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Hydrogen Is Hitting Some Headwinds
Nikola announced on February 19 that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and had begun pursuing “value-maximizing sale transactions” for its operations. Also a maker of battery-electric heavy...
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Honda Unveils Solid-State Battery Demonstration Production Line
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. is taking the next step in bringing its proprietary solid-state batteries to production. The automaker unveiled its demonstration production line for...
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Brownout for Commercial-Vehicle Electrification?
The high cost of batteries to electrify on-road commercial vehicles is one thing. But some connected with or studying electrification for the CV sector now are concerned that the cost of...
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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 the...
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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...
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Change? Sure, Sometimes.
SAE’s Automotive Engineering magazine is not immune to the constant beat of changes happening across the automotive industry. In case you’re curious what that means, the byline and picture accompanying this...
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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 R&D...
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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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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 commercial-vehicle...
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Hydrogen Lightens the Load for Heavy Trucks
Hydrogen propulsion continues to gain traction as a solution for the decarbonization of medium- and heavy-duty trucks. Numerous OEMs are currently testing and demonstrating H2 trucks on public...
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Hydrogen Shows Increased Commercial Interest
While several commercial vehicle OEMs, including Tesla and Nikola, are in the latter phase of testing battery-electric semi-tractors on the road, action in the hydrogen space continues to grow...
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Time for Hydrogen
After decades of R&D, some false starts, and a smattering of low-volume production vehicles, hydrogen has emerged as a vital enabler for carbon reduction across the transportation sector. In gaseous form, our lightest...
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Allison’s Now Open for Hydrogen Testing
With the atomic number 1, hydrogen is the lightest element in the Periodic Table. However, its rapidly becoming a heavyweight for the future of mobility. Development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicle...
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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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Allison Advances Commercial-Vehicle Electronic Controls
Allison Transmission continues to invest in and accelerate its electric-vehicle propulsion solutions, but it also remains committed to its conventional product portfolio, which the...
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Hyundai Engineers a Multi-Modal Electrified Mobility Future
Here’s a Hyundai vehicle that you’re likely not familiar with: It has LED headlamps at the front, a lithium-ion battery to drive its motor, a digital interface and is designed...
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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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Alternative Fuels, Propulsion Poised for Growth in U.S. Fleets
Fuel prices are soaring. Not breaking news, I know, yet the almost-daily alerts citing new record highs for gasoline and diesel prices are still unsettling. Consumers and...
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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 a...
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‘Mixed’ Approach to E-truck Manufacturing
Electrification for truck, bus and off-highway equipment manufacturers brings more technology hurdles than for carmakers. Some of them are attributable to the issues involved with larger...
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Thermal Challenges of Electric Commercial Vehicles
Vehicle electrification poses new challenges for thermal management, driving development of new systems and components specific to battery and fuel-cell electric vehicles (EVs). Key...
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Faurecia Expanding into Hydrogen
Through its Symbio joint venture with Michelin, Faurecia is investing beyond its interior-systems base into the fuel-cell future.
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Innovating the Methanol Fuel Cell
Using methanol as the source fuel provides an alternative to a gaseous-hydrogen distribution and storage infrastructure, among other potential benefits.
Original Equipment Transportation
A Bevy of Battery and Fuel-Cell Electric Truck Reveals
As one should expect from an industry event called Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo, several truck OEMs revealed their latest battery-electric and fuel-cell-electric offerings...
Articles Energy
Pumping EV Heat
The Automotive Career Development Center (ACDC) that I founded over 20 years ago provides training and tech support to the world’s independent electric-vehicle (EV and hybrid) technicians, who will be asked to fix and...
Technical Innovation Electronics & Computers
Partnering to Produce Fuel-Cell-Electric Trucks
A first-of-its-kind propulsion alternative for transporting products between ports, warehouses and distribution centers is on the horizon. “The Class 6 fuel-cell-electric vehicle (FCEV) is...
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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 Energy
Toyota Reveals RWD FCEV Mirai, Plug-In RAV4
As part of an electrified stable primed for the 2019 Tokyo and Los Angeles auto shows, Toyota has unveiled its all-new Mirai fuel-cell electric vehicle (FCEV) and the upcoming plug-in hybrid...
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Is Hydrogen the Future for Trucking?
Powertrain electrification is becoming the new standard for the automotive and commercial industries. The passenger car market is primarily meeting the demand for lower emissions through battery electric...
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