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Scaling the Solid-State Battery FEST
Start-up battery developer Factorial Energy’s workforce of engineers, chemists and other technology specialists has topped 100 with recent hirings in the Asia-Pacific region. A pilot manufacturing...
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New Defense Department Contract to Expand Domestic Rocket Motor Manufacturing
The Department of Defense's (DoD) Office of Manufacturing Capability Expansion and Investment Prioritization (MCEIP) has entered into a $215.6 million...
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Designing for 200 BMEP and 22,000 Rpm
Fire-bombing destroyed Japan’s 66 largest cities and their industry during World War II. After the war, over 200 makers of light motorbikes sprang into being because such transportation could be...
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Caterpillar Unveils New C13D Off-Highway Engine Platform
Caterpillar has launched its new off-highway 13-liter diesel engine platform, the C13D, at CONEXPO 2023 in Las Vegas. Cat states that the C13D was “purpose-built for rugged,...
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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 Ford We Didn’t Know
Ford CEO Jim Farley exposed significant product-development lapses during his company’s fourth-quarter-2022 earnings call on February 2. Ford’s 4Q profit performance was no-excuses dismal. Its causes, he...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
BMW Takes Multi-Modal Route to Manufacturing
BMW’s Munich factory remains the fertile root of a century of manufacturing, including its first R32 motorcycle in 1923. But the Bavarian automaker’s oldest assembly site is transforming...
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Air Force to Inspect KC-135 Fleet for Non-Conforming Tail Pins
The Air Force is directing inspections of KC-135 tanker aircraft for a non-conforming part in the vertical tail assembly. The Time Compliance Technical Order (TCTO) restricts...
Technology Report Manufacturing & Prototyping
A Divergent Approach to Vehicle Development and Production
Among the most intriguing vehicles on display at the 2022 Pebble Beach Concours D’ Elegance was a pair developed by an obscure brand, Czinger Vehicles, and its parent company,...
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BMW Previews an HMI Future Without Dashboard Screens
The BMW i Vision Dee is an electric tease, dialed up to Las Vegas wattage for a provocative unveiling at CES 2023: A novel digital grille, wrapped with Kindle-style “E-ink”...
News Propulsion
A Darker Side of the Chip-Shortage Story
The effects of the global semiconductor shortage on new-vehicle availability, and industry profits, are well known. But an even more significant effect of the “chip” shortage has been going...
News Energy
The Haters Go After Toyota
Want your company to be the target of haters? Here’s a sure way to do it, as proven in 2022.
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Cadillac's Future-Tech Flagship
Restoring the Cadillac brand to its golden-age pinnacle, when it stood equal among Europe’s ultra-luxury greats, has long been an intermittent dream within GM. The grandiose ‘Sixteen’ concept in...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
FPT’s New EPowertrain Plant Commences EAxle Production for Nikola Tre BEV
Sustainability is an increasingly significant target for many commercial-vehicle manufacturers’ industrial activities and new products, and FPT Industrial is...
News Electronics & Computers
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...
News Materials
2022 Honda Civic Hatchback Enjoys Premium Assembly, Weight-Cutting Measures
As a veteran manufacturing engineer, Jill Fuel was an ideal choice for the project leader for the production launch of Honda’s 2022 Civic Hatchback at Honda's...
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2023 Cadillac Lyriq Executive Chief Engineer: New EV Her ‘North Star’
At the Cadillac Lyriq’s media drive program in Utah, SAE Media spoke one-on-one with Jamie Brewer, Lyriq executive chief engineer, about developing the...
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Faurecia Puts the ‘Wow Factor’ in Its Process Technologies
Faurecia is on a roll. The France-based Tier 1 has been expanding into clean mobility (including hydrogen storage systems) and recently acquired lighting systems giant...
News Materials
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...
News Software
BMW 7-Series Drives Itself Through Own Assembly
The 1997 James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies” obliquely presaged current-day automated-driving technology when the hero remotely piloted his modified BMW 7-Series sedan through a...
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Rivian R1T Analyzed by Teardown Expert
Rivian’s R1T is in big demand by both the public and the industry. OEMs are still scrambling to acquire their own examples of the pioneering, innovative electric pickup for competitive analysis...
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Positioning to Centimeter Level Improves Ag Productivity
Precision navigation, which is essential to autonomous machines, is knowing a moving vehicle’s absolute and relative position in 3D space accurately, reliably and repeatably....
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Lightning EMotors Adapts to Changing Electrification Market
A growing number of commercial truck fleets are moving to electric vehicles, driven partially by government mandates and support funding. For suppliers like Lightning eMotors,...
Original Equipment Mechanical & Fluid Systems
HEVI Launches Lineup of Electric Off-Highway Equipment
Greenland Technologies Holding Corporation has announced the launch of HEVI Equipment, a new brand of industrial machinery. The HEVI Equipment moniker is a rebranding of...
Original Equipment Transportation
ACT Expo 2022 Roundup: Bollinger, Hyundai and Volvo Clean-Vehicle Updates
If there was any doubt that zero-emission work trucks are coming – and, really, there isn’t – the 2022 ACT Expo made it abundantly clear they’re on their...
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Spawning an All-New Gasoline Engine, Stellantis’ Hurricane Is Coming
Although Stellantis has announced its intent to have EVs account for at least 50% of its sales mix by 2030, this week the company’s Head of Propulsion Systems...
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NASA Builds Welding Test Article for SLS Exploration Upper Stage
NASA completed manufacturing of a hydrogen tank barrel that will be tested as a weld confidence article for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s Exploration Upper Stage...
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GM details Corvette’s new and mighty LT6 V8
If the end of the internal-combustion epoch truly is within sight, General Motors intends to see it out with a bang. It’s latest — who’s to say whether it’s the “last?” —...
News Energy
Purdue Prototypes New EV Fast-charge Cable
A new charging station cable designed by a Purdue University research team could enable an electric vehicle (EV) battery to be recharged in under five minutes, comparable to filling an average...
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University of Rochester Lab Creates New 'Reddmatter' Superconductivity Material...
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MIT Report Finds US Lead in Advanced Computing is Almost Gone - Mobility...
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Air Force Performs First Test of Microwave Counter Drone Weapon THOR - Mobility...
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Navy Selects Lockheed Martin and Raytheon to Develop Hypersonic Missile -...
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Boeing to Develop Two New E-7 Variants for US Air Force - Mobility Engineering...
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