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ZF Premieres AxTrax 2 Electric Axle Platform at ACT Expo
ZF unveiled its all-new AxTrax 2 electric axle platform at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo in Anaheim, California. The fully integrated and modular e-powertrain...
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Defrosting Tech Saves EV Battery Energy
Turning on the heater in most EVs can be a range-killing decision due to the power draw of the vehicle’s HVAC. But while cold feet reluctantly is a better option than not arriving at your...
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Powertrain, Electronics Lead Tech-Paper Topics at SAE’s WCX 2023
With engineers converging in mid-April for the 2023 WCX conference in Detroit, technical-paper presentations continue as the backbone of SAE’s annual congress.
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Snapdragon Ride Flex Puts Safety, Infotainment onto Single Chip
One chip, multiple benefits. That’s the claim made by Qualcomm Technologies about its new, scalable system-on-a-chip product family.
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Balancing the ‘Dominos’ in EV Thermal Management
Electric vehicle thermal management requires OEMs and suppliers to control many variables that potentially create excessive heat. Designing thermal-management systems (TMS) to...
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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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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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Keeping Your Silicon Cool
Onboard electronics continue to evolve rapidly. Components are smaller. Systems are more complex. The sophisticated electronics components that make up modern vehicles require precision heat dissipation for...
Briefs Aerospace
On the Pulsed Laser Ablation of Metals and Semiconductors
The fundamental goal of this research is to build from a broad set of experimental and theoretical data to a narrower set of scaling relations, heuristics, and trends that provide a roadmap for understanding laser ablation across relevant regimes.
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SAE International Extends Call for Abstracts, Seeks Submissions for AeroTech Conference
Engineering Events staff at SAE International in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, have extended the call for abstracts through September 21 for the...
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Cryogenic Thermal Subsystem
The Cryogenic Thermal Subsystem’s most critical function is to provide cooling to maintain the detectors in two of the Roman Coronagraph Instrument’s cameras at sufficiently low temperatures of approximately minus 161o F, which will allow them to function with the required sensitivity.
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Bosch Tunes Its Business to Face Mobility’s Challenges
Components and systems that make up the heart of combustion-engine powertrains have long reigned as a major profit center for Bosch, and the company’s commitment to sustaining...
News Energy
Webasto Delivers Battery System for Zeus EV Chassis
Electric work trucks are beginning to roll off the line at Zeus Electric Chassis’ production facility in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Zeus is providing the Sacramento Municipal...
News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Electric Radiant Heat for EV Cabin Comfort
Vehicle OEMs have been steadily increasing the range of their electric vehicles (EV) and plug-in hybrids (PHEV), but the ranges they claim publicly are in ideal thermal conditions. Now comes...
News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
GM: Ultium Heat-Pump System Boosts EV Range, Reduces Charge Times
On the same day that General Motors president Mark Reuss confirmed there will be a fully electric version of the company’s Corvette along with a hybrid model, the...
Articles Tubing & Extrusion
Microtube Technology: A Catalyst for Next-Gen Aerospace Thermal Control
Intergalactic, an aerospace thermal management company, has an inventive approach to heat exchangers.
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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...
Articles Software
An Immersive Solution for Thermally Safer EV Batteries
An R&D project indirectly leads to potentially greater power density, EV range, and battery life.
Articles Data Acquisition
Migrating Advanced Signal Processing Technology to Rugged SFF Platforms
By enabling distributed system architectures, SFF systems and subsystems solve many of the toughest problems facing embedded system designers.
Articles Aerospace
Thermal Management Techniques in Avionics Cooling
Innovation is carrying airborne technologies farther and higher than ever before, and avionic cooling practices have had to evolve to keep up.
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Mahle Advances 3D Printing Capabilities
Slashing the time to produce prototypes for complex components, from several months to a few days, explains in part why Mahle’s technology group decided to build a new facility for additive...
Articles Aerospace
Engineering an Aircraft Hydrogen Powertrain
The commercial aviation industry is taking critical steps towards zero-carbon aviation.
Technology Report Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Toward an Electric Two-Wheeled Triumph
There is something of a TV series about Triumph Motorcycles’ radical TE-1 electric project. It’s an intriguing story unfolding through four episodes, or phases, following its conception. Phase...
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Mercedes Kicks off Dedicated EV Lineup with Flagship EQS
Mercedes-Benz has revealed the all-new 2022 EQS EV sedan. The EQS is the first all-electric luxury 4-door model from Mercedes built upon a dedicated (and modular) EV platform. The...
Technology Report Manufacturing & Prototyping
How 3D Printing Could Add Efficiency to EV Power Electronics
“Think production!” Perhaps that advice should be posted on the wall of every design office, R&D lab and advanced technology center in the auto industry. Although...
News Electronics & Computers
Propulsion Tech Tops SAE WCX 2021 Papers and Presentations
The technologies that literally make the world’s wheels go round – the latest combustion systems and battery chemistries, electric machines, drivelines, fuels and more –...
News Power
Charting the ICE Future with Mahle’s Martin Berger
Electrification nets the current headlines and Wall Street fervor, but the internal combustion engine (ICE) will easily soldier on for several decades, serving as the core of many...
News Materials
German OEMs Flex 3D Manufacturing Muscle
A chief impediment for wider adoption of additive manufacturing long has been its potential for application in high-volume and high-throughput production. But continuing process and technique...
Articles Nanotechnology
NAWA Aims for 5-Minute EV Charge
A French nanomaterials company has developed a technology that it claims can significantly increase the storage efficiency of electric vehicle batteries. NAWA Technologies’ Ultra-Fast Carbon Electrode...
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