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Clearing the Air on 2025 GDI Engines
Powertrain engineers who attended this year’s SAE International High-Efficiency Engine Symposium and World Congress heard one message loud and clear: Don’t bet against the internal combustion...
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Harley-Davidson Debuts LiveWire Electric Motorcycle Project
Harley-Davidson has for a number of years dispatched an engineer to SAE's annual Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Symposium for the purpose of gathering intel and making contacts in...
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Chrysler Names New Head of Product Planning
Chrysler recently announced the appointment of Benjamin Winter as the new NAFTA Head of Product Planning. With this appointment, he is also named to the Chrysler Group Leadership Team. The...
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Ford Reveals Five-Row Side-Curtain Airbag, an Industry First
Ford Motor Co. debuted this week the only five-row side-curtain airbag in the automotive industry, according to a company release. The airbag, which is featured in the 2015...
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Clegg to Lead GM's North America Manufacturing
General Motors announced Tuesday several personnel changes in leadership. Cathy Clegg was appointed Vice President of North America Manufacturing, effective July 1. Clegg will lead more than...
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SAE Pursues Standard for Engine-Off Airbag Deactivation
SAE International is gauging interest in development of an SAE recommended practice addressing the relationship between engine status and airbag functionality. Keith Wilson, Technical...
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Ford Debuts New Airbag Design in 2015 Mustang
The 2015 Mustang will feature a new design of an inflatable knee airbag, Ford announced June 20. Packaged inside the glove box, the new airbag provides protection comparable to its traditional...
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Tesla Aerodynamicists Use CFD to Evaluate Yaw Performance
Automotive aerodynamics ultimately resolves into the six forces and moments that a vehicle moving through an environment experiences. In wind-tunnel testing, the typical frame of...
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Next-Gen Seatbelt Retractor
TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. has launched its next-generation seatbelt retractor, the Floating Spool 1 (FS1), which offers reduced weight (about 15% lighter) and smaller dimensions compared to previous systems,...
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Envisaging and Delivering More Functional Concept Cars
Concept car creation is invariably a high-cost, labor-intensive, time-critical operation with an end result that can be delicate to the touch, may lack the perceived quality essential...
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Meeting the Need for Engineering Talent
Perhaps no one knows the realities of the U.S. engineering job market more than Laura Kurtz, Manager, U.S. Recruiting at Ford Motor Co. The shortage of engineers and the increased competition among...
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Honda, Peugeot Stylists Make Digital Renderings a Focal Point of Design
As stylists transition to digital designs with fewer physical prototypes, they are seeking more realistic real-time graphics. Honda and PSA Peugeot Citroën have each...
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Ford Test-Protocol Error Causes EPA Ratings Revision
An error in a key vehicle fuel-economy test protocol caused Ford to lower its U.S. EPA fuel economy (FE) ratings for six 2013 and 2014 model year Ford and Lincoln vehicles, most of them...
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GMZ Energy Demos Device for Waste-Heat Recapture
GMZ Energy has announced the successful demonstration of a high-temperature thermoelectric generation (TEG) unit designed for automotive (civilian and military) waste-heat recapture. In the...
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Simulating to Track Soot Formations in Diesel Engines
It is not easy to see what is going on inside an engine—it is a hot and hostile environment. But if you are an engine designer seeking to optimize engines for fuel efficiency and...
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Personnel Moves at Denso
Among several recent personnel moves by Denso International America Inc. are added responsibilities for Roger Berg and the hiring of Dr. Gary Horvat.
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3-D Tool-Pathing Solution
Through collaborative efforts, Spatial Corp. and Omax Corp. offer an easy-to-use 3-D tool-pathing solution for waterjet machining. The new Intelli-CAM software tool for OMAX JetMachining Centers generates 3-D tool...
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Book Explores Role of AHSS in Vehicle Lightweighting
Automotive Lightweighting Using Advanced High-Strength Steels from SAE International explores the role of advanced high-strength steels (AHSS) in addressing the challenge of vehicle...
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Oregon State Captures Fourth FSAE Michigan Title in Five Years
Oregon State University’s Global Formula Racing (GFR) team took top honors with a total score of 876.6 at the 2014 Formula SAE Michigan competition, held May 14-17 at Michigan...
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Systems-engineering a New 4x4 Benchmark
"We set a high target for this program: Create the industry’s most fuel-efficient four-wheel-drive system, with the greatest off-road capability and functionality,” said Mike Kirk, Chrysler’s...
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Land Rover's Discovery Vision Concept Has Real Future for 2015
The Land Rover Discovery's image is of a capably rugged vehicle with room for seven, and interior luxury that goes with its clearly premium exterior. But what makes the...
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FPGA Motor Simulation
OPAL-RT Technologies offers a suite of tools to make field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based simulation accessible to engineers developing controllers for electric drives. First, a set of real-time motor models,...
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Japanese OEMs Tops at Involving Suppliers Early in Development Process, Says 2014 Study
Toyota and Honda are better than the traditional domestic Big 3 at involving suppliers early in the product development process, according to results of...
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Walking Through Some Ideas for Improved Pedestrian Safety
"Everyone is a pedestrian" is a traffic safety dictum of NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration). That's pretty obvious, but America's pedestrian safety record is not...
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Universal Vision Sensor
Balluff’s BVS universal vision sensor offers 360° part position detection, defect finding, contour-based counting and matching, barcode reading (linear and 2-D DM), and optical character verification (OCV). It also...
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Dual-Use Heater Core Contributes to Better Vehicle Fuel Economy
Imagine a vehicle towing a 3000-lb (1360-kg) trailer up a 6% grade on a 110°F (43°C) day. This scenario describes less than 1% of driving time, but 100% of vehicles have...
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Driving Good Dynamics
Dave Rollett, Vehicle Dynamics Team Leader at motorsport and engineering consultancy Prodrive, is forthright in his views about car buyers: “Most do not know what good dynamics feel like, yet they form strong...
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Materials Intelligence Consortium Launched
Granta Design at the recent SAE 2014 World Congress launched the Automotive Materials Consortium (AutoMatlC) that will bring together OEMs and suppliers in the automotive and off-highway sectors to...
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More Attractive Kia Sedona Minivan on All-New Platform
"It's a multipurpose vehicle (MPV)," said Kia Product Planning VP Orth Hedrick of the 2015 Sedona, introduced at the 2014 New York International Auto Show. Although it has a some...
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