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2019 World Traffic Safety Symposium Focuses on AV Regulation
How should automated vehicles (AV) avoid erroneous traffic tickets? How can highway work zones be standardized to enable safe AV use? Are bridges structurally sound enough to...
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Ford Amped for New Phase of Hybrid-Electric Offensive
With the persistent auto-industry question of how soon battery electric vehicles will become mainstream options, Ford is preparing to widely deploy its fourth-generation hybrid-electric...
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Automated Vehicles Not an 'If' but a 'When'
The automotive industry once questioned whether electric motors would replace the internal combustion engine (ICE) as the primary powertrain option for consumers. Today, the industry is facing a...
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NASA Highlights Material and Coating Technology Ready for Commercial Applications
Innovations in materials and coatings have enabled countless NASA missions since the agency’s inception. The research that goes into developing these...
Technology Report Energy
Engine Researchers: 50% Gasoline-Engine Efficiency in Sight
Speaking at the SAE High-Efficiency IC Engine Symposium preceding this week’s WCX19 conference in Detroit, the lead researcher for a long-running, Delphi Technologies-directed...
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Europe’s Blockchain-Based Smart E-Mobility Challenge Will Conclude This May in Germany
To advance development of Internet of things (IoT) mobility solutions like cryptography, distributed ledger technology (DLT) – also known as...
Technology Report Mechanical & Fluid Systems
EMBATT Technology Could Double the Driving Range of EVs
An in-development chassis-integrated sandwich structure of solid electrolytes is projected to deliver all-electric driving ranges that far out-distance today’s typical 200-mile (320...
Articles Materials
Steel Stands Tall
In 2014, just before Ford shook the industry with the introduction of its aluminum-intensive F-150, Ducker Worldwide released a study for the aluminum industry. The report predicted that the light metal would dominate the North American light-truck segment in the next new-model development cycle.
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Novelis Creates First Aluminum Sheet Battery Enclosure for Mass Electric Vehicle Production
Battery weight and power density is a major design consideration when it comes to electric and hybrid-electric vehicles. To reduce platform weight...
Technology Report Propulsion
Why JLR Is Giving Its Newest Range Rover Straight-6 Power
The market may have been surprised by Jaguar Land Rover’s decision to offer the latest Range Rover with an I-6 gasoline engine, but it’s been on the company’s development list...
Technology Report Power
AAA Studies Thermal Effects on EV Range
It’s been a tough winter in much of the U.S. When the Midwest hasn’t been dealing with a Polar Vortex it been smacked by a “bombogenesis.” But even normally temperate seasonal regions like...
News Software
Honda Brings ‘Totalled’ SUV to Auto Show Floor to Highlight Latest Advances in Crash-Safety Engineering
Most of the gleaming product gracing auto shows has been meticulously prepared for public display. In an unusual move, Honda...
News Design
Automated Vehicle Safety Series Addresses Design, Testing, Verification, and Validation
Safety is ranked as the number one concern for the acceptance and adoption of automated vehicles, commonly referred to as “self-driving cars.” The...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Lincoln Corsair Leverages Global Architecture to Differentiate Latest C-Segment Luxury SUV
The all-new 2020 Lincoln Corsair that debuted at the New York Auto Show last week brings distinct styling that dovetails nicely with its Nautilus...
News Propulsion
2019 New York Auto Show Wrap Up
The New York International Auto Show (NYIAS) rolled into the Javits Convention Center on Manhattan’s west side right after April’s tax day, and the 2019 version saw the industry well represented, with...
What We’re Driving Test & Measurement
2020 Range Rover Evoque
It was an unusual beginning to a test drive: navigating a narrow, winding gravel path in the grounds of an English castle with the windshield blacked out and only an image of two front wheels and a couple of colored...
News Materials
Goodfellow Corporation Offers Graphene Variant Produced Through a New “Metal-Free” Methane Process
Coraopolis, Pennsylvania-based Goodfellow Corporation (Goodfellow) is taking graphene and going “green,” offering an ultra-pure,...
News Power
New Platform, Chic Sheetmetal for Tech-Centric 2020 Range Rover Evoque
Hanging nose down in a premium compact SUV at the summit of what looks like a near-vertical cliff face—and being told to keep feet off the pedals and mind on the...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
WCX 2019: IAMTS Association Will Establish Standardization and Testing for Connected Vehicles
In pursuit of developing and growing an international portfolio of advanced mobility testbeds that meet the highest quality implementation and...
News Regulations/Standards
2019 HEICE Symposium Kicks off Week of Valuable Engineering Insights
The 2019 SAE High Efficiency Internal Combustion Engine (HEICE) Symposium kicked off a week’s worth of SAE World Congress events in Detroit on Sunday, April 7. Now in...
News Test & Measurement
“The Grid” Promises to Be the Most Advanced Electric Propulsion Laboratory in the Aerospace Industry
Collins Aerospace, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation (UTC), has laid out its plans for what is calling “The Grid” –...
News Unmanned Systems
Engineers Balance Today’s Programs with Tomorrow’s Mobility Future
Engineers are seeing the automotive industry pivot to advanced mobility. It’s a changing landscape with new lifeblood for the internal combustion engine and a...
News Electronics & Computers
Nano Dimension Creates the First Printed Circuit Boards with Side-Mounted Features
Nano Dimension Ltd., an additive electronics provider based in Ness Ziona, Israel, has developed the world’s first side-mounting technology for printed...
Q&A Automotive
Engineering Volvo’s Next Big Leap
Henrik Green, SVP of research & development, Volvo, is pleased with his company’s progress in both the electrification and automated-driving areas. He spoke with Editor-in-Chief Lindsay Brooke on Volvo’s technology trajectory.
Articles Transportation
Transforming ZF
ZF’s expertise in the hardware and software sides, and in systems integration, "should enable it to keep a competitive advantage."
Technology Report Manufacturing & Prototyping
VW's MEB Platform: A Modularity Enabler
Volkswagen’s MEB, an in-development chassis designed strictly for electric propulsion, enables a modular battery layout that can provide a Volkswagen Group electric vehicle (EV) with an estimated...
Technology Report Power
GKN Demos ETwinster, World’s-First 2-Speed Torque-Vectoring BEV Transmission
GKN Automotive has unveiled what it claims is the world’s first 2-speed, torque-vectoring transmission for battery electric vehicles (BEVs). Featured on...
News Energy
Powering Back to the Future
Credit Leonardo DaVinci for creating what many historians believe was the first depiction of a self-powered vehicle. It was powered by springs. And in the centuries since then, engineers have found increasingly...
News Connectivity
2019 Nissan Leaf plus Nets Extended EV Range
The 2019 Leaf Plus has a longer driving range and provides quicker acceleration than its platform-sharing counterpart, the second-generation Leaf, thanks to a higher-output motor and additional...
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A New Approach to Manufacturing Machine Connectivity for the Air Force
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