Bullish on Biodiesel, Renewable Diesel
Petroleum-based fuels long have been the industry standard for heavy equipment primarily due to the lack of acceptable, cost-effective and reliable alternatives. But with growing interest in...
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Traxen ‘Trains’ AI-Based Adaptive Cruise Control for Trucks
Artificial intelligence (AI), high-definition maps, and advanced algorithms and sensors combine to enable Traxen’s intelligent adaptive cruise control (ACC) system for...
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Neste Targets Hard-To-Electrify Vehicles for Renewable Diesel
Commercial vehicles run under a wide range of operating conditions and duty cycles – not all are well-suited for battery-electric propulsion, particularly in the near term....
Briefs Data Acquisition
Exploring the Impact of Fuel Data Acquisition Technology on the USMC Expeditionary Energy Command and Control System
Understanding how delays in resource decision making and tactical supply chains relate to operational reach will give commanders the ability to maximize resources.
Technical Innovation Power
Electric Actuators Can Benefit Heavy-Duty Diesels
As the heavy-duty diesel (HDD) truck world looks to likely future alternative power sources – battery or fuel cell – R&D into improving internal-combustion engine (ICE)...
News Manned Systems
Mecalac Designs Unique-Pivoting Swing Loader
Mecalac markets itself as an urban-equipment manufacturer, and the company’s focus on designing machines for constricted-space jobsites so prevalent in cities is manifested in the AS1600...
News Manned Systems
Paving the Way to Improved Truck Fuel Efficiency
Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improving fuel efficiency are much-sought-after goals in the commercial-vehicle industry. Various methods have been proposed to achieve these...
News Data Acquisition
ConExpo 2020: Liebherr Equips Latest Crawler Excavator with Leica 3D Integrated Machine Control
Liebherr recently launched R26 crawler excavator is now equipped with a Leica-supplied Geosystem machine-control system. The Leica-equipped...
Technical Innovation Power
Commercial Trucks Employ Range of Power Systems
Regulations continue to transform the powerplants used in commercial trucks, making fuel consumption and emissions reductions twin goals for many OEMs, upfitters and aftermarket suppliers...
Technology Report Manned Systems
Cummins, Tula Test ‘Dynamic’ Cylinder Deactivation for Diesels
Tula Technology has supplied the control software for “dynamic” cylinder deactivation in gasoline engines since 2018, launching in General Motors’ 5.3- and 6.2-L...
Application Briefs Defense
UAV Fuel Management System
Valcor Engineering was tasked with creating a turn-key fuel management system for a new UAV.
Original Equipment Energy
Caterpillar Reveals Seven New Next-Gen Excavators, Increases Push for Remote Control
Caterpillar began launching its next-generation hydraulic excavators in late 2017, and the rollout continues two years later with the introduction of...
News Transportation
Engine Developers Increase Efforts to Decrease Fuel Usage
Engineers are leaving no stone unturned in their unceasing drive to improve fuel economy, leveraging electronics, monitoring airflow and using data from outside the vehicle....
Editorial Manned Systems
ConExpo & IFPE 2020: Go Big or Go Home
My inbox has been inundated with notifications of press conferences and exciting new construction equipment, power systems, and other advanced technologies to be revealed at the rapidly approaching...
Technical Innovation Manned Systems
Self-Driving Trucks Cut Fuel Consumption by 10%
Enhancing safety and helping combat driver shortages are two benefits that heavy-duty autonomous-truck proponents have preached during development. You can now add significant fuel savings...
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High-Resolution In-line X-ray Imaging for Lithium-Ion Battery...
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Choosing a Silicone for Operation in Harsh Thermal Environments
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