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Volvo’s Polestar Unveils 600-Hp Performance Hybrid
Polestar, Volvo Car Group's performance brand, unveiled its first car, the 600-hp (448-kW) Polestar 1 performance hybrid. Available in mid-2019, it is the first of three vehicles from...
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GKN Readies New 2-Speed E-Axle for 2020
Driveline technology is hot these days, with Tier 1s rolling out new axle-disconnect, electric axle and lightweight innovations in rapid cadence. In the vanguard of this trend is GKN Driveline, whose...
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Federal-Mogul Reveals Cool Solutions for Downsized Engines
At the 2017 IAA motor show in Frankfurt, Federal-Mogul Powertrain plans to reveal advances aimed at cooling the valves of downsized boosted engines via significant heat transfer....
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The Future on Stage at Frankfurt
Sourcing decisions are being based on demand for electrification and capability to attain SAE Levels 4 and 5 autonomy.
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Driverless Cars and Freeway Traffic Flow
The integration of driverless cars onto multilane freeways brings challenges for vehicle and infrastructure planners, not the least of which is ever increasing congestion. The threshold for serious...
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Venturi Effect Powers Dayco's New Brake-Assist System
A unique twist on a basics physics principle provides a fuel efficiency boost to more than 188,000 full-size pickup trucks fitted with the innovative brake-assist technology, known as...
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New Piston Ring Engineered for Lower Emissions Targets
To meet Euro 6d CO2 emissions targets calling for a fleet average emissions limit of 95g/km, engine OEMs increasingly are calling on suppliers and research specialists for technical...
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Jaguar Reveals Its 2040 Future and Electrifies the E-Type
There have been C-Type, D-Type, E-Type, F-Type and S-Type Jaguars—now the company has revealed a new arrival: the Future-Type.
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Conti Revives an Old Concept for Its New Wheel for EVs
Continental is promising improved braking efficiency combined with weight reduction as well as lower maintenance costs for its so-called ‘New Wheel Concept’ revealed at its recent...
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Non-Hybrid ICEs Begin Their Decline
Is the Electrification alarm being rung too early? Not if you’re truly looking over the horizon. While the still-evolving, highly robust and cost-effective internal combustion engine is not yet close to...
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CAE Mastery Helped Achates Power Create Its New Engine
The Achates Power opposed-piston, two-stroke compression-ignition engine is making its way to market, boasting significantly improved fuel efficiency versus today’s standard...
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Pinnacle Engines Partners with India's Greaves Cotton on New Low-Emissions Technology
Indian engine and equipment-maker Greaves Cotton Ltd. and U.S.-based Pinnacle Engines Inc. recently announced a technology partnership for the launch of...
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Mercedes-Benz AMG GT R Wins German Engineers’ Lightweighting Award
Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz unit announced in mid-June that the Mercedes AMG GT R supercar is the winner of the Association of German Engineers’ (VDI) first-ever award for...
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A New ESupercharger for City-Car Engine Boosting
Richard Wall believes an e-supercharger could be the only boost technology required for small, downsized city car engines in traffic dense urban environments, particularly those in China. As...
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Longer, Lower, Wider Fashion Reaches Formula One for 2017
American Formula One viewers squinting through bleary eyes at the live early-morning broadcasts from Europe have noticed changes to the sophisticated race cars for the 2017: they are...
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VW I.D. CROZZ Makes World Debut at Auto Shanghai 2017
Possibly one of the most significant things to so far come out of Auto Shanghai 2017 was courtesy of Volkswagen with the introduction of the I.D. CROZZ concept—the company’s first...
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Inner Secrets of the Toyota-Denso Heat Pump Revealed
The loss of winter driving range in electric vehicles equipped with conventional electric heating systems is well-documented—range being reduced by up to 60% and even more in severe...
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EPA: Engine, Transmission Advances Make 2025 CAFE Regs Attainable, Affordable
Although the Trump Administration has indicated intent to roll back the ambitious light-vehicle fuel-economy standards initiated by President Obama in 2012—and...
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Past as Prelude to the Future
Engineers who have done patent searches know there’s truth in the old saying: Few things are truly new under the sun. First hybrid-electric car? 1899. First autonomous car tests? 1920s. First car with a...
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Refining Ride Quality at Lower Cost
Achieving product differentiation without adding significant cost is on the wish list of all automakers.
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Targeting 40% BTE with Advanced VCR
Nissan’s announcement at the 2016 Paris Motor Show that it will bring a variable-compression-ratio engine to production in 2018 (see AE November, 2016, p. 6) energized those in the advanced-ICE...
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Lucid Motors’ David Moseley: EV or ICE, “It Is All Physics”
As Director, Powertrain, CAE Crash & Safety for electric-vehicle startup Lucid Motors, David Moseley may hold one of the most intriguing—and possibly even...
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Hard, Slick and Ready to Roll
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new breed of nanocomposite coating.
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Can Product Planning Keep Pace with Technology?
Product planners: How accurate is your technology ‘radar?’
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Achates Powers toward Production
Nothing short of a game-changing technology has any chance of disrupting the world’s combustion-engine mainstream, it is generally believed. Felix Wankel’s rotary came the closest, carving out a...
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Inside the Bolt EV
Cutaway propulsion systems displayed at motor shows attract engineers faster than free beer and pizza. So perhaps it wasn’t surprising when Matthias Mueller, the newly-promoted chairman of Volkswagen Group, and his...
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Bridging the Power Gap with 48 Volts
The hybrid Lincoln MKZ I'm driving feels like it's floating on air as we hustle down I-75, the combustion engine having been shut off by a clever bit of electrification. On this long, flat stretch of...
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Lucid Motors Unveils Air Electric Luxury Car
Lucid Motors, the latest electric-vehicle startup to tilt at Tesla, unveiled the production version of its first model, the Air luxury sedan that boasts a twin-motor driveline and high-density...
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Alfa Romeo's First SUV Shares New RWD Sedan Platform, Engines
Alfa Romeo's first SUV made its global debut at the 2016 L.A. Auto Show. The Stelvio is based on the Giulia, launched last year, and shares the same architecture and engine...
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