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Jeep’s Gladiator Takes up Arms in Midsize-Pickup Battle
Maybe the only thing more surprising than the fact it’s been more than a quarter-century since FiatChrysler’s Jeep brand sold a pickup truck is that it’s taken so long to pull...
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Ford Engineers a Tech Barrage with 2020 Lincoln Aviator
Ford Motor Co. officially launched its 2020 Lincoln Aviator at the 2018 Los Angeles auto show, with the all-new three-row midsized luxury SUV featuring a barrage of equally new and...
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Ford and Its Suppliers Take Top Honors at the 48th SPE Automotive Innovation Awards Competition
Ford Motor Co. took home top honors at this year's 48th SPE Automotive Innovation Awards Competition, winning the Grand Award for its...
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Predicting the Road to Efficiency
Delphi Technologies isn’t coming right out to say most of us aren’t very good at driving efficiently, but there’s no getting around that’s what’s implied by the company’s new Intelligent Driving...
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Ford Investing $45 Million in New Advanced Manufacturing Center to Speed Production Innovations
Ford Motor Company is investing $45 million in its new Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) in Redford Township, Michigan, to help quickly...
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2019 Hyundai Nexo: Fuel-Cell Refinement, SUV Luxury
The 2019 Hyundai Nexo is a distinctively styled and luxurious C-class SUV based upon Hyundai’s first fully dedicated fuel-cell electric vehicle (FCEV) platform. A technological flagship...
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Additive Manufacturing Is Transforming Mobility Engineering, Driving the Factory of the Future
Additive manufacturing continues to advance and transform mobility engineering, as aerospace and automotive firms increasingly adopt and invest in...
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SAE Demo Day Captures Public Perception of Autonomous Vehicles
With the goal of gaining insight into the public’s perception of self-driving technology, SAE International on Dec. 12-14 hosted its second “SAE Demo Day” at Babcock Ranch, a...
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Could This Infinitely Variable Compression Mechanism Be the Next Piston Engine Game-Changer?
Whether its for economic incentives or reaching environmental goals, automotive and aerospace engine makers are continually chasing fractions of...
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Just Say the Words: What3words
If you’re standing in the middle of New York’s Rockefeller Center or on beachside road outside Cape Town, how do you tell a rideshare where to pick you up? Most places on our planet, from fields and...
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Logos Technologies Redkite Airborne, Wide-Area Sensor Takes Flight in the Netherlands
European government officials gained their first glimpse of Logos Technologies’ Redkite wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) sensor in operation, during a...
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'Electrifying' New Range Rover Evoque
At first glance, it may take the shrewd eye of a Land Rover aficionado to notice the difference between the new Range Rover Evoque luxury crossover and its predecessor (which debuted 2010), but every body...
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Is Arm the Future for Airborne Platforms in Aerospace and Defense?
In recent years, Arm processors have made a quiet, understated entry into the aerospace and defense market. With a well-established reputation in commercial markets for...
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BorgWarner Integrated Drive Module in Testing Phase
BorgWarner’s new integrated Drive Module (iDM - left), currently in development, takes key propulsion-system elements for electrified vehicles and bundles those into a self-contained...
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2020 Toyota Corolla Sedan Gets a New Platform and Adds Premium Content, Hybrid Version on the Way
Toyota has revealed the 12th-generation Toyota Corolla sedan, bringing with it similar updates announced with the arrival of the hatchback...
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Stratasys LPM Technology Marries Additive Manufacturing, Short-Run Metal Parts Production
Stratasys (Nasdaq:SSYS) in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, is developing a new additive manufacturing (AM) platform for short-run metal applications based on...
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Electrify the U.S. Postal Fleet!
What better way to promote the reliable, durable, quiet, clean, and low-cost operation of EVs than to have them serving us daily in our neighborhoods?
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SAE Publishes First Global Standard on Shared Mobility
In September 2018, after just a 10-month process, SAE published J3163, the first globally-developed shared-mobility standard. It defines shared mobility as the shared use of a vehicle, motorcycle, scooter, bicycle or other travel mode, to provide users with short-term access to a transportation mode on an as-needed basis.
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Moving the Goalposts of Emission Compliance
Placing definitive bets on any one compliance technology is a careful process of balancing several considerations, including cost, consumer acceptance, competitive considerations, and capital. Knowing the future location of the goal posts is the most important consideration.
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Engineering AVs to ‘Play Nice’ With Humans
The reality of automated driving is that it’s going to take many years, decades even, to largely supplant human driving.
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Electrifying the Two-Wheeler
Alta Motors did not set out to create a zero-emission vehicle or invent a vital cog in the new landscape of electrified mobility. It wanted to build the best motorcycle it could regardless of powertrain, with products to satisfy the most serious motorcyclists.
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AV Testing is for DUMMIES
Rapid development of automated vehicles is driving ATD innovations, as Humanetics’ CEO Chris O’Connor explains here.
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Packaging Honda’s all-new Insight
Honda’s Noriyuki Sato spoke through a translator with Editor-in-Chief Lindsay Brooke about what he calls “the Smart, Green Sedan” development. Read on to learn his, well, insight.
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Aluminum’s Rising Star
The impact aluminum is having on vehicle manufacturing, on sourcing — and on electric-vehicle engineering — was in full view on a recent visit to Constellium Automotive Structures' plant west of Detroit in Van Buren Township, MI.
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Smart Factories Must Be Flexible, Connected and Secure
There’s no shortage of advanced technologies at the disposal of automakers in their efforts to manufacture passenger cars and trucks in a safer, more cost-effective and efficient...
Articles Propulsion
Beyond the EV Technology Horizon: Now It’s All About Speed
Speed is absolutely essential for electric vehicles (EVs). Not speed in terms of acceleration and maximum velocity, but the time it takes to conceive, develop and produce...
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Gordon Murray Calls New IStream Superlight Chassis Concept a Paradigm Shift
High-profile automotive engineer and designer Prof. Gordon Murray is utterly confident of the potential for his company’s latest iStream Superlight manufacturing...
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The 2019 Nissan Altima Is a Competent Player in a Shrinking Sedan Segment
The Altima sedan is an important product for Nissan, what it calls its “brand ambassador.” Long a solid choice in the mid-size sedan segment, its typically...
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Air- or Water-Cooling Resistors for EVs: The Case for H2O
The choice between water cooling and air cooling for internal-combustion engines was for decades a very real debate in the auto industry, with Volkswagen and Porsche for years...
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New Raytheon and Lockheed Martin Agreements Expand Missile Defense Production
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Ford Announces 48-Volt Architecture for Future Electric Truck
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Active Strake System Cuts Cruise Drag, Boosts Flight Efficiency
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Accelerating Down the Road to Autonomy
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How Airbus is Using w-DED to 3D Print Larger Titanium Airplane Parts
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Cooling a New Generation of Aerospace and Defense Embedded...
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Battery Abuse Testing: Pushing to Failure
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Quiet, Please: NVH Improvement Opportunities in the Early Design Cycle
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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