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Perkins Bets Big on Smaller Engine for Off-Highway Machines
Perkins Powertrain announced its all-new engine series for off-highway applications, launching the 2600 Series 13-liter engine at a press event in London where SAE Media was in...
Q&A Energy
Volvo’s Ambitious Goal: 50% Zero-Emission Trucks by 2030
Volvo Trucks’ target is to be completely fossil-free by 2040. “If we stop selling products that rely on CO2 by 2040, it means that our running population [of...
Original Equipment Electronics & Computers
Nikola Producing Battery-Electric Trucks, Fuel-Cell EVs Coming
Fuel-cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) are a highway rarity despite decades of technology development. “When I was working in Europe 20 years ago, I was driving fuel-cell...
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Caterpillar Unveils New C13D Off-Highway Engine Platform
Caterpillar has launched its new off-highway 13-liter diesel engine platform, the C13D, at CONEXPO 2023 in Las Vegas. Cat states that the C13D was “purpose-built for rugged,...
Technical Innovation Energy
HD Hyundai Envisions Future of Sustainable Energy
HD Hyundai has lofty plans for the future of hydrogen propulsion and production. At CES 2023, the company made several announcements about its vision for “Ocean Transformation,”...
Editorial Energy
Zeroing in on Zero-Carbon Fuels
COP27, the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference that took place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, over a two-week span in November, helped bring global attention to the need for significant reductions...
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Liebherr Goes All in on Hydrogen Fuel
At the Bauma conference in late October, Liebherr displayed two prototype H2-fueled engines, the H964 and H966, to showcase its hydrogen-engine technology. Each prototype employed a different...
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New Chemistry Aims to Slash Fuel-Cell PGM Costs by 50%
Hydrogen fuel cells are steadily proving to be a competitive zero-emissions solution for powering heavy trucks, railway locomotives and ships, as well as for various...
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Emerson Supports Scalability of Fuel Cell Systems
Green hydrogen is a promising fuel on the path to decarbonizing the mobility sector, proven by significant investments in many transportation projects and technologies. New fuel cell...
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SAE WCX 2022: Paving the Way for the Hydrogen Highway
With the majority of public debate centering around the internal combustion engine (ICE)-to-EV transition, the engineering community continues to explore alternative forms of...
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Digitalization in the Aerospace Sector
The aerospace and defense industry has laid ambitious plans to reconcile mobility with sustainability. Sustainable aviation fuels, electrification, hydrogen-powered aircraft and eVTOLS (electric...
News Transportation
Hitting the Gas on Hydrogen Tech for Commercial Trucks
While not as in vogue as BEVs and other electrified vehicles, hydrogen propulsion systems have been in development since the mid-20th century by a wide variety of manufacturers for...
Articles Energy
Steel Sector Aids Sustainability Efforts
Volvo Group partners with SSAB on ‘green steel’ for off-highway machines and with Ovako for access to fossil-free hydrogen.
News Aerospace
Extending a Wankel Future on Hydrogen Fuel
Could the Wankel rotary engine have a major future as a hydrogen-fueled, zero-emissions range-extender engine? Alternative fuel cells are still under development and there are technical hurdles...
News Power
Electrification and the Other “E” – E-Fuels
PACCAR executive Phil Stephenson discussed at SAE COMVEC 2021 the why, how and when of commercial-vehicle electrification, but also put in a plug for e-fuels.
News Energy
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,...
Articles Energy
Engineering an Aircraft Hydrogen Powertrain
The commercial aviation industry is taking critical steps towards zero-carbon aviation.
Technical Innovation Energy
Mahle’s Hydrogen Focus Spans Fuel Cells, ICEs
Hydrogen fuel cell (HFC) technology is gaining momentum in the mobility sector, with substantial volume expected by 2025 to 2030, according to Dr. Marco Warth, director of corporate...
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Mahle Amps up Its Electrification R&D
Best known for pistons and other reciprocating components inside internal combustion engines (ICE), Stuttgart-based Tier 1 Mahle claims it’s keeping the R&D throttle wide open to cement its...
Q&A Design
CNH's CEO: Big Nikola Investment Also Benefits Off-Highway Biz
CNH Industrial is separating its On-Highway (commercial vehicles and powertrain) and Off-Highway (agriculture, construction and specialty vehicles) segments into two listed...
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Alakai Technologies Unveils the World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Urban Air Mobility Vehicle
Alakai Technologies Corporation has unveiled a new urban air mobility (UAM) vehicle. “Skai,” Alakai Technology’s electric vertical takeoff...
Technology Report Weapons Systems
New Four-Chamber Rotary Engine Could Supplant Wankel and Piston Engines for UAV Applications
The Wankel rotary engine has been an ideal choice for many owners and operators of small, propeller-driven aircraft. Compared to conventional...
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Nano-Based Ultracap Tech Boosts EV Power Density
French nanomaterials specialist NAWA Technologies is aiming to bring a new dimension to the automotive industry’s use of the word “hybrid.” It is aiming to link high efficiency new...
Articles Propulsion
TARDEC Pursues Advanced Power Generation
In the middle of a desert or other remote military zone, advanced power generation can keep the U.S. Army’s ground vehicles and combat support equipment ready for the demands of duty.
Articles Energy
Zero-Emissions Electric Aircraft: Theory vs Reality
Many different electrically propelled aircraft have been or are soon to be flying. Recently a zero-emissions electric aircraft, Solar Impulse, flew around the world with zero fuel....
News Energy
Thermal Management for Fuel-Cell Systems Studied
Reducing the environmental impact of aircraft in terms of carbon dioxide, noise, and pollutant emissions is an important objective. Fuel-cell systems deliver electrical energy with high...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Variable-Thrust, Multiple-Start Hybrid Motor Solutions
Interceptor boost propulsion has traditionally been dominated by solid rocket systems due to their responsiveness and high mass fraction capabilities. However, increased costs of...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Micro-Propulsion Devices Made of Low-Temperature Co-Fired Ceramics
In the satellite industry, the trend is towards decreasing the size of satellites and clustering of small satellites. Technological advancements in microelectronics have made it more economical to launch a cluster of satellites with a single vehicle rather than the traditional...
Briefs Materials
Templated Synthesis of Aluminum Nanoparticles for Stable Energetic Materials
Reactive nanoparticles as energetic materials have received much recent attention for a variety of existing and/or potential applications. Among more extensively...
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NVH Prediction in Electric Powertrains: Considering Inverter and...
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