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New York Auto Show 2025: News from the Floor
The 2025 edition of the New York International Auto Show proved some automakers still value the attention that comes with debuting a vehicle on a flashy convention center stage. Hyundai, Kia and...
Original Equipment Green Design & Manufacturing
ACT Expo 2025: Heavy-Duty EVs, H2 Trucks and Tariff Talk Dominate Day One
Opening day of the ACT Expo 2025 in Anaheim, California, was a flood of product announcements and clean-fuel initiative updates. While the trucks and the technology...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
U.S. States Focus on Taiwan as Trade War Continues
Interest in Taiwan as a source of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the U.S. has been growing in recent years. At this year’s 360 Degree Mobility event in Taipei, held in late April, a...
Technology Report Manufacturing & Prototyping
The Transformative Power of Large-Format Additive Manufacturing for Automotive
In the dynamic landscape of automotive manufacturing, innovation has focused mostly on delivering greater efficiency, automation, sustainability and...
Technical Innovation Power
Artificial Intelligence Being Schooled for Mining Applications
A battery-electric Honda midsize SUV entering production in early 2026 will use Helm.ai’s artificial intelligence to facilitate conditional automated driving. The start-up...
Original Equipment Unmanned Systems
First Drive: REE’s Electrifying P7 Delivery Chassis
At NTEA’s 2024 Work Truck Week, REE Automotive showcased its P7 EV chassis and REEcorners modular suspension system. At the time, the P7 was being offered to North American fleets for...
Technology Report Sensors/Data Acquisition
Power over Coaxial in Automotive: A Simplified Path to Advanced Vehicle Systems
As automotive technology advances, modern vehicles increasingly rely on complex electronics such as cameras, sensors, radar, and lidar. These components are...
Articles Energy
A Week with the Hyundai Way
Hyundai’s recent Hyundai Way tech presentation week in Korea was, like the company’s future strategy, a cornucopia of technologies. The week included an EV-focused performance event co-sponsored with Toyota,...
Articles Data Acquisition
The Intersection of Autonomy and Cybersecurity
The race to greater autonomy is on in the industrial and commercial transportation industry and for good reason. Autonomous vehicles have the potential to transform commercial trucking,...
Technology Report Automotive
AVSC Develops Best Practices for Traceable AV Safety Inspection Protocols
The Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium announced its best practice document for the design, revision, documentation and lifecycle of a safety inspection protocol for Automated Driving System-Dedicated Vehicles. Read on to learn more.
News Electronics & Computers
Closing Gap to Leverage Enhanced Computational Power for SDV Advancement
Developing a standardized approach to harness the power of modern hardware accelerators in a safe and efficient way is essential in furthering the advancement of...
Editorial AR/AI
Recuperating from AI-Induced CES Fatigue
Listening to some end-of-the-year music shows recently, I was reminded of how natural it is to get jaded about things, even things we truly enjoy, as we get older. The critics I listened to didn’t...
News Communications
Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda on Mobility, Sustainable Cities, and Rockets
At CES in 2020, Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda announced that Toyota would build a city at the base of Mt Fuji. The giant laboratory would be where the automaker would...
Technical Innovation Software
CES 2025: Oshkosh Puts AI, Autonomy and Electrification to Work
A multi-brand global company that serves several different industries marked its debut at one of the world’s largest technology exhibitions by highlighting its...
Articles AR/AI
CES 2025: Deere Advances Off-Highway Autonomy
With the pungent smell of garlic in the air and the threat of tremors from three major fault lines, a select group of journalists invited to John Deere’s Gilroy, California, test center in...
Technical Innovation Unmanned Systems
Sensata’s Sensors Aid Blind Spot Monitoring for Tractor-Trailers
Sensata Technologies’ booth at this year’s IAA Transportation tradeshow included two of the company’s Precor radar sensors. The PreView STA79 is a heavy-duty vehicle...
Application Briefs Unmanned Systems
Autonomous Air Defense Production
Anduril Industries has been awarded a $249,978,466 contract to deliver advanced air defense capabilities across services for the Department of Defense (DoD). This contract will deliver more than 500 Roadrunner-Ms and additional Pulsar electronic warfare capabilities, addressing the growing threat of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) attacks against U.S. forces. Read on to learn more.
Application Briefs Defense
Enabling Off-the-Shelf Autonomous Naval Warfare
The Navy is actively exploring emerging technologies that enable uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) and uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) to extend the range of its communications and electronic warfare (EW) capabilities. Read on to learn more about it.
Editorial Unmanned Systems
Bauma the Big One in 2025
December is a good time to reflect on the past year – to celebrate successes and consider opportunities for improvement – but it is also an opportune time to look to the future. As I think about the year ahead...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Making Software-Defined Vehicles Cyber-Secure
There is one sure-fire way to secure commercial vehicles from cyber-attacks. “You just remove the connectivity,” quipped Brandon Barry, CEO of Block Harbor Cybersecurity and the moderator...
News Energy
Toyota Tacoma’s Resin Seat Named SPE’s 2024 Best Automotive Plastic Innovation
The Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) announced the winners of the 53rd annual Automotive Innovation Awards Gala (IAG) in mid-November, naming Toyota’s...
News Transportation
Inside Tesla's Cybercab Future
For over a decade, the autonomous vehicle problem has been far more difficult than originally expected for every company involved. The landscape is littered with abandoned attempts.
News Design
ZF CubiX Lays out One Future for Chassis Design
What can we expect from the chassis of the future? That was the question posed by ZF at a recent event staged at its UK Hub, a center for R&D into control, materials, mechatronics,...
Original Equipment Connectivity
Liebherr Reveals Towering Battery-Electric Haul Truck
Liebherr and Fortescue unveiled their first autonomous battery-electric T 264 haul truck at MINExpo 2024, garnering a steady stream of attendees eyeing and climbing on the giant...
Technology Report Software
Cybersecurity Expert Says Crowdstrike and CDK Global Incidents Serve as Wake-Up Calls
When cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike’s platform went down in July, it became the most significant outage in the history of information technology,...
Articles Regulations/Standards
Realizing Software-Defined Commercial Vehicles
Severe driver shortages, rising fuel and material costs, escalating demand for freight transport, higher sustainability requirements – there is no shortage of challenges facing the transport...
Original Equipment Connectivity
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 100%...
Technology Report Unmanned Systems
AutoSens: RFpro Reveals ‘Massive, Complicated’ LA Model
Simulation company rFpro has already mapped over 180 digital locations around the world, including public roads, proving grounds and race circuits. But the company’s latest is...
Q&A Transportation
Kodiak Adapts Autonomous Tech for Military Vehicles
Kodiak Robotics launched its first autonomous military prototype vehicle in December 2023 – a Ford F-150 upfitted with the Kodiak Driver autonomous system. Developed for the Department...
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