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Machines Working Remotely
Remotely operated machines have been researched and developed in various industry sectors including military, automotive, agriculture, aerospace, and construction, to name a few. Remote operation is desired where...
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Racecar with Composite-Intensive Suspension Gets Track Tested in 2015
The tangy yellow-colored 1986 Honda CRX emblazoned with SANLUIS Rassini on its hood uses a patents-pending rear suspension as a replacement to its most recent setup of...
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Seeking Validation at Navistar
As Chief Engineer, Vehicle Engineering at Navistar Inc., Craig Birkett (SAE member, 1983) oversees the entire validation process for Navistar vehicles, including testing and simulation. Having spent many years...
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Fiat-Chrysler to Spin off Ferrari
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. (FCA) on Oct. 29 announced its intention to sell its Ferrari S.p.A unit. The separation will be effected through a public offering of FCA's interest in Ferrari equal to 10% of...
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Intuitive Machines Developing Sample Return Vehicle for ISS National Lab
Houston, TX-based Intuitive Machines LLC in cooperation with NASA has been selected by the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) to develop a...
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Volvo’s Rapid Strategy Aims at 20-Month Vehicle Development
Volvo Car may be a model for automotive manufacturing in the near future. Faced with unique circumstances since the sale of the company by Ford in 2010 to Zhejiang Geely Holding...
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Flex4 System Leads Magna's Wave of New Fuel-Saving Technologies
A new drivetrain technology that's soon to enter production will provide truck- and car-based platform vehicles a fuel efficiency boost.
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Caterpillar's Wheeled Excavator Design Based on Customer Input
Caterpillar says it solicited customer input for characteristics considered important when it was designing its new M318F and M320F wheeled excavators. Heading the not-so-short...
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New WABCO India Plant Supplies Advanced Braking for Heavy Trucks
WABCO Holdings Inc. recently opened its fifth manufacturing facility in India, located in Lucknow. The new plant will supply advanced braking technologies, including antilock...
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SAE Scholarship Season Opens
As someone who benefited greatly from college scholarships, the Chair of SAE International’s Scholarship Committee, Ken Wolfgram, doesn’t want anyone to miss an application deadline.
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Perkins Tames Complexity
The good news is that heavy-duty diesel engine providers like Perkins have met the challenge of meeting Tier 4 Final and Stage IV regulations. But there was a price in engine complexity.
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New XC90 Burnishes Volvo's Safety Credentials
Volvo's new XC90 seven-seat SUV model, which got its first public showing at the 2014 Paris Motor Show, will replace the current model launched in 2002. The vehicle will initially be offered...
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New Ford S-Max to Get Class-Leading Driver Assistance Features
Ford launched revised and new products at the 2014 Paris Motor Show highlighted by the new S-Max. The model will replace the original launched in 2007, when Ford introduced the...
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Renault Reboots Espace with Crossover Leanings
It is 30 years since Renault invented the large European MPV with the original five or seven-seat Espace. The latest Espace, launched at the 2014 Paris Motor Show, revealed a departure from...
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Alfa Romeo Finally Returns to U.S. with 4C
After twenty years of absence and many delays, Alfa Romeo is finally coming back to the U.S., and the company is packing for the long haul. After the very-low-volume and very-high-end 8C, the...
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Optimizing Commercial Vehicle Muffler Size, Volume Via CFD
Vehicle lightweighting can be achieved by either using lightweight materials or by reducing the size of the existing components. Researchers at VE Commercial Vehicles Ltd. in India...
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Discovery Sport Introduces Evoque-Based Land Rover
Weight reduction has been an ongoing theme for Land Rover in recent years, with significant reductions for both the Land Rover Discovery and Range Rover. With the launch of the Discovery...
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Mazda Trickles out More New MX-5 Details
The new Mazda MX-5 made its first public European appearance at the 2014 Paris Motor Show, bringing a lighter car than the outgoing model, powered by a new 1.5-L gasoline engine (the U.S. and...
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Mercedes-Benz Applies Full Sport to GLA
After the sales success of the compact, front-drive-based CLA-Class sedan, Mercedes-Benz has migrated that car's platform into the hotter-selling compact crossover market with the GLA-Class, the...
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Renault Applies Model-Based Systems Engineering to Dual-Clutch Transmission
Car manufacturers are facing various and sometimes contradicting constraints such as energy efficiency, high performance, driving comfort, reliability, and safety....
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WABCO Introduces New Compressors
Among the new products WABCO displayed at the recent IAA Hanover CV Show was an electrically driven compressor for heavy-duty air-braking systems.
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VW’s Carbon-Fiber XL Sport Concept Sports Ducati V2 Motorcycle Engine
Volkswagen refers to the XL Sport concept vehicle that it revealed at the 2014 Paris Motor Show as a “sister model” of the XL1. As with most siblings, some...
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Graphene Composites for Cars
Soon after University of Manchester physicists Kostya Novoselov and Andre Geim discovered the "wonder material" graphene—one-atom-thick sheets of carbon that are a 100 times stronger and much lighter than...
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Sikorsky’s All-New Raider Helicopter Prototype Is Ready to Fly
Sikorsky Aircraft unveiled in early October the first of two S-97 Raider lightweight tactical helicopter prototypes. The Raider is targeted to fly by the end of 2014. In 2015...
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Komatsu America Puts the HM300-5 Articulated Dump Truck out There
Komatsu America Corp. first showed off its HM300-5 articulated dump truck ConEXPO earlier this year.
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Flying on Vegetation
Fuel is expensive for airlines. According to sources interviewed for this article, fuel accounts for 30 to 50% of operating costs, depending on the size of the aircraft. And fuel prices remain volatile.
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Climate Control Engineers Face New CAFE Test
Automotive climate control engineers are working to wring increased efficiency not only from the refrigeration system, but from every peripheral too. Yes, there are CAFE (corporate average fuel...
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Automotive Technology Handbook
Published by SAE International, The Evolution of Automotive Technology: A Handbook covers 125 years of the automobile—conceived as a cultural history of its technology. The book is aimed at engineering...
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The Next Wave of Crash Simulation
Although most vehicle crash tests are typically done at 35-40 mph (56-64 km/h), the speed at which crash simulations are run continues to accelerate. As computing speed continually improves, engineers are...
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