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Volvo Hits Milestones for Autonomous Trucks and Electrified Off-Highway Machine
Volvo made several key announcements at the 2024 ACT Expo in Las Vegas. The company also reaffirmed its goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions with a...
Articles Manned Systems
FirstElement Opens America’s First High-Volume, Fast-Fill Hydrogen Station for HD Trucks
It may be missing the food and hospitality trappings of what most would consider a proper “truck stop,” but the nation’s first high-volume,...
News Manned Systems
ACT Expo: Honda Shows Class 8 Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Truck Concept
Honda debuted a Class 8 hydrogen fuel-cell truck concept — a Peterbilt Model 579EV battery-electric tractor retrofitted with three new Honda fuel cell (FC) systems — at...
News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
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...
News AR/AI
WCX 2024: Come for the AI, Stay for the Optimism
The never-ending task of wrapping one’s head around the auto industry continues at SAE’s annual WCX technical mobility event in Detroit in April. A series of keynotes will discuss the...
Technical Innovation Energy
Fuel Cell Production Spurs Supplier Opportunities
The head of General Motors’ global fuel-cell business is bullish about ongoing opportunities for suppliers in the emerging hydrogen-power space, as GM and partner Honda Motor Co. began...
Technical Innovation Energy
Daimler and Linde Announce Liquid-Hydrogen Refueling Technology
Daimler Truck and Linde Engineering recently announced sLH2, a jointly developed refueling technology for subcooled liquid hydrogen. The companies claim that subcooled...
News Energy
EFuels: An Alternative to the Alternative
Even as electric vehicles dominate today’s alternative powertrain market for passenger cars, the future of how we will all someday drive without burning petroleum is cloudier than ever. To...
News Energy
GM, Autocar to Build Fuel-Cell Commercial Vehicles
General Motors announced this week that it entered a joint development agreement with Alabama-based Autocar Industries to build a range of all-electric commercial trucks powered by...
Technical Innovation Power
Fuel-Cell Power for Monster Mining Trucks in GM, Komatsu Deal
In the latest announcement from GM regarding commercialization of its longstanding hydrogen fuel-cell research and development, it and commercial-vehicle specialist Komatsu...
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...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
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...
News Green Design & Manufacturing
Hydrogen ICE Is Heating Up
In the past three months, at least four major announcements have detailed the kickstart of development programs or real-world demonstrations of hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engines (ICE). As OEMs and...
News Energy
The Future of Carbon-Neutral Fuels for Heavy-Duty Machines
Decarbonization of commercial vehicles and off-highway machines is rapidly becoming a hot-button topic among regulators in the EU, Asia and North America. In addition to...
News Power
GM Hydrotec Boss Readies Fuel Cells for Commercial Deployment
Call it a “technology-meets-the-moment” place in the transportation sector’s innovation timeline. After decades of concentrated development work, GM’s fuel-cell...
Technical Innovation Manned Systems
Yanmar Announces Marine Hydrogen Fuel-Cell System
Yanmar announced that its marine subsidiary, Yanmar Holdings, is now offering a marine-grade hydrogen fuel-cell (HFC) propulsion system. According to the company’s announcement of the...
News Energy
Smart Engineering for Sustainability
Sustainability extends beyond just decarbonization. A term popping up more and more in executive and engineering-focused presentations is “circular economy,” referring to a closed-loop production...
News 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...
Articles Aerospace
GM Readies Fuel Cells for Commercial Deployment
After decades of concentrated development work, GM’s fuel-cell R&D unit Hydrotec is poised to deploy “the first applications that will be going commercial” of its hydrogen fuel-cell technology.
Articles Energy
Sensing to Solve EV Thermal Challenges
A common criticism of electric vehicles (EVs) is that extremes of heat and cold adversely affect their performance, particularly range. OEMs have been aware of the issue and have innovated and...
News Power
Toyota to Add Battery Lab at Michigan R&D Campus
Toyota will invest nearly $50 million for a new automotive battery lab at its R&D headquarters in York Township, Michigan. The lab is expected to be operational in 2025, the same year...
News Manned Systems
Bosch Begins Production of Fuel-Cell Power Modules for Nikola
At its oldest and largest location – a site long accustomed to manufacturing parts for combustion engines – Bosch is now producing what it calls the most complex system...
Articles Manned Systems
Reducing the Battery Materials Supply Risk
Battery electric vehicle (BEV) adoption is taking off for a variety of reasons. Battery cost per kWh of energy stored has dropped 10-fold since 2010. Driving range has increased, making range...
Original Equipment Energy
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...
Original Equipment Energy
Daimler Launches New EV Truck Brand for U.S. Market
Daimler Truck has launched a new brand, Rizon, dedicated to Class 4 and 5 medium-duty battery-electric vehicles for the U.S. market. Making its public debut at the Advanced Clean...
Editorial Manned Systems
A Diversified Path for Sustainable Fleets
More than 12,000 people attended the 2023 Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo in Anaheim, Calif., in May. Attendees heard a multitude of viewpoints offered by experts from...
Articles Energy
Hydrogen Storage in a Box!
Until recently, there was only one practical solution for storing gaseous hydrogen for onboard vehicle use: the cylindrical storage tank. Spiral-wound, carbon fiber cylinders are the proven form factor for...
News Energy
Hyundai’s Fuel-Cell Dreams Remain Xcient
Hyundai’s fuel-cell truck fleet is growing. The company is about to bring a fleet of hydrogen-powered 6x4 Xcient Fuel Cell Class 8 tractors to the U.S. It displayed one of the large cabs at...
News Regulations/Standards
Fuels to Transition the Global Legacy Fleet
Put the promise of mass vehicle electrification and its myriad challenges aside for a moment, and consider: What if most IC-engine vehicle owners don’t switch to EVs as the industry and...
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INSIDERRF & Microwave Electronics
Starliner to Perform Uncrewed Return Flight From International Space Station...
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EA-37B Compass Call: The US Air Force's New Electronic Attack Aircraft
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Archer Delivers First Midnight eVTOL to US Air Force
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Is the Department of Defense Stockpiling Enough Critical Materials?
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Modern Commercial Jets Create Longer Living Contrails Than Older Aircraft,...
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