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The Push for E-Powertrain Progress
Electric powertrain development continues at a fervent pace as OEMs, suppliers and startups try to optimize current technology while forging ahead into new areas. Although battery engineering and...
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Toyota Stretches SUV Line-Up with World Debut of Grand Highlander
The new Grand Highlander is a three-row midsize SUV, just like Highlander. So it’s not surprising that the Toyota siblings share two powertrains.
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Blue Arc Amps up for EV Production
In June of 2020, while the world was still coming to grips with the COVID-19 pandemic, Spartan Motors announced that it was rebranding as The Shyft Group. Following this reorganization, Shyft announced...
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Making the Case for MEMS Timing
Today's high-performance automotive electronic systems rely on precision timing technology for accurate, stable frequency control of digital components, from applications processors to microcontrollers to...
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Williams Debuts New Flexible Platform for BEVs and FCVs
Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) has unveiled its latest product, the EVR electric vehicle platform. It has been designed to provide an accelerated start to a high-performance...
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Gearing Dana for the EV Future
As Dana Inc. transitions further into electrified systems, it pays to have a Mechatronics engineer leading the company’s technology charge. Giulio Ornella, Dana’s VP of Global Engineering, has been...
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Freightliner’s Medium-Duty Makeover
Circling the highway loop at the American Center for Mobility in Ypsilanti, Michigan, the enhancements Freightliner engineers made to the new Plus series medium-duty and vocational trucks are...
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Unzipping the Future of Sustainable Electronics
Electronic-systems designers are facing a serious reckoning: How to significantly reduce the environmental impact of more and more electronic content in new vehicles?
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New 300-Mm Wafer Fab Is Key to Bosch’s Chip Future
A new semiconductor plant is the single largest investment made by Robert Bosch AG in the 122-year-old company’s history. The facility, in Dresden, Germany, is welcome news to...
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NAIAS 2022: Seventh-Generation of Ford Mustang Is Highest Performer Yet
The exterior visuals still emphasize a long hood and a short deck, but the V8-powered 2024 Mustang GT’s mammoth air intakes are a telltale that things have...
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Underwater Security System
KnightShield covers medium ranges in ports and detects hostile divers – whether using closed or open breathing apparatus – as well as AUVs, SDVs, DPVs, and UUVs.
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From Emissions Tech to EV Electronics
A recent visit to Eberspaecher’s North American engineering and manufacturing complex reveals how a global Tier-1 rooted in combustion-engine technology is profitably navigating the transition to...
Road Ready Propulsion
First Electrified Dodge Arrives for 2023 MY
The industry’s red-hot and crowded compact-utility vehicle market gets a newcomer for the 2023 model year with an electrified, top-of-the-line version of the Dodge Hornet. “It’s...
Editorial Manned Systems
Platooning Still Promising for Trucking
There is “no business case” for platooning, or the electronic coupling of two or more trucks in close formation. That was the assessment of Daimler Trucks in 2019 when it decided to pause its...
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Rexroth Takes Aim at Electrification for Off-Highway Vehicles
Bosch Rexroth recently invited SAE Media to attend EMPAC, their Electrified Mobile Product & Application Conference in Schaumburg, Illinois. The show featured many of...
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Single-Step 3D-Printing Process to Build Robots
The piezoelectric “meta-bot” is capable of propulsion, movement, sensing, and decision-making.
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Ultrasound Tech Offers Sophisticated Battery-Testing Intelligence
The production and supply of lithium-ion batteries for the global EV and stationary energy storage systems (ESS) markets is growing at an exponential rate. At the same...
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Navigating the Language of Vehicle Autonomy
Call them what you may – autonomous vehicles, automated vehicles, self-driving vehicles – they are coming. But you can’t buy one yet, and like many technological revolutions,...
Executive Viewpoints Energy
Solving the Challenges of Megawatt Chargers
The most significant barrier to the growth of electric vehicles (EVs) is the battery charging infrastructure. The availability of charging stations and the time required to recharge vehicles...
Briefs Medical
Electronic Skin Anticipates and Perceives Touch from Different Directions for the First Time
Scientists develop a new approach for miniaturization of soft ultra-compact and highly integrated sensor units for directional tactile sensitivity in e-skin systems.
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Inside Story May 2022: Small Connectors for Electronic Systems in Aerospace and Defense Equipment
Thanos Yiagopoulos, Chief Technology Officer of Momentive Performance Materials, discusses how engineers can determine the best product for their application.
Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Hardening Unmanned Aerial Systems Against High-Power Microwave Threats in Support of Forward Operations
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) continue to play an increasing role across the spectrum of military operations. Advances in human-machine...
Articles Motion Control
Discrete Proportional Valve Technology
The DPV concept matches the unique needs of electric vehicle cooling and energy management systems.
Briefs Unmanned Systems
Giving Bug-Like Bots a Boost
A new fabrication technique helps improve the performance of flying micro-robots.
Briefs Semiconductors & ICs
Electronic Prognostics – A Case Study Using Global Positioning System (GPS)
An electronic system containing high frequency RF components reduces failure rates.
Briefs Aerospace
The Effect of Failing to Recapitalize the B-52H Defensive Avionics System on Future Operations
The Air Force upgraded the B-52 aircraft with an Avionics Midlife Improvement program.
News Test & Measurement
Addressing Electromagnetic Compatibility in the Context of Aircraft Electrification
In the current context of aircraft electrification, the aerospace industry needs to address increased design complexity and higher levels of integration,...
Technology Leaders Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The TWIICE Exoskeleton: Connector Trends in Medical Device Design
A modular exoskeleton relies on robust connectors.
Articles Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Keeping Pace with In-Vehicle Data Speed
Next-generation advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) require camera and radar systems with increasingly high resolution. That means more speed and higher bandwidth for networks, switches and...
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