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You’ve got regulations, cost and personal preferences all getting in the way of the next generation of automated vehicles. Oh, and those pesky legal issues about who’s at fault should something happen. Under all...
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The Impact of Fast Charging on the EV Charging Chain
With fast charging becoming more common, precise and reliable temperature sensing across the charging chain will remain critical even as battery technologies evolve. Read on to learn why.
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Betting Big on LFP Battery Cells for Electric Commercial Vehicles
Accelera by Cummins, Daimler Truck, and Paccar collaborate to establish a 21-GWh dedicated factory for lithium iron phosphate battery cell manufacturing in the U.S. Read on to learn what that means for you.
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Volvo Trucks’ Battery Chemistry of Choice: NCA
While Daimler Truck and Paccar are pursuing LFP battery cells, Volvo Trucks employs lithium-ion batteries in which lithium nickel cobalt aluminum oxide (NCA) is used as the cathode — for now anyway. The Swedish truck maker is continuously exploring other battery technologies. Read on to learn more.
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Developing Safer Batteries with Solid-State Polymer Electrolytes
A 100 percent solid-state, high-performance polymer electrolyte addresses issues with liquid electrolytes for safer battery cell designs. Read this article to learn more.
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Batteries and Recycling: The Next Frontier
Recycling EV batteries has been a goal of the auto industry for many years, but the infrastructure to make that a widespread reality is still in the early stages. As the amount of used lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery cells coming from EVs increases, the industry is getting ready to turn them into fresh packs. Read on to learn more.
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In Pursuit of a Dedicated Hydrogen ICE for Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Heavy-duty vehicle regulations from the European Union specify a 43% carbon emissions reduction by 2030. The EU’s carbon emissions reduction mandate climbs to 64% by 2035...
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Brownout for Commercial-Vehicle Electrification?
The high cost of batteries to electrify on-road commercial vehicles is one thing. But some connected with or studying electrification for the CV sector now are concerned that the cost of...
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Blazer EV Is a Steel-Intensive Showcase
Chevrolet Blazer EV customers are likely to cite the Ultium battery and dual-motor driveline as their vehicle’s most advanced technologies. But in doing so, they’d miss an equally key aspect of...
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Q&A: Three’s Not a Crowd When It Comes to ADAS Sensors
SAE Media spoke with Clement Nouvel, Valeo’s chief technical officer for lidar, about Valeo’s background in ADAS and what’s coming next. Nouvel leads over 300 lidar engineers...
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Realizing Software-Defined Commercial Vehicles
Severe driver shortages, rising fuel and material costs, escalating demand for freight transport, higher sustainability requirements – there is no shortage of challenges facing the transport...
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ZF’s Latest Safety Advances Open Up, Tighten up and Double Down
ZF knows that the steering wheel remains one of the most relevant components in an automotive interior, because this is where drivers have direct contact to the vehicle. As...
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Eaton and BAE Gear up a New Electrified Truck
One of the advantages that OEMs have long touted for battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) has been the elimination of components like the transmission. The instant torque that an electric motor can...
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Standards Play a Vital Role
As autonomous vehicle development expands throughout the mobility industry, the competitors are agreeing on one thing: there is a vital need for standards related to the new technologies. Read on to learn the experts' opinions on the matter.
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Autonomy: the New Age of Automobility
The self-driving future brings profound implications for the auto industry — and unprecedented mobility to a lot more people. Read on to learn Lawrence D. Burns', Ph.D, opinion on what this means.
Articles Transportation
Automated Data Translation in THE HOT SEAT
Seating development and manufacturing are full of variables that need to be streamlined and made manageable to accommodate a complex array of customers, partners, product variants and end...
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Are Today’s Sensors Ready for Next-Level Automated Driving?
SAE Level 3 automated driving marks a clear break from the lower levels of driving assistance since that is the dividing line where the driver can be freed to focus on things...
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Volvo Hits Milestones for Autonomous Trucks and Electrified Off-Highway Machine
Volvo made several key announcements at the 2024 ACT Expo in Las Vegas. The company also reaffirmed its goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions with a 100%...
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Refreshed 2025 Cadillac Escalade Features 55-Inch Dash Display
Amid its constant rollout of new battery electric vehicles, Cadillac today announced a refreshed and tech-laden 2025 version of its flagship internal-combustion SUV, the...
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Hexagon Agility Partners with Brudeli for Hybrid CNG Truck Powertrains
Hexagon Agility announced a collaboration with Norwegian EV transmission supplier Brudeli Green Mobility at the 2024 ACT Expo in Las Vegas. The partnership’s goal is...
Supplier Eye Energy
Planning with a Scenario Mindset
Across the industry, strategic planners from OEMs and suppliers alike are scratching their heads. The number of strategic directions they currently face is unprecedented. Combine global trade friction...
Articles Energy
FirstElement Opens America’s First High-Volume, Fast-Fill Hydrogen Station for HD Trucks
It may be missing the food and hospitality trappings of what most would consider a proper “truck stop,” but the nation’s first high-volume,...
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Euro NCAP Details New Testing for Heavy-Truck Safety Rating
Euro NCAP has revealed the elements it is considering as part of an upcoming Truck Safe rating, and how it intends to test and benchmark truck performance. The announcement was...
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Sinonus Carbon-Fiber Structural Batteries Would Reduce Weight While Adding Range
Carbon-fiber structural batteries are not entirely new, but now Sinonus, a company spun out of Chalmers Technical University in Gothenburg, Sweden, is further...
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Catering to Off-Highway EVs’ Unique Thermal Need
A rarity only a few years ago, electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming part of the daily lives of constantly increasing numbers of drivers. In the first quarter of 2024 alone, passenger EV...
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AYE, ROBOT!
Since 1961, General Motors has used robots for work described by the three Ds — difficult, dangerous or dirty. About a decade ago, GM started looking at ways to move robots from today’s highly-restricted work cells into an...
Articles Transportation
Defanging Driverless Cars
A pioneering program gives everyday people the chance to ride in an automated vehicle on public roads. Read on to learn more about it.
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Truck Platoons on the Move
Research into truck platoons is running hot as companies investigate benefits such as fuel savings, safety, diminished congestion and reduced driver fatigue. Before these gains can be realized, a number of...
Articles Transportation
Software Rewrites the Rules
The auto industry’s evolution to a product differentiation based on services and software is prompting a transformation in areas as diverse as the structure of business relationships through cybersecurity for...
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