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Position-Control Torque Arm System
A position-control torque arm system from Mountz improves and automates the fastening process while reducing manufacturing costs. The compact position-control device features a touch-screen display that is...
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Advanced Materials for Catalysts
SDCmaterials will partner with Car Sound Exhaust System and supply the company with material for its catalytic converters. SDC's Nano-on-Nano formulation, applied to exhaust-treatment catalysts, requires as...
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The e-LSD alternative to AWD
Is engineering a new vehicle for all-wheel drive worth the cost, weight, and fuel consumption penalties for perhaps 10% of volume on some platforms?
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Designer Yin Meets Engineer Yang
The interface between design and engineering may be the oldest yin-and-yang in vehicle development. And while there are numerous challenges in turning the stylists’ work into practical, manufacturable and...
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Hands Off, Eyes Off, Brain Off
Euro NCAP’s president warns that without coherent policies, the growing availability of automated technologies may result in piecemeal technology development—and unintentional consequences. Read on to learn more.
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Automated Driving Meets Regulation NHTSA and the Next 50 Years
HTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind recently spoke on the prospects for reaching zero deaths on America’s roads. “Conceptually, the challenge is extremely straightforward. If...
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New Dawn at Honda R&D
Honda’s new 10-speed automatic has not yet entered production, but it is already among the technologies that competitors are clamoring to benchmark when it enters the market. Designed and built in house, the new...
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ZF TRW to Launch Electric Park Brake in India, Production Starts in 2017
ZF TRW recently announced through its joint venture, Brakes India Ltd, that it has won the first business award for its Electric Park Brake (EPB) system in India....
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Honeywell Partners with Indian Manufacturer on Low-GWP Auto Refrigerant
Honeywell has entered into a supply agreement and technology license with an Indian manufacturer to produce Honeywell Solstice yf, an automobile refrigerant with a...
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Clutchless Hybrid Transmission Concept for High-Performance Cars
An MIT student-inventor’s clutchless hybrid transmission concept aims to provide high-performance vehicles an energy-saving attitude without compromise.
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CO2 Air Conditioning Development Comes Alive in Germany
CO2 refrigerant for auto air conditioning, assumed to be a non-starter a few years ago, seems to be live technology once more. The SAE Interior Climate Control Committee (ICCC) has...
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New York Auto Show 2016: Lincoln Unveils Big-SUV Future with Navigator Concept
Intent on staying on its message of reinvigorating its brand under the banner of “quiet luxury,” Ford’s premium-vehicle unit, Lincoln, used the 2016 New...
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Small-Diameter Springs and Rings
Smalley’s newly expanded manufacturing capabilities now allow its engineers to design and manufacture Smalley Wave Springs and Spirolox Retaining Rings as small as 4 mm (0.16 in) in diameter. The company...
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2016 SAE Congress: Thermal Storage Is Solution to EV Winter Range Loss
Thermal storage, now coming into use as a low-cost method to maintain A/C cooling during idle stops in warm weather, has been identified by modeling studies and...
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Turbocharger Speed Sensors Aim for Light-Duty Applications
In the drive for greater combustion efficiency for light-duty vehicles, engineers are increasingly aided by faster and higher-fidelity sensors, computers, and algorithms. An...
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2016 SAE Congress: Innovation Stars at 8th Annual GAMIC Awards
Novel technologies from Michigan-based companies were standouts in the 8th annual Global Automotive & Mobility Innovation Challenge (GAMIC). The founders of these winning...
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2016 SAE Congress: Computers Will Amplify Human Creativity, Says DARPA Expert
New manufacturing methods are at odds with the human mind’s ability to envision innovative component shapes, but computers can help fill the creative void,...
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Mustang Loses Scoops, Little Else in Transition to RHD
“One Ford” is a technological and commercial philosophy that the company is energetically pursuing to minimize market-specific modifications for a broad raft of products. The...
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2016 SAE Congress: Is Biomimicry in Your Design Future?
Animals, birds, and mammals are natural-born innovators that can inspire automotive engineers to create novel technologies. The term for such an influence is biomimicry.
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2016 SAE Congress: Engineering Education Gets Industry Boost
Deep Orange sounds like a top-secret code, but Clemson University engineering students have known it as their pathway to greater automotive knowledge and real-world experience....
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2016 SAE Congress: Clemson University and Toyota Unveil UBox Concept
A concept vehicle engineered by Clemson University graduate students features a curved glass roof with a multi-material support structure produced by a novel manufacturing...
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V-CR, Water Injection, New EGR Methods Top SAE Engines Symposium
Powertrain experts detailed the technologies they see as most promising to enable light-vehicle engines to meet global CO2 regulations through 2025, at the 2016 SAE...
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Nissan Targets Cabin NVH, Makes Big Investment in Sentra Upgrade
Significant updates to the seventh generation Sentra make the 2016 model Nissan’s quietest and most dynamic-driving compact sedan to date. The automaker invested more than...
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DSD, Solvay 'Sink Their Teeth' into Plastic Transmission Advances
For the automotive industry, plastics have long been a weight-saving material of choice, with a wide range of high-volume applications from body panels to interiors and...
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Tesla's "Affordable" Model 3 Brings Technology Questions
The ravenous feeding habits of the 24-hour news cycle rarely turn toward automotive transportation, and usually only when a disaster has happened, such as Toyota’s acceleration mess...
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Additive Manufacturing Enhances GTDI Pistons
The trend toward downsized gasoline turbo-charged direct-injected (GTDI) engines has raised peak combustion chamber pressures to 160 bar (2321 psi) and temperatures above 2000°C—nearly the...
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Preparing for a 48-volt Revival
More than a decade after the widely anticipated 42-volt electrical revolution died—the victim of increasingly efficient 12-volt components, wiring strategies, and digital controls—demand for greater...
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Defying the disruptors and Driving Innovation
Need proof of the auto industry’s crazy pace of change? Look no further than the daily news, where reports of each emergent player — and their impact on what remains of the status quo —...
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