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Volvo Leads the Shift to ‘Driver Understanding’
Volvo started teasing out some of the details of its all-electric replacement for the XC90 SUV, dubbed the EX90.
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Hopeful but Closer Scrutiny for SAE Level 4 Automation
As the auto industry and its suppliers, along with technology developers and startups, recalibrate for what appears to be a new and more pragmatic phase of automated-driving...
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Autonomous Transit Bus Nears Its First Year of Operation
Since May 2022, Michigan State University students, faculty and staff have been able to ride within campus boundaries on an autonomous electric bus, one of the largest...
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Williams Debuts New Flexible Platform for BEVs and FCVs
Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) has unveiled its latest product, the EVR electric vehicle platform. It has been designed to provide an accelerated start to a high-performance...
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Keeping Your Silicon Cool
Onboard electronics continue to evolve rapidly. Components are smaller. Systems are more complex. The sophisticated electronics components that make up modern vehicles require precision heat dissipation for...
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Unzipping the Future of Sustainable Electronics
Electronic-systems designers are facing a serious reckoning: How to significantly reduce the environmental impact of more and more electronic content in new vehicles?
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Closing the Loop on EV Battery Recycling
Development of a robust electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling industry has moved from a net-positive sideline to a necessity as automakers, and their suppliers, transition away from internal...
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Engineering Sustainability
Watching a junked school bus being fed into a mammoth hammer mill, which loudly pummeled the bus into fragments of metal, rubber, and plastic, was a sight I’ll never forget. I was visiting Huron Valley...
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Good News and Bad News for Auto Suppliers in 2023
The Fall season brings the annual rite of passage for the industry — setting budgets for the next calendar year. The balance of building revenue forecasts driven by vehicle demand,...
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Ford Puts More ‘Super’ into the All-New 2023 Super Duty
Customer woes had the full attention of the teams developing Ford’s 2023 Super Duty. But when the all-new truck reached the testing phase, another human stressor surfaced....
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Battery Show 2022: Wireless EV Charging, Scaling Gigafactories
At September’s North American stop of The Battery Show 2022 in Novi, Michigan, thousands of attendees crammed into the Suburban Collection Showplace exhibition center to...
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Allison’s Now Open for Hydrogen Testing
With the atomic number 1, hydrogen is the lightest element in the Periodic Table. However, its rapidly becoming a heavyweight for the future of mobility. Development of hydrogen fuel cell...
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Brembo’s Sensify Aims to Revolutionize Braking
SAE Media recently participated with Brembo in a demonstration of the company’s new braking technology on the skid pad at the Michelin Laurens Proving Grounds in Mountville, South...
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BrightDrop Goes Grocery Shopping
BrightDrop, the business unit of General Motors developing and deploying electrified vehicles and tools targeting so-called “last-mile” commercial services, announced it has teamed with grocery giant...
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COMVEC 2022: Electrification Is the Future for Defense Vehicles
The M1 Abrams main battle tank developed for the U.S. Army in the late 1970s remains the best tank in the world, according to Allison Transmission’s VP of Defense...
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Hyundai’s ‘Edgy’ New Ideas for Safety Testing
In June 2022, Hyundai Motor America broke ground for its Safety Test and Investigation Laboratory (STIL), an industry-unique testing facility dedicated to root-cause crash...
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Eaton Debuts All-In-One Power Distribution for EVs
Destruction avoidance is one of the chief duties of Eaton’s battery disconnect unit (BDU) for light-duty passenger EVs. “A short circuit event in a typical battery electric vehicle...
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NAIAS 2022: Seventh-Generation of Ford Mustang Is Highest Performer Yet
The exterior visuals still emphasize a long hood and a short deck, but the V8-powered 2024 Mustang GT’s mammoth air intakes are a telltale that things have...
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Tula’s DMD Promises Gains in EV Efficiency
Nestled in San Jose, California just south of the San Francisco Bay, the small but mighty team at Tula Technologies continues to develop advancements for optimizing the efficiency of ICE and...
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Jeep Springs Its First BEVs
Four all-new, battery-electric models will spearhead Jeep’s plan to electrify 100% of its product lineup by 2025, the Stellantis brand announced on Sept. 7. The quartet of BEVs includes the 4-door Jeep...
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Electric-Vehicle Legislation in California – Third Time the Charm?
The official name is the “Advanced Clean Cars II” ruling and it effectively marks California’s third attempt to mandate the sale of electric vehicles in the...
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New Chemistry Aims to Slash Fuel-Cell PGM Costs by 50%
Hydrogen fuel cells are steadily proving to be a competitive zero-emissions solution for powering heavy trucks, railway locomotives and ships, as well as for various...
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The Battle over EV Value-Add Has Begun
A critical industry transition is underway that some already are viewing as an impending battle. At stake is supplier value-add share versus that of OEMs as light-vehicle propulsion formats shift...
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Hyundai Breaks Ground for Safety Test and Investigation Lab
Hyundai Motor America is creating an industry-unique testing zone to address root cause crash investigations and electric vehicle/future product analysis activities at its...
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2022 Honda Civic Hatchback Enjoys Premium Assembly, Weight-Cutting Measures
As a veteran manufacturing engineer, Jill Fuel was an ideal choice for the project leader for the production launch of Honda’s 2022 Civic Hatchback at Honda's...
News Test & Measurement
Chattanooga Power Haus
Volkswagen is rapidly gaining on General Motors, Ford and Tesla in terms of overall EV development and production assets in North America, industry analysts tell SAE Media. With the recent launch of its $22...
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From Emissions Tech to EV Electronics
A recent visit to Eberspaecher’s North American engineering and manufacturing complex reveals how a global Tier-1 rooted in combustion-engine technology is profitably navigating the transition to...
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Ford Starts the Hard Work of EV Battery, Raw Materials Security
Along with painful jobs news related to its accelerated shift to EVs, Ford Motor Co. had what those scrutinizing electrification trends might deem as positive message when...
Road Ready Propulsion
Dodge Debuts Charger Daytona SRT Concept Electric Musclecar
If it looks like a Dodge, sounds like a Dodge, and drives like a Dodge, it must be a Dodge. That “must-be” vision has been the perpetual mantra behind the development of a...
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