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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.
Articles Energy
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.
Briefs Energy
Developing High-Energy, Stable All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries Using Aluminum-Based Anodes and High-Nickel Cathodes
Researchers from Nanjing University, led by Professor Ping He and Professor Shaochun Tang, have published a comprehensive study in Nano-Micro Letters on the development of high-energy, stable all-solid-state lithium batteries using aluminum-based anodes and high-nickel cathodes. Read on to learn more about it.
Articles Materials
JCB Heads to the Front of the Line
JCB recently announced that it has secured a contract to provide 4CX backhoe loaders to the United States Marine Corps. According to JCB, the agreement includes not only machines but also attachments...
Technical Innovation Materials
Grease Innovation Adapts to Meet New Demands of Commercial and Off-Highway Equipment
In the commercial and off-highway sectors, equipment reliability isn’t just a maintenance target but a business imperative. Whether it’s a long-haul...
Original Equipment Design
ZM Trucks Starts Production in Fontana, California
In late August, ZM Trucks celebrated the grand opening of its U.S. headquarters and assembly facility in Fontana, California. SAE Media was in attendance for the opening ceremony, which included the U.S. debut of the ZM8 Class 4/5 truck. Read on to learn all about it.
Briefs Manned Systems
U.S. Army Tests Innovative Autonomous Tactical Vehicle Prototype
In an effort to cut costs and improve supply delivery efficiency, the U.S. Army assessed the Overland AI ULTRA Fully Autonomous Tactical Vehicle prototype during exercise Agile Spirit 25 at the Combat Training Center, Vaziani Training Area, Georgia, in July. Read on to learn more about it.
Briefs AR/AI
Researchers Discover New Materials That Could Enhance Fighter Jet Efficiency
Read on to learn more about a pioneering study that sets the stage for a new era in functional alloy design — faster, cheaper, and smarter.
Briefs Semiconductors & ICs
Could Metasurfaces Be The Next Quantum Information Processors?
Optics researchers in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have created specially designed metasurfaces — flat devices etched with nanoscale light-manipulating patterns — to act as ultra-thin upgrades for quantum-optical chips and setups. Read on to learn more.
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Built-In Smart Sensors Can Prevent Lithium-Ion Battery Fires Before They Start
New smart sensors can help detect dangerous internal failures in lithium-ion batteries before they escalate into fires or explosions, say researchers from the University of Surrey. Read on to learn more.
Briefs Green Design & Manufacturing
A Cleaner, Scalable Process to Recycle Lithium-Ion Batteries
In a major step forward for sustainable energy technology, researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, led by Professor Yan Wang, William B. Smith Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, have developed a new, scalable method to recycle lithium-ion batteries in a way that is both efficient and environmentally friendly. Read on to learn more.
Briefs Materials
New AI Tool Predicts Lithium Metal Anode Failures from Just Two Early Cycles
In a groundbreaking study, researchers at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School and the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, have developed a predictive model that uses electrochemical data from the initial cycles of LMBs to forecast potential failures. Read on to learn more.
Briefs Materials
Thick Electrodes’ Chemistry Matters More Than Structure for Battery Performance
A team of Rice University researchers led by materials scientist Ming Tang showed that even if the materials used in thick battery electrodes have nearly identical structures, their internal chemistry impacts energy flow — and, hence, performance — differently. This finding goes against conventional wisdom in the field. Read on to learn more.
Briefs Energy
AI Breakthrough Unlocks ‘New’ Materials to Replace Lithium-Ion Batteries
In research published in Cell Reports Physical Science, an NJIT team successfully applied generative AI techniques to rapidly discover new porous materials capable of revolutionizing multivalent-ion batteries. Read on to learn more.
Briefs Energy
Eco-Friendly Upcycling: Turning Spent Batteries into High-Voltage Energy Storage Systems
A research team led by Dr. Yosep Han at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources has successfully developed an eco-friendly electrochemical process to upcycle lithium manganese oxide, a common cathode material in spent lithium-ion batteries. Read on to learn more.
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
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...
Technology Report Manufacturing & Prototyping
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...
News Connectivity
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...
Road Ready Design
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...
Q&A Manufacturing & Prototyping
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...
Q&A Energy
Q&A: AVL Addresses Path to Greater Hybridization
The powertrain landscape of the future is sure to be a mix that includes clean diesel engines and other ICE options running alternative fuels. Zero-emissions technology such as...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Monarch Unveils AI-Powered Autonomous Platform
Before Monarch existed in 2015, its co-founders CTO Zachary Omohundro and CEO Praveen Penmetsa traveled to India to assemble two electric and connected tractors they had shipped over in crates. Jump ahead 10 years, and Omohundro and Penmetsa are unveiling something new to the market. The MonarchOne AI platform brings autonomy to tractors, but also other farming and construction equipment. Read on to learn more.
Articles Automotive
Rethinking Vehicle Controls for On- and Off-Highway Applications
From long-haul Class 8 trucks navigating cross-country routes to articulated dump trucks operating deep in a mining pit, the need for smarter, more reliable and more efficient control systems has never been more critical. Read on to learn how Eaton is remedying this.
Articles Transportation
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.
Technical Innovation Energy
The Economics of Lightweighting in Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Like those in many other industries, truck and off-highway vehicle manufacturers face the challenge of producing quality components and maintaining productive processes while also...
Technology Report Manufacturing & Prototyping
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.
News Connectivity
Lifelike Simulation Accelerates Middle-Mile Autonomous Trucking
Gatik Arena is a next-generation simulation platform designed to accelerate the development and validation of autonomous vehicle (AV) systems. Gatik, which targets autonomous...
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.
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
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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