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Volkswagen Engineer Pleads Guilty in U.S. Diesel-Emissions Coverup
A veteran Volkswagen AG engineer pleaded guilty in federal court to a criminal charge for his involvement in the German automaker’s ongoing diesel-emissions scandal,...
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Navy Ship Completes Test Trials Using 100% Renewable Diesel
It’s a first for a U.S. Navy ship: running on 100% renewable fuel, that is.
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Altair Names 2016’s Lightweight Standouts
The auto industry’s annual award program devoted exclusively to vehicle mass-reduction innovations recently named General Motors' Cadillac CT6 and ContiTech’s polyamide crossbeam as winners of...
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Modeling, Simulation Expand Their Role in Powertrain Development
Modeling and simulation continue to help suppliers and OEMs provide systems and vehicles that do more work while conserving fuel, reducing emissions and keeping costs in...
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GM Shines Brightest in Latest OEM-Supplier Relations Study
“The continuing challenge facing automakers is very simple: They need to understand the difference between process improvement and work relations improvement. Some OEMs don’t...
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Mississippi State University's Car of the Future Features Novel Innovations
A rear-wheel-drive sports car’s estimated triple-digit mpg and predicted 5.7-s 0 to 60 mph (0 to 97 km/h) acceleration time are the prime performance cues...
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New NXP System Drives Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Vehicles
Silicon suppliers are stepping up to help facilitate progress in the road to autonomous driving. NXP Semiconductors has unveiled its BlueBox, which handles sensor fusion, analysis...
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Fungus-Inspired Improvements in Battery Performance
Carbon fibers derived from a sustainable source, a type of wild mushroom, and modified with nanoparticles have been shown to outperform conventional graphite electrodes for lithium-ion...
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GM Prepping Industry-First Steel-To-Aluminum Welding Process
General Motors is poised to pull the trigger on a potentially game-changing manufacturing process to spot weld steel to aluminum. In the first production application for the...
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International Truck Offers Over-The-Air Programming for 2017 Cummins Engines
Building on the introduction of over-the-air (OTA) programming for its proprietary engines, International Truck is now offering OTA programming for Cummins...
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The Race to Engineer Robotic Personal Mobility
In her year-end LinkedIn post last December, GM CEO Mary Barra predicted that “2016 and beyond will be pivotal in terms of how people around the world will get from Point A to Point B…Game...
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Volvo CE Launches Its Largest Excavator and Articulated Hauler
During the company’s nearly hour-long briefing at Bauma 2016 in Munich, Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) President Martin Weissburg underscored how the company remains...
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Turbo Compounding, I-Shift with Crawler Gears New to Volvo's 2017 Powertrain Lineup
Volvo Trucks North America checks off multiple customer requisites with its model year 2017 powertrain refinements—increased fuel efficiency,...
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New York Auto Show 2016: Mazda Reveals Retractable-Hardtop MX-5 RF
Moving quickly to expand the appeal of the all-new, fourth-generation MX-5 Miata roadster introduced last year, Mazda revealed prior to the 2016 New York auto show a folding...
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2016 Altair Enlighten Award Adds New Category to Honor Lightweighting Efforts
Nominations for the fourth annual Altair Enlighten Award are now being accepted, with the 2016 award program including two distinct categories recognizing vehicle...
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GHG Phase 2 Regs, Autonomous Vehicles Present Challenges, Opportunities
PACCAR Technical Center works closely with all of the company’s truck divisions—DAF in Europe, Peterbilt and Kenworth in North America and globally—and has two...
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Direct Part Marking Replaces Labels, Saves Supplier $1 Million
A major Tier 1 automotive supplier was required by its customers to mark each of a family of plastic body panels that it produced with a 2D Data Matrix bar code. In the past,...
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Two Approaches to AWD Show Improved Fuel Economy, Reduced System Weight
The increasing popularity of all-wheel drive (AWD) is up against the regulatory demands for improved fuel economy, while the buying public also is looking for improved...
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Top Speed on Mars: 0.1 Mph
The six-wheeled Curiosity rover exploring Mars’ surface gets its instructions from a lead driver working inside the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA.
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Evora 400 Becomes Most Powerful Production Lotus Ever
Lotus regards its Evora 400, to be unveiled at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show this week, as virtually a new model.
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Delphi's RACam Integrated Radar-Vision System Enables Active-Safety Suites
Volvo’s 2015 XC90 features RACam, claimed to be the world’s first integrated radar and vision data-fusion system. Supplied by Delphi as the Tier 1, and on display...
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Continental’s Latest EHorizon Platform Expands Real-Time Driver Information
Developed in partnership with IBM and location cloud company Here, the latest evolution of Continental's eHorizon software uses digital mapping and cloud-based data...
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Slimmer, Stronger A- and B-Pillars
One of the main goals of ThyssenKrupp’s InCar plus (phase 2) project, which the company claims is the largest manufacturer-independent development project by an automotive supplier, is weight reduction....
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FEV Shows Compact DCT for FWD Vehicles
Current production dual-clutch transmissions (DCTs) are limited by their inherent mechanical complexity, according to FEV engineers. In addition, most conventional DCTs are characterized by drivers as...
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AVL Transmission Aims at Best-In-Class PHEV Performance
For its new 7-Mode transmission, AVL focused on key requirements for hybrid drivetrains including best-in-class fuel consumption in NEDC charge-sustaining mode, full drivetrain...
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Active Noise Control
Mentor Automotive’s XSe ANC (Active Noise Control) technology is a high-performance noise cancellation solution that can perform a host of functions with fewer hardware components, requiring less tuning and calibration...
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Wheel Motion Sensor
Applus IDIADA listened to customer feedback in developing its new DynaWheel-III device, focusing on making the system even more reliable and easy-to-use. The wheel position measurement system is composed of two separate...
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Denso Shows Readiness for V2X and Smart City
Denso, a major player in a number of markets from home to automotive, displayed at the 2015 North American International Auto Show in Detroit an electronically activated diorama of a city and its...
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Virtual Road Traffic
A model for traffic and environment simulations from dSPACE supports the testing of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). ASM Traffic 3.0, part of the Automotive Simulation Models (ASM) library, simulates active...
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