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CES 2024: Magna Puts Multiple Innovations in New, More Efficient 800v E-Motor

Ahead of its press conference this week at CES in Las Vegas, Magna International showed journalists a brand new 800-volt e-drive motor that it said sets new...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Steeling for Reduced Mass and Higher Strength

OEMs are now willing to pay over three times the cost of conventional carbon steel, experts say, for new material solutions that reduce vehicle mass while retaining crash integrity and overall durability.

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Transportation

Underway on Nuclear Power

At Ford Motor Co., CTO Dr. Ken Washington is driving new approaches to technology innovation — from inside and outside the enterprise.

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Original Equipment
Transportation

Komatsu Targets Productivity, Operator Comfort With New WA480-8 Wheel Loader

Komatsu America has added to its wheel loader family with the recent introduction of the new WA480-8, powered by a 299-hp (223-kW), 11.04-L, EPA Tier 4 Final certified, SAA6D125E-7 engine that burns up to 20 percent less fuel than its Tier 3 predecessor.

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Sitting on the Job

Engineers in commercial seating are exploring a range of materials and concepts to help reduce operator fatigue and discomfort. Many advances come from automotive companies that have the volumes to support much research.

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Design

Switching to Comfort Mode

Knobs and buttons once ruled the roost, but now they must work in tandem with touchscreens, which are ubiquitous in vehicles of all types. As they handle more functions, design teams are coming up with techniques that reduce operator movement by making them easier to reach.

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Transportation

Heavy-Duty Engine Design

Increasing regulations and market demands call for cleaner, more durable and fuel-efficient engines. Developers rely on CAE simulation, enhanced test methods and 3D printing to keep up.

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Technical Innovation
Power

AxleTech Develops Electric Independent Suspension Concept for Vehicles Up to 58,000-lb GCWR

Intended for a range of vehicle types — full battery electric vehicles, fuel cell range-extender EVs, and internal combustion engine or turbine generator range extenders — the 5000 Series electric independent suspension axle system (eISAS) recently revealed by AxleTech serves as a complete electric powertrain.

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Green Design & Manufacturing

In Support of Diesel’s Future

Dr. Ing. Stefan Pischinger serves as Professor and Director of the Institute of Combustion Engines RWTH Aachen, Germany. He is also a member of the supervisory board at Mahle GmbH. Dr. Pischinger spoke with Editor-in-Chief Lindsay Brooke in Detroit.

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Software

Engineering at the Crossroads

As the industry pivots to automated/connected vehicles, new research and initiatives are guiding SAE to develop training and education programs to help working engineers and students succeed.

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Autonomy and Operating Systems

Automotive Engineering editorial director Bill Visnic recently spoke with Chris Heiser, co-founder and CEO of Renovo Auto, which is developing open-platform autonomous-vehicle operating system (OS) called AWare.

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The Navigator
Transportation

Ideas for Multi-Modal Mobility

E-scooters, electric sports cars, hyperloops, ubiquitous wireless connectivity, cloud computing — each on their own are precursor components that offer some benefits, just like lithium-ion cells and Segways.

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Supplier Eye
RF & Microwave Electronics

The Future of “Core” Vehicle Systems

As the industry looks to the future, let’s pay attention to the critical role ahead for traditional systems. Differentiating and driving value will sustain their success.

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SAE Standards News
Transportation

Battery-Size Standards Technical Information Report Available

With the constantly changing landscape in lithium-ion battery development and more than 130 unique cell sizes in different global standards, the electric vehicle (EV) battery market has become crowded with an array of products.

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Green Design & Manufacturing

OEMs Deny Suppliers the Limelight

OEMs direct the sourcing and write the checks, so they control the message at launch. And that means little or no acknowledgement of vital supplier technology contributions.

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Editorial
Transportation

Electrify the U.S. Postal Fleet!

What better way to promote the reliable, durable, quiet, clean, and low-cost operation of EVs than to have them serving us daily in our neighborhoods?

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SAE Standards News
Information Technology

SAE Publishes First Global Standard on Shared Mobility

In September 2018, after just a 10-month process, SAE published J3163, the first globally-developed shared-mobility standard. It defines shared mobility as the shared use of a vehicle, motorcycle, scooter, bicycle or other travel mode, to provide users with short-term access to a transportation mode on an as-needed basis.

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Supplier Eye
Green Design & Manufacturing

Moving the Goalposts of Emission Compliance

Placing definitive bets on any one compliance technology is a careful process of balancing several considerations, including cost, consumer acceptance, competitive considerations, and capital. Knowing the future location of the goal posts is the most important consideration.

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The Navigator
Transportation

Engineering AVs to ‘Play Nice’ With Humans

The reality of automated driving is that it’s going to take many years, decades even, to largely supplant human driving.

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Transportation

Electrifying the Two-Wheeler

Alta Motors did not set out to create a zero-emission vehicle or invent a vital cog in the new landscape of electrified mobility. It wanted to build the best motorcycle it could regardless of powertrain, with products to satisfy the most serious motorcyclists.

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AR/AI

CES 2024: SDVs Redefine OEM and Supplier Relationships, Deliver New Features

For a technology set to define our automotive future for years to come, it’s surprising that not everyone in the industry can agree on what a...

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Automotive

AV Testing is for DUMMIES

Rapid development of automated vehicles is driving ATD innovations, as Humanetics’ CEO Chris O’Connor explains here.

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Energy

Tremec-Trification

Tremec is charting a future in vehicle electrification that leverages the company’s gear-manufacturing history while clearly departing from its intrinsic connection to internal combustion engine. Tremec, a...

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Manned Systems

Daimler Truck and Torc Intensify Pursuit of Autonomous Trucks

Several autonomous-truck startups faltered in 2023. Another blow to the sector came in December, when TuSimple laid off about 150 employees, or 75% of its U.S. workforce, as...

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Technical Innovation
Power

Tevva & ZF Integrate Brake-By-Wire Regen System for Last Mile BEV

UK-based EV manufacturer Tevva recently completed development of a regenerative braking system on the company’s 7.5-ton battery-electric truck. Tevva collaborated with...

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Transportation

Packaging Honda’s all-new Insight

Honda’s Noriyuki Sato spoke through a translator with Editor-in-Chief Lindsay Brooke about what he calls “the Smart, Green Sedan” development. Read on to learn his, well, insight.

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Power

Aluminum’s Rising Star

The impact aluminum is having on vehicle manufacturing, on sourcing — and on electric-vehicle engineering — was in full view on a recent visit to Constellium Automotive Structures' plant west of Detroit in Van Buren Township, MI.

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Q&A
Information Technology

Perkins Pursues Plug-and-play Connectivity

Michael Wright, Perkins General Manager, Aftermarket, shares his thoughts on how you add connectivity to an engine with no electronic control system. Read the interview.

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Original Equipment
Manned Systems

eCitaro to Replace Conventional City Buses

Based on the proven Citaro platform but incorporating design elements from the Mercedes-Benz Future Bus concept, the new eCitaro is poised to almost completely replace city buses powered by a combustion engine in just a few years.

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