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Jaguar's 2018 E-Pace Shares Land Rover Bones
Jaguar revealed its all-new compact, 5-seat SUV on 13 July in London. The 2018 E-Pace joins its larger F-Pace cousin to take the company further into SUV territory. And it is also the first...
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Hydrodynamic Drag Force Measurement of a Functionalized Surface Exhibiting Superhydrophobic Properties
With superhydrophobic properties being extended to a variety of metallic substrates through the process of ablation due to femto-second...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
High-Power Broadband Multispectral Source on a Hybrid Silicon Chip
For applications in manufacturing, remote sensing, medicine, military, and fundamental science, an ideal laser would have high output power and a diffraction-limited beam. The...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) Suppression and Long Delivery Fibers at the Multikilowatt Level with Chirped Seed Lasers
One obstacle in the scaling of high-power fiber lasers arises because of nonlinear effects (e.g., stimulated...
Briefs Materials
Erbium Doped GaN Lasers by Optical Pumping
The main objective of this research was to construct an optical pump system that would allow the study of Er:GaN materials under 980 nm resonant excitation to be carried out. The results obtained from...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
New Class of Excimer-Pumped Atomic Lasers (XPALS)
The focus of this research program was the investigation of XPAL properties, and new pumping schemes, as well as modeling, and measuring critical photoionization and excited state-excited state...
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Oil Change Valve
Global Sales Group (Redmond, WA) offers a new and improved EZ Oil Drain Valve with optional hose connectors that can replace an existing drain plug for fast, clean and easy oil changes. According to the company, there is no...
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Beleaguered Diesel Could Use a Break—or a Breakthrough
Start talking car-business “big-picture” with engineers and once you hash out autonomy for the thousandth time, the discussion invariably comes to diesel. Is diesel...
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GKN Using Modular Control Algorithms for Added Systems’ Integration
At its Lohmar, Germany, R&D facility, GKN Driveline is creating modular control algorithms for new applications including integration of drivetrain software into a...
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Tenneco Readies New Semi-Active Digital Suspension for 2020
One enduring challenge of work-truck engineering is how to make the vehicles ride and drive comfortably when unloaded without diminishing their vital hauling and towing...
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Cummins Reveals All-Electric Heavy-Duty Truck—just Ahead of Tesla
Two months after chairman and CEO Tom Linebarger detailed Cummins’ plans to transition from a diesel engine maker to a “power technology” provider (read:...
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Automated Guided Vehicle Platform
Agile1500 Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) platform from Comau (Turin, Italy) features the flexibility to be deployed across a wide range of manufacturing and non-manufacturing scenarios. According to Comau, it...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
New Vision @ Gentex
On first glance, it appears to be a passive rectangle of reflective glass. But the full-display mirror, or FDM as its maker Gentex Corp. calls it, comes alive when you start the vehicle. In the Cadillac CT6, XT5 and...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
BorgWarner Prepares Manual Gearchange for ADAS Vehicles
Electrification was supposed to spell death for the manual transmission. The same has been said for manuals and automated driving systems. But BorgWarner is in the final stages of...
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Kickoff to Begin Testing Program to Validate SAE J2954 Wireless Charging Recommended Practice
SAE International Ground Vehicle Standards activity is recruiting industry participants for a Cooperative Research Project (CRP) for Safe and...
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Vehicle Sound-Generating System
Bruël & Kjær’s (Duluth, GA) VSound Type 3115 vehicle sound-generating system—from both interior and exterior perspectives—enables virtual NVH prototype evaluation in the context of a real vehicle,...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
High-Speed Camera
Fastec Imaging’s (San Diego, CA) IL5 5MP high-speed camera enables users to record high-speed events for airbag and automotive component testing, troubleshooting, and safety using slow motion replay. The Fastec IL5 offers...
News Aerospace
High-Strength Aluminum Alloys
The 6000-series alloys help automakers meet growing demand for lighter-weight vehicles.
Supplier Eye
Transformation Is Happening—will You Be an Active Participant or a Passive Bystander?
Over the past several months, there has been increased visibility to the march of electrified powertrains (still using an internal-combustion engine)...
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For Future Vehicles, Communication Equals Trust
It’s said that communication is the key to trust. Between us humans, we need to honestly communicate our intentions to build trust. But in any relationship, communicating can be a complex...
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New 90-Degree Turbo V6 Leads Audi's Hybridization Blitz
Audi’s all-new 3.0-L turbocharged gasoline V6, rated at 354 hp and 369 lb·ft (264 kW and 500 N·m, respectively) debuted recently in the 2018 SQ5 crossover. The V6 is the first...
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Positioning for Hybrid Growth
Five years ago, few predicted the high level of fragmentation in powertrains, drivelines and fuels that exists in 2017. Nearly everyone now agrees, however, that Hybridization of all types is essential to...
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Ford Pumps Powertrains for 2018 F-150
It’s tough at the moment to sell a car to a U.S. customer, so wily automakers—or those at a fortuitous place in their product cycles—are doubling down on trucks and crossovers. Regardless of that,...
News Electronics & Computers
1200-V Discrete IGBT
Infineon Technologies AG (Munich, Germany) has expanded its 1200-V discrete IGBT product portfolio by offering up to 75 A. The devices are co-packed with a full-rated diode in a TO-247PLUS package. The new TO-247PLUS 3-pin...
News Unmanned Systems
2018 Subaru Crosstrek Moves to New Stiffer Global Platform
To create the 2018 Crosstrek, FHI engineers increased the wheelbase.
News RF & Microwave Electronics
U of M-Dearborn Students Engineer New Autonomous Shuttle System
Evolving to stay relevant in the fast-changing Engineering world is a challenge faced by every institution of higher learning. In 2013, educators at the University of...
Product Briefs Aerospace
Nickel-PTFE-Nanodiamond Coatings
Nanodiamond material specialist Carbodeon (Helsinki, Finland) has worked with metal finishing specialist CCT Plating (Stuttgart, Germany) to develop a new electroless nickel polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and...
Product Briefs Electronics & Computers
Engine Ion Sensor
Detroit Engineered Products (DEP) Inc. (Troy, MI) offers a commercial prototype of an Engine Ion Sensor that increases fuel economy, lowers hazardous emissions and can enable multiple fuel types. According to the company, the...
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