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Leak Testing of Commercial-Vehicle AC Systems Critical as Move to HFO Refrigerants Looms
Passenger car and light-truck makers in the U.S. already have switched to more environmentally friendly hydrofluoroolefin (HFO) refrigerants from...
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How Battery Technology Will Drive Truck Electrification
The past three years have seen a major shift in the perception around electrified commercial vehicles, including trucks, driven by a variety of factors that have come together at this...
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ZF Advancing ADAS, Autonomy with Next-Gen Sensors
Together with its many partners, ZF supplies camera and radar technology and advanced components for both the passenger car and truck markets, the latter being especially suited for the move...
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ACeDrive Consortium Plans More Efficient EV Powertrain
It’s called ACeDrive, which may sound innocuous for an auto-industry project, but the consortium that formed it has announced that it seeks to develop the world’s lightest and most...
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Is DC Fast-Charging Ready for Prime Time?
It’s a trip we’ve done scores of times with barely a thought. From our home near SAE International headquarters in western Pennsylvania to the metro Detroit area is approximately 300 miles (483...
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More sting for the STINGRAY
Instead of heaving decades of small-block V8 expertise out the window, GM Propulsion engineers led by chief engineer Jordan Lee leveraged past success to create a new-for-2020 V8.
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The Road to Automobility
While substantial progress has been made, we are still on the first leg of the road to automobility. The innovation is in its infancy; there are plenty of opportunities for new ideas and breakthroughs.
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FCA Claims North America’s Most-Advanced Driving Simulator
FCA recently launched what it’s billing as the most advanced driving simulator in North America at its Automotive Research and Development Centre (ARDC) in Windsor, Ontario....
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Volvo's Tricks of the EV Trade
Volvo first demonstrated its Integrated Starter Generator (ISG) at the 2001 Frankfurt Motor Show. Replacing the starter-motor and alternator with the ISG allows a gas engine to shut off at will — mainly to...
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2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe
Lindsay Brooke was among the first media to have driven the mid-engine 2020 Stingray. His time in the car (during the North American Car, Truck and Utility of the Year judging) was but 45 minutes. A very invigorating 45 minutes, though.
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2019 VW Beetle Convertible Final Edition
Here it is: 2019 is the swan song for the Beetle. There’s baggage that goes along with Volkswagen’s “new” Beetle soldiering along many years longer than it should have, but this Final Edition...
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Mahle Reveals ‘Fits All’ Modular and Scalable Integrated Hybrid Powertrain
Mahle is developing a complete “fits all, off-the-shelf” modular hybrid-drive propulsion system for a wide range of automakers’ models, designed to cut...
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Is the Camshaft Being Timed Out?
The development of electric vehicle motors, power controls and batteries tend dominate today’s industry’s headlines, but R&D of internal combustion engine technologies in its many forms continues....
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Battery Experts: Solid-State EV Tech Could Be Five Years Out
Solid-state batteries are the “reach” energy-storage technology slated to take electric vehicles (EVs) –and to a lesser extent, other consumer-electronic products – to...
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Chevy Reveals 2020 Corvette Stingray Convertible, C8.R Racer
Reinforcing the Corvette’s long association with astronauts, Chevrolet unveiled the convertible version of its all-new, mid-engine-layout 2020 Corvette Stingray in Cape...
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Bollinger Motors Reveals Second-Gen Class-3 EV Prototypes
Bollinger Motors recently unveiled its second-generation Class-3 EV prototypes. The start-up, based in Ferndale, Michigan, revealed the latest beta of its B1 SUV and B2 truck...
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Toyota Reveals RWD FCEV Mirai, Plug-In RAV4
As part of an electrified stable primed for the 2019 Tokyo and Los Angeles auto shows, Toyota has unveiled its all-new Mirai fuel-cell electric vehicle (FCEV) and the upcoming plug-in hybrid...
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Plotting Valeo’s Route de la Technologie
One of the architects of Valeo Group’s steady evolution as a mobility-tech supplier is Guillaume Devauchelle, who recently spoke by phone with editor-in-chief Lindsay Brooke.
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SAE Survey: Riding in Automated Vehicle Reinforces Positive Perceptions
If there’s one takeaway from SAE International’s groundbreaking Demo Days program that took place in various U.S. cities over 18 months, it’s that everyday...
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Toposens 3D Sonar Seeks Objects Overlooked by Lidar
Alexander Rudoy was spending almost every hour of his free time developing a robotic toy fish that could sense its underwater surroundings. At the time he was studying electromechanical...
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UofM Research Hopes to Eliminate That Queasy Feeling
As concerns mount around how automated-vehicle (AV) passengers will react to increasing degrees of driving detachment, researchers are trying to better understand how and why humans are...
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Far and Away: Remote Drivers Monitor Autonomous Vehicles
Eliminating the safety “watchdogs” who typically ride in autonomous vehicles (AVs) is a big step for technologists and legislators alike. A shuttle at Texas A&M university is...
Articles Manned Systems
The AV Industry Searches for a Near-Term Business Case
In July 2019, an impressive lineup of the world’s leading autonomous vehicle (AV) companies gathered in San Jose for the TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility 2019 conference. Technologists,...
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Mapping Canada — Centimeter by Centimeter
Fully-automated vehicles will only be as smart as the datasets they use to determine their driving pathways. Jakarto Cartographie 3D, a young company based in Montreal, is working on AI-powered,...
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Dial ‘M’ for Mobility: Smartphone as Steering Wheel
For those with a passion for automated-vehicle innovations, late September and early October meant a trip to Twitter and YouTube, which were awash with videos from owners, detractors...
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2020 Volkswagen Passat GTE
A mid-life update and up-spec for Volkswagen’s Europe-built Passat range brings a plug-in hybrid-electric (PHEV) version – a first for the model – for MY2020. Not for the first time (the Phaeton was one...
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A Mirrorless Future? NHTSA Seeks Input on Exterior Cameras
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in early October distributed a notice soliciting industry and public input on whether to allow “camera monitoring...
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Magna Prepared for AV “Marathon”
Swamy Kotagiri is Magna’s chief technology officer and head of the company’s Power & Vision segment. Automotive Engineering contributor Sebastian Blanco spoke with him at the 2019 opening of Magna Electronics’ new manufacturing facility near Holly, MI. Read on for highlights of the conversation.
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New Products
CT Software Solutions Volume Graphics (Charlotte, NC) announced the latest generation of its software solutions for non-destructive quality assurance with industrial computed tomography (CT): Version 3.3 of VGSTUDIO MAX, VGSTUDIO,...
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