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WCX 2023: Can You Drive like SAE J3300
A valid driver’s license from any country put attendees in the driver’s seat at SAE WCX 2023, allowing them to test their driving skills using SAE J3300, the driving skills standard used to...

News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
WCX 2023: Biomimicry Inspires Product Development
Nature has always served as a giant classroom where problem-solving lessons are taught — a “storehouse of inspiration for new and different ideas,” noted Trisha Brown, co-director...

News Green Design & Manufacturing
Handicapping the ‘Race Toward Zero’
Kelly Senecal did not set out to champion the multi-modal approach to vehicle carbon reduction. He’s the CEO of Covergent Science, a company specializing in computational fluid dynamics. A...

News Manufacturing & Prototyping
2025 Ram 1500 REV Driving Range Would Jump to Head of Class
Stellantis’ Ram brand introduced more details about the 2025 Ram 1500 REV electric pickup at the New York International Auto Show in early April, and one option is an...

Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Spelling Ford with an ‘E’
One year ago, Ford Motor Co. kicked off a new era in its long history when it bifurcated into two strategically interdependent auto businesses. Ford Blue, the “traditional” business, is responsible for...

Articles Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Designing for 200 BMEP and 22,000 Rpm
Fire-bombing destroyed Japan’s 66 largest cities and their industry during World War II. After the war, over 200 makers of light motorbikes sprang into being because such transportation could be...

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Making H2 Fuel Cells Happen
Over a 23-year career Rob Del Core has led more than 20 programs related to zero-emissions vehicles and subsystems, most of them related to developing hydrogen fuel-cell power, at companies including Hyzon...

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Snapdragon Ride Flex Puts Safety, Infotainment onto Single Chip
One chip, multiple benefits. That’s the claim made by Qualcomm Technologies about its new, scalable system-on-a-chip product family.

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Elon Musk Discusses Tesla’s Future
Tesla’s 2023 Investor Day on March 1 at the company’s Austin, Texas, Gigafactory was short on new-product announcements but long on how the EV automaker will continue to refine its vehicles,...

Road Ready Propulsion
Toyota Stretches SUV Line-Up with World Debut of Grand Highlander
The new Grand Highlander is a three-row midsize SUV, just like Highlander. So it’s not surprising that the Toyota siblings share two powertrains.

News Unmanned Systems
Lidar Vs. Everybody in the Onboard Sensor Race
Despite the industrywide realization that SAE driving automation Levels 4 and 5 are not imminent and instead long-term goals, development continues on the sensors that power current and...

News Power
Hyundai Bears down on EV Charging, Sustainability
Inoperative public charging stations are a major irritant to both EV owners and to Hyundai Motor North America, asserts Olabisi Boyle, the company’s VP of product planning and mobility...

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Europe Steps Back from 2035 ICE Ban
In a surprising move that paves the way for the European Union’s adoption of a mandate to eliminate vehicle CO2 emissions, on March 25 the EU reached an agreement with Germany to step back from a...

News Test & Measurement
Turning the Vehicle into a Giant Microphone
When an emergency vehicle is approaching but its blaring siren isn’t heard by nearby motorists, all are put at risk. Engineers at Harman International have developed novel sensor technology...

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Finding Range Through Compute Efficiency
This past January, I was among tens of thousands who returned to Las Vegas for CES—the show’s reawakening after the pandemic. Some definite themes emerged from the dozens of conversations I...

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Tesla’s FSD Recall Impacts AV Industry
On February 16, 2023, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that Tesla had voluntarily agreed to recall 362,758 Model S, Model X, Model 3 and Model Y vehicles – the...

News Power
Battle for the Box
Whether you call them packs, boxes, or trays, the structures that envelop and protect EV battery cells and their supporting electrical and thermal-management hardware are among the industry’s top subsystem...

Editorial Manufacturing & Prototyping
The Ford We Didn’t Know
Ford CEO Jim Farley exposed significant product-development lapses during his company’s fourth-quarter-2022 earnings call on February 2. Ford’s 4Q profit performance was no-excuses dismal. Its causes, he...

Articles Electronics & Computers
Balancing the ‘Dominos’ in EV Thermal Management
Electric vehicle thermal management requires OEMs and suppliers to control many variables that potentially create excessive heat. Designing thermal-management systems (TMS) to...

Articles Software
The Push for E-Powertrain Progress
Electric powertrain development continues at a fervent pace as OEMs, suppliers and startups try to optimize current technology while forging ahead into new areas. Although battery engineering and...

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Volvo’s Electric High-Wire Act
Under a circus-size tent in downtown Stockholm, Volvo recently introduced its new high-wire act — one with its share of nail-biting risk.

News Unmanned Systems
Sustainability Shines in Asahi Kasei Electric Shuttle Concept
Asahi Kasei’s latest concept vehicle is a rolling showcase of the supplier’s materials and electronics innovations, with a strong focus on sustainability. Dubbed the...

News Manufacturing & Prototyping
BMW Takes Multi-Modal Route to Manufacturing
BMW’s Munich factory remains the fertile root of a century of manufacturing, including its first R32 motorcycle in 1923. But the Bavarian automaker’s oldest assembly site is transforming...

News Power
Mazda’s 2024 CX-90 Offers Turbo I-6, PHEV Propulsion
With crossover SUVs now the backbone of its North American sales volume, Mazda this week revealed the CX-90 SUV, a fullsize 3-row model to serve as the brand’s flagship when it...

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Mercedes-Benz Architecting Its Own Operating System
Mercedes-Benz revealed in late February that it is developing its own computer operating system, dubbed MB.OS, which it said will be standardized across the company’s entire model...

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Lumotive’s New LCM Underpins Next-Gen Lidar
“The future happened yesterday” is an appropriate description of the rapid pace of development in automated-driving technology. The expression may be most accurate in sensor tech where,...

News Green Design & Manufacturing
Making over the World’s Leading Hybrid
Its markedly upgraded power and performance take it to a driving-dynamics place difficult to believe could be achieved.

News Transportation
Recaro Pioneers Seating Shells Made with CF Recyclate
The green flag is about to drop on an auto-racing first: a seat shell infused with recycled carbon fiber.

News Energy
Wolfspeed, ZF to Collaborate on New Uses of Silicon Carbide
Leading silicon carbide chipmaker Wolfspeed joined German officials to announce construction of what it said would be the world’s largest silicon carbide device factory. The...

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