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Ultra-Wide, Low-Distortion Lenses for Crash Testing Environments
In the demanding field of automotive crash testing, imaging systems face a dual challenge: They must survive extreme forces while delivering precise, distortion-free footage for...
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The Future of Axial- and Radial-Flux Motors
Traditionally, most motors used in EVs and mobility platforms have been radial flux systems. In recent years, there have been major strides in alternative axial flux motor architectures. What exactly do these architectural differences mean for motor design and production? Read on to find out.
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EV Industry Grapples with Unprecedented Battery Regulation Compliance Challenges
The EU Battery Regulation demands unprecedented granularity in supply chain tracking. Read on to learn more about what this means.
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The End of the Beginning: Why the EV Market Will Overcome the Loss of Tax Credits
Will EV sales in the U.S. double by the end of the decade, or more? Will the U.S. keep pace with China’s relentless iterative improvements on EV technology, or will China increasingly dominate the rapidly electrifying global transportation industry? Read on to learn more.
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Heavy-Payload Conveyance Paves the Way for Next-Generation Battery Manufacturing
Battery packs are becoming larger and heavier, particularly in applications such as electric trucks, aviation and renewable energy storage. As payload requirements increase, manufacturers are turning to advanced automation and material handling systems to keep pace. Read on to learn what this means.
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Driving Safety Forward: How Simulation and MODSIM Accelerate ADAS Innovation
Dassault Systèmes offers MODSIM for model-based systems engineering, integrating modeling and simulation from the very start of the design process. This methodology enables multidisciplinary teams to work together on a shared platform, using common data and synchronized models. Read on to learn more.
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Talking SDVs and Zonal Architecture with TE Connectivity
For a company focused on selling components to make physical connections in vehicles, TE Connectivity is more than ready for future growth in software-defined vehicles (SDVs) and the...
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Experts agree on need for large-scale fire testing of battery energy storage systems
A panel of four battery testing experts from different fields agreed that large scale fire testing, as called for in a proposed update to testing standard...
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Battery Show: Bosch Rexroth adds HS linear motion, 6D floating prototype to multi-axis systems
Bosch Rexroth displayed new battery automation solutions at The Battery Show 2025 in Detroit this week, focusing on making batteries in a more...
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Battery Show: Pickering 5-amp battery simulator speeds up BMS testing
Engineers looking for a new way to simulate battery cells as they develop new battery management systems might be interested in the latest PXI battery simulator modules...
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GM to have LMR long-distance battery deployed by 2028
A GM battery executive told an audience at the Battery Show North America audience Tuesday that the company would deploy a lithium manganese-rich (LMR) battery by 2028 in some of its...
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Battery Show 2025: Freudenberg’s new busbar seals handle the bends
As EV battery designs continue to explore new pack shapes, Freudenberg Sealing Technologies has developed a new, flexible busbar sealing technology that enables...
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The Factory’s Hidden Power Grid
How can carmakers make significant strides inside their plants to cut waste and improve sustainability? Read on to find out.
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Battery Innovation Key for Commercial and Off-Highway EVs
The move to electrified on- and off-highway equipment is not without its challenges. The industry itself lags greatly behind the passenger car industry, which accounted for 17.5 million EVs sold globally last year. But why? Read on to find out.
Articles Energy
Solving Fleet Electrification Bottlenecks with Battery-Integrated Charging Systems
Charging infrastructure has become the primary bottleneck to fleet electrification. Despite growing demand for electric trucks and increasing pressure to decarbonize logistics operations, many fleet operators face long delays for grid upgrades, transformer installations, and permitting, at times waiting more than a year to power vehicles that have already arrived. OptiGrid was formed in response to this growing gap between vehicle readiness and infrastructure availability. Read on to learn more.
Articles Materials
Next-Generation Elastomer Seals: Enhancing Battery Safety and Sustainability in E-Mobility
As the EV market accelerates toward mass adoption, the need for durable, efficient, and scalable battery technologies is reshaping supply chain priorities across the automotive and energy sectors. Advanced sealing materials, such as high-performance elastomers, are emerging as strategic enablers in this transformation. Read on to learn more.
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Driving EV Development with a Twin-Battery Approach
IAV hopes that its twin-battery design concept will function as a showcase to others in the battery industry that, even if you have demands that are contradicting, there can still be a solution. Read on to learn more.
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BMW Brings EV Motor Production to Steyr in Austria
In August, the BMW Group's Plant Steyr in Austria started producing the electric motors for its Neue Klasse EVs. The sixth-generation BMW eDrive is the first all-electric drivetrain that...
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Ford Unveils Its Universal EV Platform
In a briefing ahead of today's announcement, Ford's chief EV, digital and design chief Doug Field used the C word: China. Field said that the company's Universal EV Platform would through, "really...
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Upstream: Better Data Collection, Processing Will Reduce SDV Recalls
Cars that are more connected, equipped with more sensors than ever before, should make proactive maintenance somewhat easy and reliable. Drivers could have lower repair...
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First Drive: 2026 Hyundai Palisade
Years ago, Hyundai hosted a Palisade drive program for journalists consisted mostly of driving on a gravel road for a few hours. It was weird, and many a journalist told them so. Probably not as a direct...
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Factorial CEO Says Cells with 375Wh/kg Energy Density a ‘Milestone’ for Stellantis
In April, Stellantis and Factorial Energy announced that the two companies validated automotive-sized solid-state battery cells with an energy density...
Articles Automotive
Electronic Stability Control Builds the Foundation for Safer Roads
Read on to learn how a mechanically simple idea has kept cars stable for decades, and why it can still evolve for an autonomous future.
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Simulating Forward Motion at VI-Grade’s Zero Prototypes Day
VI-grade doesn’t rest much. New software for its simulations, new simulators to run that software, and new HiL solutions mean there’s always something new happening. And much of this was on hand at the company’s 2025 North American Zero Prototypes Day, held in Novi, Michigan, over the summer. Read on to learn more about it.
Technology Report Energy
EV Battery Safety: Advanced Coatings, Composite Solutions for Fire and Blast Protection
Thermal runaway in electric vehicle batteries is rare, but it can happen, producing smoke, fire, and explosions. This uncontrollable, self-heating state can transfer intense heat to adjacent cells and cause pressure buildups that exceed the mechanical limits of cell casings. Read on to learn how to avoid it.
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Inside Slate's Warsaw Factory
Slate bought a factory. The 1.4 million sq. ft. (130,000 m3) facility was formerly a printing company. Sears, JCPenny, and Radio Shack catalogs emerged from the RR Donnelley & Sons printing plant for...
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Sonatus Launches AI Director to Integrate More AI in More Vehicles
Vehicle software company Sonatus wants the automotive industry to rethink the role of the middle manager. At least, when those managers are AI-based. The company unveiled...
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SAE Books: Vehicle Fire Safety with Erbis Biscarri
A seasoned engineer with a multi-discipline background in electronics, manufacturing systems, and forensic analysis, Erbis Biscarri brought decades of experience to the topic of automotive safety in his latest work. Biscarri’s book, Fires in Conventional and Electrified Vehicles: Theory, Prevention, and Analysis, published by SAE International, offers a comprehensive guide to one of the industry’s most pressing challenges: vehicle fire safety. Read on to learn more.
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MOIA’s L4 ID. Buzz AVs Starting Service Next Year
Mobileye announced in June that its ongoing work with Volkswagen will deliver the automaker’s first production SAE Level 4 autonomous vehicles sometime in 2026. The first of these...
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