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Large-scale Additive Manufacturing for Rapid Vehicle Prototyping
In model-based development of vehicle powertrains, through hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) to mule integration, a new enabling design tool is emerging from recent advances in...
Articles Propulsion
Doing It Again — This Time With 10
Almost exactly a decade after Ford and General Motors initiated production of 6-speed planetary-gear automatics derived from the two companies’ first-ever transmission-development collaboration, the...
Articles Power
Bringing the Heat on Cooling Technologies
Thermal management continues to become more complex as engineers strive to cool engines while generating enough heat to burn away unwanted emissions matter. Ever smarter electronic controls are...
Articles Power
Clearing The Air
They’re not as certain as death and taxes, but tighter emissions regulations have become a constant presence in off-highway vehicle development programs. Design teams continue to focus on meeting mandates or fine-tuning...
Articles Materials
Lightweighting: WHAT’S NEXT?
Are there any automakers who haven’t yet put at least one new model through the weight-reduction wringer? Vehicle mass efficiency has joined the vanguard of product development where every gram lost is...
Articles Automotive
Inside the Autonomous Vehicle
As self-driving technology eventually becomes reliable and safe, the role of the human driver will change dramatically. Instead of acting as a full-time operator, the driver will become a part-time operator...
Articles Automotive
Solving the GHG Puzzle
When the U.S. EPA published its Technical Assessment Report (TAR) draft in July on how well the auto industry is meeting federal fuel economy mandates, as a prelude to the Mid-Term Evaluation of the 2022-2025 national...
Articles Connectivity
U.S. Army Marches Toward Driverless Future
Four tractor-trailer rigs barreled eastbound on Interstate 69 in rural Michigan, their non-reflective olive drab and desert-tan paint and blast-resistant glass the giveaways that this was a U.S....
Articles Electronics & Computers
Touch Takes Hold, Switches Lend a Hand
System developers are leaving no technology unturned in their effort to boost performance by improving comfort. Touch screens dominate human-machine interface (HMI) development, but rotary knobs and push...
Articles Electronics & Computers
MEMS the Word for Next-gen HUDs
Nearly 30 years after the first automotive head-up display (HUD) for production cars was offered by GM on the 1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme and Pontiac Grand Prix — and 55 years after the first airborne...
Articles Transportation
Delphi’s Multi-domain Mindset
Mary Gustanski lives in a James Bond movie. It hasn’t yet been released but she’s certain it will be at some future date. In her film-nightmare, the evil-genius villain on the remote island has hacked...
Articles Transportation
Steering Mazda’s Unique Course
In 1999 Mazda Motor Corp.’s current Chairman, Seita Kanai, had just taken over as program manager for the first-generation Atenza/ Mazda6. The new car was a top priority and its success was deemed vital...
Articles Energy
The Battery Man Speaks
The future of vehicle electrification is all about the battery. The industry’s steady progress in reducing lithium-ion battery cost while increasing energy density, durability and reliability has surprised one of...
Editorial Power
No, Really, What’s an SDV?
What is an SDV? No, you can’t just say “software defined vehicle,” because that’s not precise enough. Software has been part of modern vehicles for decades, but the code didn’t define the car. So,...
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Thermal Management Lies at the Heart of EV Innovation
At the heart of innovations that have powered improvements in EV range and performance is the pursuit of efficiency. Today’s electric drivetrains convert over 85% of a battery’s...
Articles Robotics, Automation & Control
INDUSTRY 4.0: The Smart Factory Arrives
A new “data-driven” manufacturing facility that Faurecia opened in Columbus, IN, in October 2016 embodies perfectly the premise and promise of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT): a smart...
Articles Power
Expediting Engine Design
Creating or updating a new engine today is more complicated than ever. Most heavy-duty and off-highway engine makers are expanding their product lines, responding to an increasingly diverse global marketplace. A...
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Mercedes: H2-ICE Is Ready for Primetime in Commercial Trucks
Mercedes-Benz has unveiled a pair of prototypes powered by hydrogen combustion engines that were created in collaboration with Mörtlbauer Baumaschinen Vertriebs. The prototypes...
Articles Power
Bridging the Power Gap with 48 Volts
The hybrid Lincoln MKZ I'm driving feels like it's floating on air as we hustle down I-75, the combustion engine having been shut off by a clever bit of electrification. On this long, flat stretch of...
Articles Software
New EEAs for the Connected, Autonomous Future
The connected, electrified and eventually driverless vehicle revolution has a less publicized but equally important back story — the development of next-generation electrical and electronic...
Articles Automotive
Patton’s New Campaign
From his elevated position with the American arm of automotive megasupplier Denso, Doug Patton has a commanding view of the engineering landscape — and some power to help shape it.
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Consumer Electronics Come on Board
The tablets and smartphones that transformed consumer electronics are now poised to enter heavy-duty vehicle markets. They’re already becoming part of the maintenance and diagnostic world, while some...
Articles Transportation
Active Vibration Damping for Construction Machines
Read on to learn more about an innovative concept for active ride control reduces machine oscillations based on frequency identification.
Articles Transportation
Inside the Bolt EV
Cutaway propulsion systems displayed at motor shows attract engineers faster than free beer and pizza. So perhaps it wasn’t surprising when Matthias Mueller, the newly-promoted chairman of Volkswagen Group, and his...
Articles Automotive
Achates Powers toward Production
Nothing short of a game-changing technology has any chance of disrupting the world’s combustion-engine mainstream, it is generally believed. Felix Wankel’s rotary came the closest, carving out a...
News Power
2025 Lucid Air Review: Unnecessarily Fast, Astonishingly Efficient
As amazing as the Lucid Air is to drive – and it is amazing – it doesn’t hold a candle to hearing CEO Peter Rawlinson explain exactly why his company’s all-electric...
Articles Power
Targeting 40% BTE with Advanced VCR
Nissan’s announcement at the 2016 Paris Motor Show that it will bring a variable-compression-ratio engine to production in 2018 (see AE November, 2016, p. 6) energized those in the advanced-ICE...
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Sensor ICs, Semiconductors and Safety
What system-level risks and related safety implications are lurking within the vehicles you’re developing? Electrification, greater overall electronics content and the trend toward autonomous vehicle...
Articles Automotive
Tailoring Fuel Injection to Control NOx
Future diesel engine legislation, such as the EU’s Stage V and possible Tier 5 in the U.S. for off-highway, demand further improvements to reduce CO2 while keeping the already-low NOx emissions...
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