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Electronics & Computers

Hybrid Electric Drive

The development program is part of the Army’s effort to increase vehicle efficiency

Articles

Test & Measurement

Venting for EV Battery Packs

Cell chemistries, thermal dynamics, vehicle packaging, and even weather present challenges for optimizing electric vehicle battery functional safety.

Articles

Electronics & Computers

Using Multiphysics to Predict and Prevent EV Battery Fire

To achieve vehicle manufacturers’ ambitious goals for electric vehicles, Li-ion batteries need to be improved.

What We’re Driving

Manufacturing & Prototyping

2021 Toyota Supra 2.0

The Supra 2.0 is better for its simplicity: not having adaptive suspension and 14-way power adjustable seats make it more of a purist’s delight.

Articles

Energy

The Battery-Deal Beat Goes on

The dynamism and in some cases, unpredictability, of the EV battery market show no signs of settling down. And despite “the battery Big 3” collectively commanding nearly two-thirds of the market, OEMs remain committed to multi-source cell supply.

INSIDER

Transportation

Army to Consider Electric Vehicles, Alternative Fuel Options

Commercial-led advancements in electric vehicle technology have pushed the Army Futures and Concepts Center to take a hard look at the capability and find ways to integrate it...

Articles

Transportation

The Man From APPA-E

Engineers and scientists working in mobility R&D have described Dr. Chris Atkinson as a guiding light in their efforts to make future vehicle propulsion technologies more efficient— and commercially viable. One...

Articles

Transportation

Mid-engine History of The Future

What do a 1901 Curved-Dash Oldsmobile, a 1936 Auto Union Grand Prix car and the 2020 Acura NSX Hybrid and the new 2020 Chevrolet Corvette have in common?

Articles

Power

The Inside Story on Thermal Management

TLX Technologies designs and manufactures custom electro-mechanical solenoid products for the automotive industry. In this Q&A piece, Travis Mueller, TLX Design Engineer, discusses the importance of thermal management in today’s vehicle designs.

Articles

Manufacturing & Prototyping

Modeling Electric Motors

This article looks at an example of using some of the latest software technology to design a traction-drive motor for a medium-duty delivery truck.

Technical Innovation

Power

Prodrive, Volta Trucks Develop Electric Truck for Urban Driving

Working with Swedish start-up Volta Trucks, Prodrive is helping to engineer what promises to be a unique 16-tonne (17.6-ton) heavy goods vehicle (HGV).

Articles

Unmanned Systems

Wired for Autonomy

Engineers and product planners are already grappling with the complexity of autonomous vehicles (AVs), with the prospect of complexity increasing.

Technology Report

Imaging

Tier 1s Tout Newest Mobility Tech at CES 2020

At this year’s CES, Automotive Engineering was impressed by new developments in ADAS and AV sensing and processing, V2X connectivity, vehicle cabin sensing and related technologies, electrification advances and a number of vehicle introductions.

Application Briefs

Propulsion

Heavy Dump Truck

Mack Defense is partnering with Crysteel Manufacturing on the U.S. Army M917A3 Heavy Dump Truck (HDT)

Articles

Robotics, Automation & Control

The Road to Automobility

While substantial progress has been made, we are still on the first leg of the road to automobility. The innovation is in its infancy; there are plenty of opportunities for new ideas and breakthroughs.

What We’re Driving

Manufacturing & Prototyping

2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe

Lindsay Brooke was among the first media to have driven the mid-engine 2020 Stingray. His time in the car (during the North American Car, Truck and Utility of the Year judging) was but 45 minutes. A very invigorating 45 minutes, though.

News

Aerospace

AUSA 2019: A View From the Show Floor

Editor Bruce A. Bennett offers a look at the Association of the United States Army's 2019 Annual Meeting.

Briefs

Aerospace

SnowMicroPenetrometer Applications for Winter Vehicle Mobility

Characterizing the mechanical properties of snow and their impact on vehicle performance could improve vehicle winter mobility modeling.

What We’re Driving

Transportation

2020 Corolla Hybrid

Will Americans purchase a small, affordable, normal-looking hybrid? That appears to be Toyota’s mission with this new Corolla, which borrows liberally from its world-beating cousin.

Articles

Software

Optimizing NVH for EVs

Despite global sales market share stuck at single-digit levels, electric vehicles (EVs) are steadily filling the development pipelines at major OEMs. And as engineers are acutely aware, EVs bring a paradigm shift in the noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) arena.

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Transportation

Miserly Power Systems

Digital technologies continue to transform commercial trucking as powertrain providers devise new ways to eke more from each drop of fuel. Engines now adapt to road conditions, adjusting power and shutting down some or all of the cylinders as demands change.

Briefs

Aerospace

Real-Time Heuristics and Metaheuristics for Static and Dynamic Weapon Target Assignments

Projectile weapons have been a consistent threat of hostilities throughout history. Military advantage has always been aided by the capacity to inflict damage from a distance. In the 20th century, missile technology advanced to the point that an adversary had...

Original Equipment

Manned Systems

New Mercedes-Benz Actros Loaded with ADAS, Active Safety Tech

Mercedes-Benz Trucks, the European arm of the Daimler Trucks business, has launched an updated Actros heavy-duty truck flagship, packed with new technologies, vehicle safety and driver-assistance features.

Technical Innovation

Transportation

DSD Helps ‘Balance the Books’ for Buying Electric Truck Technology

In the discerning world of truck operations, where procurement decisions must be based on total cost of ownership (TCO), the case for moving to environmentally...

Articles

Software

Connectivity Solutions for AVs

There is broad agreement that AVs need connectivity for up-to-date high-resolution maps as road conditions and landmarks can change due to construction, for example.

Articles

Power

Other Expert Voices

Noted industry experts in Powertrain technologies shared their views on future propulsion trends during SAE’s 2019 WCX panel, “Still Not Dead: The ICE’s Continued Evolution,” moderated by Editor-in-Chief Lindsay Brooke. Read on to see the insights doled out.

Q&A

Power

Engineering Harley’s Electric 2020 LiveWire

Sean Stanley is one of a new generation of motorcycle engineers who are as fluent in battery cooling and electronics integration as their predecessors were in optimizing cam profiles and...

Articles

Transportation

Data Management and Storage for Autonomous-Vehicle Developers

Dell EMC chief technology officer Dr. Florian Baumann, Ph.D, discusses with SAE’s Autonomous Vehicle Engineering the important role of storage systems and data management in the face of growing data volumes and increasing performance requirements.

News

Mechanical & Fluid Systems

LASER World of PHOTONICS, Day 3 — Unusual Exhibits

Editor Bruce A. Bennett takes us through the unusual — and completely unexpected —at this year's LASER World of Photonics.