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British HFQ Process May Enhance Aluminum’s High-Volume Future
With this year’s end stage of a major collaborative R&D project, the longstanding competition between steel and aluminum for high-volume vehicle production is set to...
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Tula Turns Its Tech Toward EV Motor Control
San Jose-based Tula Technology is best known for its innovative Dynamic Skip Fire technology. Editor-in-chief Lindsay Brooke caught up with Scott Bailey, the company’s president and CEO, to find out. Read on for highlights of their conversation.
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The Inside Story on Thermal Management
TLX Technologies designs and manufactures custom electro-mechanical solenoid products for the automotive industry. In this Q&A piece, Travis Mueller, TLX Design Engineer, discusses the importance of thermal management in today’s vehicle designs.
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SAE Symposium Covers New Approaches in Thermal Management
Vehicle thermal management, once almost exclusively about safely rejecting powertrain heat, continues to evolve to dealing with two extremes in operation of battery electric...
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Quadricycle AV Pod Pops Open in London
Mobility “pods” regularly pop up in the automated-driving universe and the latest is a quadricycle prototype called MOTIV, claimed by its creators to “break the mold for future mobility...
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CES 2020: Toyota to Build a City of the Future
There’s hardly a region on Earth that Toyota doesn’t reach. At the 2020 CES conference, the company announced a visionary project of similar scope, saying it intends to build a...
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Continental's Lidar in a Flash
A precise three-dimensional profile of a vehicle’s surroundings is a fundamental prerequisite for automated driving. A new high-resolution 3D flash lidar (HFL) sensor developed for use at close range – 50...
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Xtrac Readies E-Tech for Rallycross World Championship
For any motorsport engineering supplier tempted to carry its highly specialized expertise along the winding – often hazardous – road to series cars, the journey can be fraught with...
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GM Deploying Electricals of the Future
General Motors recently offered media a deeper look at the company’s all-new vehicle electrical architecture that was first confirmed in mid-2019, saying the vehicle-wide electrical system is...
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ZwickRoell Rallies for EV Battery Testing
A lightweight, higher-capacity lithium-ion or Li-blended battery could fast-track the demand for electric vehicles (EVs) by increasing the driving range, but progress could be easily sidetracked...
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CES 2020: Cartica AI’s Simpler Solution for Autonomous Vision
The wide rollout of autonomous vehicles (AVs) will require advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and significant computing horsepower. The efficiency and effectiveness of the...
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Autonomy’s ‘Pirouetting’ Future
Designing and engineering a 360-degree steering capability for a production electric autonomous road vehicle’s four wheels is no mean achievement. But Protean Electric also combines this pirouetting capability with an in-wheel electric motor, “innovative” suspension and pneumatic ride height control.
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Volvo’s Polestar Powerhouse Plug-In Hybrid
You don’t get a second chance to make a first impression. That’s why Polestar, Volvo’s new electric performance subsidiary, used its first vehicle as a rolling showcase of the brand’s...
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‘Laxatives’ May Ease Challenge of Lithium-Ion Alternative
The R&D dimension of the automotive industry often reveals novel solutions and cross-linking between materials, but a team of international scientists has come up with...
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SAE Publishes On-Route Mechanized Conductive EV Charging Systems Recommended Practices
SAE International published SAE J-3105 Electric Vehicle Power Transfer System Using Conductive Automated Connection Devices Recommended Practice in...
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What We’re Driving: 2020 Range Rover Sport HST
JLR (Jaguar Land Rover) goes straight to the point: it's new inline six-cylinder gasoline engine is “more responsive and better balanced” than a V6, the company said. That’s what...
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CES 2020: Mercedes VISION AVTR Concept a Beacon for Sustainability
At the keynote for the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Mercedes-Benz unveiled its VISION AVTR concept vehicle, which represents a far-forward look at the...
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Proving Grounds Are the Hush-Hush Heroes of the Latest Automotive Test Technology
The world’s independent vehicle test-track operators often are the unsung heroes of new-vehicle development. They work in an atmosphere of secrecy that...
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Does EV Material Testing Need to Get Physical?
As the CEO of the ZwickRoell Group, Dr. Jan Stefan Roell oversees a multi-industry, materials-testing business. The family-owned company’s history of invention includes the first hydraulic...
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New IAAPS Powertrain R&D Center to Accelerate Development of Propulsion Systems
The auto industry needs new areas of expertise, new development tools, and new ways of facilitating collaboration and innovation to keep pace with technologies...
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Autonomy Already Influencing Vehicle Interior Design
Just about everyone’s seen a recent rendering of future vehicle interiors, but high-function driver assistance, automated driving and mobility as a service (MaaS) are new dimensions...
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Getting a Grip on EV Fasteners
It may not get much R&D fanfare, but fastenings and their coatings will play an essential engineering role in electrified vehicles (EVs). There is an increasing demand from the auto industry for...
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New GM, LG Chem Joint Venture to Build EV Battery Plant in U.S.
General Motors and longtime battery partner LG Chem announced the companies are forming an equally-owned joint-venture (JV) company to mass-produce lithium-ion batteries for...
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Mahle and Partners Develop Super-Efficient Engine for Stationary Power
Mahle Powertrain, with partners Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Kohler Co., Louthan Engineering and Intellichoice Energy, has developed a prototype single-cylinder...
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Commercial-Vehicle Battery Producer Sets up in U.S. as Electrification Takes Hold
Projecting the market for full-electric and hybrid-electric commercial vehicles will continue to expand, Germany-based lithium-ion battery specialist Akasol...
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EV Startup Rivian Gets More Funding from Ford, Amazon
Rivian, the startup electric vehicle (EV) developer focusing on pickup trucks, SUVs and commercial delivery vehicles, announced on Dec. 23 that it completed a new $1.3-billion round of...
Articles Energy
Chevy Tweaks 2020 Bolt’s Battery Chemistry to Add Range
In late 2016, the Chevrolet Bolt became a breakthrough vehicle for long-range EV affordability. At the time, no other electric car came close to offering the Bolt’s 238 mi (383...
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Plotting Valeo’s Route de la Technologie
One of the architects of Valeo Group’s steady evolution as a mobility-tech supplier is Guillaume Devauchelle, who recently spoke by phone with editor-in-chief Lindsay Brooke.
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Is DC Fast-Charging Ready for Prime Time?
It’s a trip we’ve done scores of times with barely a thought. From our home near SAE International headquarters in western Pennsylvania to the metro Detroit area is approximately 300 miles (483...
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