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Camry's Mid-Cycle "Refresh" More Than Just Front and Rear Panels
A mid-cycle "refresh" usually means primarily new front and rear styling treatments, and although the 2015 Toyota Camry body has those changes, it is almost all-new. Only the...
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Audi TT Designed for the Digital Age Driver
The all-new Audi TT sports car poses a crucial question: Is it too clever by half?
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Ultra-Fast Epoxy Resin
Voraforce 5300 resin matrix from Dow Automotive Systems offers 90-s cycle times for resin transfer molding (RTM), making RTM-produced carbon-fiber composites suitable for mass production. According to the company,...
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SwRI’s D-EGR Demo Car Wows SAE Engines Symposium with 42% BTE
Aside from the colorful decals plastered on its body, the 2012 Buick Regal GS appears to be stock. But underneath its skin is an advanced gasoline combustion system that...
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New Rules Shuffle the F1 Deck
This season will see an almost entirely new slate of rules for Formula One that effectively make it a different series. The cars are changed aerodynamically and have dramatically different power sources. Stiff...
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Aerodynamics and Flow Simulations Come of Age
"Adecade ago, we had to convince people that CFD and simulation had value. Nowadays CFD is a well-accepted tool in the automotive industry used in all phases of the vehicle development...
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No Hands, Lots of Brains
Autonomous vehicles have garnered much attention in recent months, but many technical hurdles face developers tasked with giving drivers more freedom to do other tasks. Engineers need to develop hardware and software...
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PSA, Toyota JV Spawns a New City Car Model Range
A successful joint venture between PSA Peugeot Citroën and Toyota brought one of the most successful city car model ranges to Europe in 2005. The 2014 Geneva Motor Show saw the launch of the...
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Volvo Concept Estate Shows Clues for New XC90
News that Volvo would be adopting Apple’s CarPlay graphical interface system, demonstrated in the company’s latest concept at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show, gained almost as much attention as...
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Alfieri Concept Marks Maserati Centenary
Maserati celebrates its centenary in 2014, and the Alfieri, named after Alfieri Maserati, founder of the original Maserati Company, is the concept car that was unveiled at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show...
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SAE Committee to Work with VDA on R-744 A/C Standards
R-1234yf may be the choice of most car manufacturers worldwide as the new low-global-warming (LGW) A/C refrigerant to replace R-134a, but as many in the industry have learned, there are...
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Compact RTD Temperature Sensors
Omega Engineering, Inc.’s new RTDM12 series of compact resistance temperature detector (RTD) sensors are extremely rugged with a molded (IP67) four-pin connector with M12 male thread and a fast response time....
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Addressing the Needs of an Aging Population
With more than 75 million Baby Boomers (those aged 50-68) in the U.S., the automotive industry is now faced with the necessity to design products to meet the unique needs of this substantial...
Articles Propulsion
First Look: GM’s New Modular Ecotec Engines
GM Powertrain engineers have revealed technical and development details of their company's all-new Modular Ecotec family of long-stroke 1.0- to 1.5-L three- and four-cylinder gasoline engines...
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ZF's CEO Talks About Lightweight Vehicle Applications
The debut of a brake pedal and its housing unit made from fiber-reinforced thermoplastics on a MY2014 German sports car serves as a vivid example of weight-conscious products reaching production application.
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New Sandvik Stainless Tubing Enables Higher-Pressure GDI
GDI systems facilitate the injection of fuel into the cylinders at considerably higher pressures, resulting in a more controlled and even burn.
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Titanium Auto Parts 3D-Printed from Low-Cost Metal Powders
Sterling strength-to-weight ratios and corrosion resistance make titanium ideal for building lightweight vehicles. The problem has always been cost; it takes great quantities of...
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DSPACE Enhances Environment for Electric Motor Controller Testing
The FPGA device can be configured graphically with standard dSPACE tools, so that users can react flexibly to new requirements, such as new I/O interfaces or faster simulation.
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CPT's Switched-Reluctance Motor-Generator Seen as Path to 48-V Systems
Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) will demonstrate two technologies in booth 422 (and in technical paper presentations) at the SAE 2014 World Congress April 8-10 in...
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Ricardo’s Scalable TorqStor Flywheel System Promises FE Gains at Reduced Cost
The technology provides short-term energy storage for hybridization without the high cost, environmental impact, or unfamiliar servicing requirements and safety considerations of supercapacitors and chemical batteries.
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FEV/DGE System Automates HMI Validation Process
With a multitude of infotainment system options currently on the market, and more coming soon, ensuring that these systems perform as intended in the vehicle prior to release is of utmost importance for automakers.
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48-V System
IAV will showcase its 48-V system at the SAE 2014 World Congress April 8-10 in Detroit. The system was developed with several objectives in mind: to significantly reduce CO2 emissions; provide a cost-effective solution for use in...
Product Briefs Automotive
Multi-Fuel Analyzer
To be displayed at the SAE 2014 World Congress April 8-10 in Detroit, the Miniscan IRXpert analyzer from AMETEK Petrolab Co. is a portable multi-fuel analyzer for gasoline, diesel, and biodiesel blends incorporating mid-IR...
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Browser-Based Automation Software
Elysium Inc.’s CADfeature 11.3 is a new browser-enhanced, feature-based program for repairing, migrating, and reporting on product engineering data that is exchanged within manufacturing organizations and...
Product Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Color Multi-Material 3-D Printer
The Objet500 Connex3 color multi-material 3-D printer from Stratasys is the first and only 3-D printer to combine colors with multi-material 3-D printing, according to the company. Suitable for product design,...
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Soft Magnetic Material
FINEMET by Hitachi Metals is claimed to be the first nanocrystalline soft magnetic material to be developed. The material, which will be displayed at the SAE 2014 World Congress April 8-10 in Detroit, has high saturation...
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LifeBelt Prevents Submarining
LifeBelt from Lifebelt Pty. Ltd. is a webbing strap placed in the seat base, just below the seating surface, which is continuous with the standard seatbelt and is loaded when the seatbelt loads. Its effect is to...
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Cylinder Bore Surface Testing
NanoFocus Inc.'s μsurf cylinder tool, which will be displayed at the SAE 2014 World Congress April 8-10 in Detroit, provides a nondestructive technique for high-resolution 3-D measurements of the inside of...
Product Briefs Design
Polypropylene Rigid Honeycomb Board
Stinger polypropylene rigid honeycomb-cored structural sheet from Coroplast will be displayed at SAE 2014 World Congress April 8-10 in Detroit. The Stinger board provides stiffness, strength, impact...
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