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News Regulations/Standards
SAE Completes Next Step to Standardize Tesla-Developed EV Charging Connector
SAE International announced on December 19 that it has released the Technical Information Report (TIR) for the SAE J3400 standard covering development and...
News Green Design & Manufacturing
Commercial-Truck EV Fleets Slow to Grow
Environmental regulations and corporate sustainability goals are driving commercial fleets to adopt electric trucks in all classes. But the still-evolving charging infrastructure is stymying their...
News Test & Measurement
CES: Sumitomo Sensing Core Is a Sensor-Free Smart Tire
Sumitomo Rubber Industries first announced its Sensing Core technology in 2017. But it wasn’t until 2024 that the Japanese tire maker used its debut appearance at CES to promote...
News Power
Cadillac Reveals 2025 CT5-V and CT5-V Blackwing with More Tech
While Cadillac is hurtling toward its electric-only future with five EVs either in-production or announced, the V-series of ICE performance vehicles — celebrating its...
News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Axial Flux E-Motor Maker Progresses Toward Mobility, Alters Cooling Design
SAE Media first introduced readers to Infinitum in last year’s roundup of e-motor developments. (LINK) The company claims it made a 50% smaller and lighter...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
CES: VinFast Previews Wild Concept Truck
VinFast used its third appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to introduce three new electric vehicles, including a midsize pick-up truck concept and a small CUV bound for the...
Articles Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Tuning-Up AI’s ‘Understanding’ to Make Safer ADAS, AVs
In December 2023, Kognic, the Gothenburg, Sweden-based developer of a software platform to analyze and optimize the massively complex datasets behind ADAS and...
News Power
Stellantis Unveils STLA Large Platform for D, E Segments
Stellantis on Friday unveiled its STLA Large platform, which will be the basis for eight new EVs from sedans to Trail Rated SUVs by 2026.
News Test & Measurement
Enterprise Battery-Analysis Pioneer Voltaiq Partners with Siemens
As CES 2024 was wrapping up in Las Vegas, battery-analysis pioneer Voltaiq and Siemens Digital Industries Software announced a partnership they said is intended to help...
Supplier Eye Automotive
The Supplier Capacity Dilemma at the Heart of the ICE-To-EV Transition
In the end, the transition from ICE to EV is about more than new technologies and processes. Suppliers need to be keenly aware of the risks assumed as BEV capacity is added. Being on the right program from a volume perspective is critical to supplier viability.
Technology Report Manufacturing & Prototyping
CES 2024: VW, Cerence Integrate ChatGPT in IDA Voice Assistant
ChatGPT has entered the car. At CES 2024, Volkswagen and technology partner Cerence introduced an update to IDA, VW’s in-car voice assistant, so it can now use ChatGPT to...
News Power
CES 2024: Magna Puts Multiple Innovations in New, More Efficient 800v E-Motor
Ahead of its press conference this week at CES in Las Vegas, Magna International showed journalists a brand new 800-volt e-drive motor that it said sets new...
News Energy
Tremec-Trification
Tremec is charting a future in vehicle electrification that leverages the company’s gear-manufacturing history while clearly departing from its intrinsic connection to internal combustion engine. Tremec, a...
News Transportation
NHTSA Moves on Driver-Impairment Regulation
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in mid-December took a significant step to formalize a safety regulation mandating technology to prevent impaired driving in new passenger vehicles. The primary question now is which technology to detect alcohol or drug impairment can get the job done.
News Design
The US Needs More Engineers. What’s the Solution?
A sustained, coordinated, and multipronged approach involving both public and private sector players is the single best way to ensure a continuous supply of skilled professionals.
News Power
Cadillac Reveals Vistiq EV for 2026 Model Year
Cadillac continued its rapid rollout of future EVs today, announcing the 2026 Vistiq, a three-row SUV the company said is designed for families.
News Energy
Schaeffler Heads Back to CES with New Acquisition, Capabilities
Schaeffler Group, energized by a new acquisition and a new tagline “we pioneer motion,” will showcase new capabilities at CES in January — its first appearance at the...
SAE Standards News Green Design & Manufacturing
SAE Updates Gasoline Fuel-Injection Standards, Additions Expected
The Gasoline Fuel Injection Standards Committee (GFISC) plays a pivotal role in developing and maintaining SAE’s Standards, Recommended Practices (RP) and Information...
News Materials
SPE Names 2023’s Best Automotive Plastics Innovations
The Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) in early November, 2023 announced the winners of the 52nd annual Automotive Innovation Awards Gala (IAG). The annual competition highlights...
News Automotive
Panel: Better Tech Can Make Recycled Aluminum More Desirable
A panel of metal-recycling experts said the biggest challenge facing the recycling industry is that the composition of materials coming from the stream of scrapped vehicles...
Articles Photonics/Optics
Nodar's GridDetect: Look, Ma, No Lidar!
The streets of Munich look different when seen through a Nodar point cloud created by a set of stereo cameras. Nodar’s Hammerhead technology uses two standard, automotive-grade CMOS cameras...
News Electronics & Computers
Pothole Detectives
Vehicles traveling repeated routes are data-gatherers for Aisin’s Road Maintenance Solution (ARMS) technology, ready for beta testing in the U.S.
Q&A Automotive
VinFast Confident VinES Battery-Tech Merger Will Make for Better EVs
In October, Vietnam’s EV newcomer VinFast announced that it would merge with VinES Energy Solutions JSC, the battery-development and -manufacturing arm of its...
Technology Report Power
Schaeffler Promotes E-Motor Manufacturing Flexibility
Global auto supplier Schaeffler Group has a message for the EV motor market: the company is capable of building custom solutions for many different EV drivelines and use cases. And...
Q&A Power
Clarios Sees Low-Voltage Electricals as Vital in EV, AV Future
In an increasingly electrified world, there’s still a need for 12-volt batteries and a low-voltage electrical architecture in vehicles. Clarios, which provides the...
Supplier Eye Power
'Scaling' EVs Won’t Come Easy
Regular readers of Supplier Eye will note that this author tries to outline the positives and the negatives of supplier strategies. It’s a moving target. A recent deluge of negative headlines with...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Can Solid-State Batteries Commercialize by 2030?
The 1915 Detroit Electric Brougham was powered by lead-acid batteries, and so was the first generation of the General Motors EV1 back in 1996. The 1915 car could reportedly travel 80...
News Imaging
Owl AI’s 3D Thermal Sensors See Further into the Dark
The race to develop low-cost and effective sensors for automated driving requires all-day effort. Getting sensors to accurately identify the world around them is easiest on a clear, sunny day, but that solves just part of the problem.
News Materials
Magna Introduces 100% Melt-Recyclable Foam for Seating
Magna last week announced the development of EcoSphere, which it calls an industry-first product that will prevent one category of material — seat foam padding and trim covers —...
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