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Hyundai’s Fuel-Cell Dreams Remain Xcient
Hyundai’s fuel-cell truck fleet is growing. The company is about to bring a fleet of hydrogen-powered 6x4 Xcient Fuel Cell Class 8 tractors to the U.S. It displayed one of the large cabs at this...
Articles Energy
Engineering at the New NVH Frontier
The complex science of analyzing and abating noise, vibration, and harshness has entered a “new frontier” as the industry transitions to electrified vehicles, experts in the NVH field tell SAE Media....
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The Gas Station Paradigm for EV Charging
One evening earlier this year, I found myself at a convenience-store gas station with eight pumps and one EV fast-charger. I’d been vectored there by the charge provider’s phone app. As I exited...
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Data-Mining the Cabin for UX, Occupant Safety
Mitsubishi Electric is using the data collected by driver-monitoring and various in-cabin sensors to help improve future vehicle safety, SAE Media recently learned at the supplier’s...
Road Ready Propulsion
Lincoln Unveils Redesigned 2024 Nautilus SUV
With aviation-inspired design elements, new powertrains and a larger footprint, Lincoln’s redesigned 2024 Navigator comes to showrooms early in 2024 to compete in the luxury midsize SUV...
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Defrosting Tech Saves EV Battery Energy
Turning on the heater in most EVs can be a range-killing decision due to the power draw of the vehicle’s HVAC. But while cold feet reluctantly is a better option than not arriving at your...
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2025 Ram 1500 REV Driving Range Would Jump to Head of Class
Stellantis’ Ram brand introduced more details about the 2025 Ram 1500 REV electric pickup at the New York International Auto Show in early April, and one option is an enormous...
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WCX 2023: Battery Leaders Say Manufacturing Prowess Needs to Advance
Batteries are an incredibly complex subject, so it’s not surprising that in a panel at SAE’s WCX 2023 conference in April titled “Battery: Today, 2030 and...
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WCX 2023: Sorting out EV Public Charging in the U.S.
The still-teething U.S. electric vehicle charging infrastructure is wrestling with significant issues as it builds out. Spotty operability of EV public charging stands is in the...
Editorial Energy
Engineering the ‘Sustainability Thing’
Sustainable and sustainability are words that are fast becoming industry vernacular. They’re woven into executive speeches, press releases, marketing, and engineers’ messaging.
Supplier Eye Automotive
The Four Strategic Choices Facing Suppliers
Suppliers in the BEV-negative (adversely affected by battery electric propulsion) sectors essentially have four strategic choices going forward. Find out what they are.
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Finding Solutions for Sustainable Mobility
SAE International has established a new, dedicated practice aimed at helping the transportation industry become truly sustainable, as OEMs and suppliers in automotive, aerospace and commercial vehicles work to meet net-zero climate goals.
Articles Manned Systems
E-Fueling for the Future
Synthetic and bio-based liquid “e-fuels” have in various forms enjoyed fits and starts of industry attention and R&D investment in recent years, but got the most significant boost ever in March 2023 when a...
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Europe’s Dust Buster
In a proposal submitted in November of 2022, the European Commission detailed its new Euro 7 vehicle emissions standard, which is widely expected to be approved by the European Parliament and Council and begin...
Articles Energy
Honda’s Hydrogen Progress
Is the long-promised “hydrogen economy” still 15 years away, as it reportedly has been for… more than 15 years? Or is it just around the corner? SAE Media traveled to Honda’s U.S. campus in Torrance,...
Articles Energy
Fuels to Transition the Global Legacy Fleet
Put the promise of mass vehicle electrification and its myriad challenges aside for a moment, and consider: What if most IC-engine vehicle owners don’t switch to EVs as the industry and...
Road Ready Power
Dodge Ready with a Sting for the Compact-SUV Market
If you accept that the oddball and odd-sized Journey never was a legit rival for the likes of the Honda CR-V, Toyota RAV4 and Ford Escape — and it wasn’t — Stellantis’ Dodge brand...
Technology Report Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Multimatic ‘Legs’ for Ferrari’s New Thoroughbred
The Ferrari Purosangue scurries up the snowbound pitches of Italy’s Monte Bondone, the Alpine peak whose auto-hillclimb exploits date to 1925. Ferrari’s first “SUV” — really,...
News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Scaling the Solid-State Battery FEST
Start-up battery developer Factorial Energy’s workforce of engineers, chemists and other technology specialists has topped 100 with recent hirings in the Asia-Pacific region. A pilot manufacturing...
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Handicapping the ‘Race Toward Zero’
Kelly Senecal did not set out to champion the multi-modal approach to vehicle carbon reduction. He’s the CEO of Covergent Science, a company specializing in computational fluid dynamics. A...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Decarbonizing the EV Battery Supply Chain
A report from consultants at McKinsey & Co. strikes an optimistic tone that major reductions in carbon emissions from the electric vehicle battery supply chain can be attained in the next five...
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Toyota Launches Longer-Range 2023 Prius Prime
Toyota’s rollout of the 2023 Prius is a two-phase affair. Although the company didn’t say it outright, the launch seems targeted to address two distinct Prius customers. Those who just want...
Articles Energy
Chamber Made to Protect EV Batteries
Ingress protection testing against solid particulates, such as dust, is a crucial part of battery manufacturing. If a battery is not designed to keep dust out, small particles can infiltrate and wreak...
Editorial Power
Sunset for the American V8
Technologies transition from dominance to nearly dead at different speeds and for various reasons. That’s particularly true for motive power. Pistons, cams and valves are giving way to anodes, cathodes and...
Q&A Transportation
Making H2 Fuel Cells Happen
Over a 23-year career Rob Del Core has led more than 20 programs related to zero-emissions vehicles and subsystems, most of them related to developing hydrogen fuel-cell power, at companies including Hyzon...
Articles Power
Rethinking the Grid for EVs
The clock is ticking for the automotive industry to meet looming “greener” energy deadlines, which will come into effect at the end of the decade. Achieving widescale adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and...
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Spelling Ford with an ‘E’
One year ago, Ford Motor Co. kicked off a new era in its long history when it bifurcated into two strategically interdependent auto businesses. Ford Blue, the “traditional” business, is responsible for the...
Technology Report Energy
Elon Musk Discusses Tesla’s Future
Tesla’s 2023 Investor Day on March 1 at the company’s Austin, Texas, Gigafactory was short on new-product announcements but long on how the EV automaker will continue to refine its vehicles,...
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Mercedes-Benz Architecting Its Own Operating System
Mercedes-Benz revealed in late February that it is developing its own computer operating system, dubbed MB.OS, which it said will be standardized across the company’s entire model...
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