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Altair Honors Weight-Saving Innovations
Sustainable and stylish: two words not commonly paired but that aptly apply to this year’s Altair Enlighten Award winner for Sustainable Product – Vehicle, the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E. The...
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Schaeffler Builds an E-Motor Powerhouse
The vehicle-electrification trend has caused the industry’s “traditional” suppliers to bring new strategies, tactics and investment to meet a growing tide of EV development programs. Some...
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Preparing for the New, Faster EV Product Cadence
BEV platforms are already driving a new product-development and launch cadence that will alter future industry dynamics and commercial expectations.
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SAE and ISO Publish Joint Automotive Cybersecurity Standard
The new standard that will help ensure that cybersecurity is entwined throughout the entire product lifecycle.
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The Inside Story on Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Qualcomm Technologies leverages its mobile, compute and systems engineering experience to deliver next-gen automotive technologies for telematics, digital cockpit, C-V2X, ADAS and Car-to-Cloud...
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Designing and Assessing Vehicle Safety Functions with a Use Case Approach
The required capabilities of a vehicle’s systems and components will vary depending on the scenarios and use cases in which they are expected to safely operate. This...
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Lincoln Unveils Tech-Refreshed 2022 Navigator
Lincoln has revealed a refreshed 2022 Navigator that sees no drivetrain or electrification upgrades, but gains a smattering of thoughtful technology, including a hands-free advanced...
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Softing Supports a Standardized Diagnostic Protocol
On-board diagnostics (OBD) is required to monitor emissions-related components such as heavy-duty diesel engines and their emissions control systems. Though the use of electric drives is...
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Toyota R&D Ups Its Additive Manufacturing Game
Toyota Motor North America Research & Development (TMNA R&D) in York Township, Michigan, is Toyota’s largest R&D center outside of Japan. The team there performs engineering...
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Sony Jumps into AV Sensors, Software
The growing prominence of sensor-based driving systems is creating opportunities for electronics companies to enter the auto industry. After years of speculation about Apple launching an electric...
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Radiated Emissions Testing Gathers Bandwidth
In a non-descript business park in Auburn Hills, Michigan, Bureau Veritas is conducting tests to help prevent electronic havoc. With today’s vehicles chock full of wired and wireless devices...
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Making the Strategic Move into AV Testing
Traditional powertrain testing can be full of challenges. But it doesn’t compare to the often-bizarre edge cases that confront those testing automated-vehicle systems. Just ask Tom Tasky. He cut...
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Autonomous Timeline: Following the Money
Acquisitions, mergers and outright departures from the sector serve as almost weekly reminders not just that significant consolidation of autonomous-vehicle (AV) development is underway. Right in...
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Amending the Automated-Driving ‘Constitution’
In May, SAE International and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) jointly released a significant update to SAE’s J3016 Recommended Practice: Taxonomy and Definitions...
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3D Printing Scales-Up
While the 3D-printed vehicle remains a dream, the technology also known as additive manufacturing (AM) already has proven its ability to create impressively complex part geometries in concepts such as EDAG’s...
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‘Thinking Ahead’ Maximizes Additive Manufacturing Potential
When it comes to designing automotive parts to be produced by additive manufacturing (AM), one must get comfortable asking tough questions, having difficult conversations and...
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Time with the Teardown Titan
Competitive benchmarking has long played a vital role in the auto industry, but until recently, it’s been an insider’s game. Then came a surprise hit on YouTube: Munro Live. The ongoing series is...
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WCX 2021: Top Engineers Talk Industry Transformation
Despite more than a year of COVID-19, lockdown, component shortages and uncertainties, the outlook for mobility engineering hasn’t shifted too dramatically during the global pandemic,...
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ZF Builds Its Computational-Power Assets
Even by industry norms, Martin Fischer (right) has a lengthy job title. He is a member of the board of management for ZF and his responsibilities include electronics and ADAS, passive safety...
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Toyota Tops 2021 OEM-Supplier Relations Study
For a record eleventh-straight year, Toyota outperformed six major U.S. and Japanese automakers in a benchmark annual study of automotive OEM-supplier working relations as viewed by suppliers....
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WCX 2021: Systems Thinking as Powerful as Propulsion Systems
There’s a revolution brewing as engineers develop electric and autonomous vehicles that require layers and layers of complicated systems to come together. “This is the time...
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A Resonant Solution for Fast, Flexible EV Charging
The infrastructure of 400V charging stations has been massively expanded in Europe, with some 400 locations in place and more on the way. However, 800V vehicles currently are left out...
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Using CT to Detect Defects in Lithium-Ion Batteries
Because of their power density, lithium-ion batteries as used by electric vehicles (EV) are subject to strict quality monitoring. Industrial computed tomography (CT) increasingly is being...
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ZF Hikes Performance of ProAI Supercompute Platform
Although multinational supplier ZF is widely recognized for conventional components such as its transmissions and braking systems, at April’s Auto Shanghai – one of the few major auto...
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Software Transforming Vehicle Development
Software, already a major factor in vehicle operation, is driving major changes in design processes as its role continues to expand. Electronic architectures and software development strategies are...
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Model-Based Analysis of E-Motor Designs
In the auto industry’s shift toward electric vehicles (EV), permanent magnet motors (PMMs) are increasingly serving a variety of roles, including the vehicle’s traction motor and various...
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NVH Simulation Meets Realism
Vehicle development is amidst three concurrent revolutions – electrification, autonomy and the shift in product design and engineering to more up-front simulation. Any one of those would be a challenge for...
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Engineering a ‘Beast’ of an Electric SUV
General Motors calls it a “beast,” a nickname that the 2022 GMC Hummer SUV earns on its numbers alone. Like the electric Hummer pickup, the SUV packs a propulsion system capable of...
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Ford Announces 48-Volt Architecture for Future Electric Truck
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Advantages of Smart Power Distribution Unit Design for Automotive &...
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Sesame Solar's Nanogrid Tech Promises Major Gains in Drone Endurance