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Battery Safety for a Zero-Incident Future
A fire on January 17 gutted what was reportedly the world’s largest battery storage plant in Moss Landing near Monterey, California. The blaze and concerns over air quality damaged by the toxic...
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New Fluids Coming for EV Thermal Management
Managing the heating and cooling of electric vehicle propulsion systems may seem to be an easy task compared with combustion engines. After all, ICEs run much hotter — the thermal optimum for a...
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Bemis, BASF Develop Lightweight Hydraulic Tank for Compact Excavators
Bemis Manufacturing and BASF collaborated to develop a lighter-weight and lower-cost hydraulic tank for compact excavators that was recognized with a lightweighting...
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Data Analysis Companies Collaborate to Slash EV Battery Production Time
A battery intelligence pioneer will work with a venerable semiconductor yield-improvement firm in a partnership that promises to drastically accelerate the production...
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Deep Breathing for EV Batteries
As batteries become more sophisticated, the need to protect them from the elements has never been greater. Battery pack engineers understand vehicle applications and by marrying them with proper venting...
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Advances in Virtual Powertrain Development
Powertrain engineers have various tools at their disposal to develop new technologies — empirical modeling, component simulation, multi-system environments and physical testing chief among them....
Articles Aerospace
Electrified Propulsion for Aerospace: Where to Start?
In the eVTOL marketplace there is no common ground yet regarding the number of propulsion modules.
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Electronic Prognostics – A Case Study Using Global Positioning System (GPS)
An electronic system containing high frequency RF components reduces failure rates.
News Energy
Is GaN the Future for EV Chips?
Technology advances in electric vehicles (EV) are steadily shrinking the vehicle bill-of-materials cost while creating power efficiencies and new design solutions. The combination of more power-dense...
Articles Connectivity
Autonomy Is Coming to Commercial Vehicles
Despite a pandemic that continues to punish global economic markets, not to mention vehicle manufacturers’ and suppliers’ product plans, many heavy-duty truck makers are not relaxing on efforts...
Articles Test & Measurement
Designing Battery Packs for Harsh Environment Mission-Critical Devices
Learn about design considerations for manufacturing a battery pack that operates in extreme temperatures, absorbs shock and vibration, and maintains a watertight seal.
Articles Aerospace
Ruggedizing Coaxial and Fiber Optic Cable Assemblies from Mechanical Strain
Learn how to protect critical conductors, dielectric, and optical fibers from deforming, cracking, or unraveling
Articles Manned Systems
Narrower Focus, Bigger Payoff for Commercial EVs
Government regulations are prompting a changeover to electric powertrains, with early growth coming in commercial vehicle applications where range and recharging are more easily managed....
News Connectivity
Leading Vehicle Prognostics Toward the AV Future
Predicting a likely future failure in vehicle components and systems in advance of the occurrence is important today, and will be even more critical for autonomous vehicles, perhaps far from...
News Test & Measurement
'Road Race' for AV Testing May Be Slowing
Chris Hoyle, Technical Director of software specialist rFpro, believes the race by auto and technology companies to be ahead of competitor programs involving autonomous vehicle (AV) testing on...
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Nvidia Partners with AdaCore to Secure Self-Driving Firmware
As mobility software becomes increasingly complex and connected, so does the risk of human error and system safety. To combat this, New York-based software company AdaCore will...
News Test & Measurement
Tekscan Goes Fast-Track with Its High-Speed Tire Scanning
A new electronic testing method lets engineers analyze the impact of speed, motion, and inertial forces that high-speed tires experience, a vast departure from what was previously...
News Transportation
Advanced Simulation Techniques Drive Powertrain Design
Commercial vehicle designers are using a variety of simulation and validation tools as they attempt to find new ways to improve many aspects of vehicle design. Engineers are working...
News Test & Measurement
Soyuz MS-10 Launch Abort Prompts Investigation into Booster Anomaly
NASA officials in Washington are pledging to conduct a thorough investigation into the cause of an anomaly with a rocket booster on the Soyuz MS-10 manned spacecraft,...
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Simulation 'Libraries' Will Support Testing of High-Level Vehicle Autonomy
The challenges of validating autonomous vehicles designed to operate at SAE Level 4 and 5 are a major focus of driving-simulation specialist rFpro. The advent of...
Articles Semiconductors & ICs
Fast-Tracking Autonomous Vehicles with Simulation
Artificial intelligence developments are set to fundamentally transform mobility, whether it is mobility of weapon payloads, supply deliveries, urban commuters, warehouse goods, delivery...
Articles Aerospace
Certifying Composite Designs for Aerospace and Defense
Wherever you find newer and particularly larger aircraft these days, you're seeing the use of composite materials. The latest commercial planes, as well as innovative defense prototypes,...
Articles Aerospace
Advances in Lightweight Electronics Protection
Lightweighting continues to be a key topic for the aerospace, avionics and defense industries as new metals and composites are being integrated into end products and assemblies with the goal of...
Articles Aerospace
Curled RF MEMS Switches For On-Chip Design
Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) switches are active components in most electronic equipment. Radio frequency (RF) MEMS are used in wireless personal communication devices, satellite communication,...
Technology Update Defense
Lifting 3D Printing to New Heights
Whether it’s through 3D printing jet engine fuel nozzles by the thousands or validating metal rocket injectors for space flight, aerospace has consistently proven itself to be on the cutting edge of the...
News Propulsion
Lifting 3D Printing to New Heights
Whether it’s through 3D printing jet engine fuel nozzles by the thousands or validating metal rocket injectors for space flight, aerospace has consistently proven itself to be on the cutting edge of the...
Articles Aerospace
Hybrid-electric distributed propulsion explored
A turboelectric distributed propulsion (TeDP) system is a powertrain consisting of a turboshaft engine used solely to provide electrical power through a generator to electric motors driving...
Technology Update Defense
Redesign of composite parts for structural integrity
In the case of composite materials, material properties are vastly dependent on the manufacturing process. While shifting the manufacturing process of a composite part from preimpregnated to...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Modeling and Simulation Techniques for Unmanned Vehicle Systems
Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle (UAV) systems have become possible in recent history thanks primarily to the effects of Moore’s Law — the doubling of processing power every 18...
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