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Tesla Aerodynamicists Use CFD to Evaluate Yaw Performance
Automotive aerodynamics ultimately resolves into the six forces and moments that a vehicle moving through an environment experiences. In wind-tunnel testing, the typical frame of...
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Hyundai, Ford Pursue Structural Composites Despite Challenges
The lightweighting potential of composite materials is undeniable. But harnessing that potential in a reasonably economic way is the crux to widespread composites use in vehicle...
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Envisaging and Delivering More Functional Concept Cars
Concept car creation is invariably a high-cost, labor-intensive, time-critical operation with an end result that can be delicate to the touch, may lack the perceived quality essential...
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Honda, Peugeot Stylists Make Digital Renderings a Focal Point of Design
As stylists transition to digital designs with fewer physical prototypes, they are seeking more realistic real-time graphics. Honda and PSA Peugeot Citroën have each...
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Ford Test-Protocol Error Causes EPA Ratings Revision
An error in a key vehicle fuel-economy test protocol caused Ford to lower its U.S. EPA fuel economy (FE) ratings for six 2013 and 2014 model year Ford and Lincoln vehicles, most of them...
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GMZ Energy Demos Device for Waste-Heat Recapture
GMZ Energy has announced the successful demonstration of a high-temperature thermoelectric generation (TEG) unit designed for automotive (civilian and military) waste-heat recapture. In the...
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Vehicles Nab Ultra-High Mpg at 35th Annual SAE Supermileage
U.S. consumers were still reeling from the 1970s oil embargo that caused gasoline prices to soar when the top SAE Supermileage team fielded a car that snared 558 mpg at the...
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Personnel Moves at Denso
Among several recent personnel moves by Denso International America Inc. are added responsibilities for Roger Berg and the hiring of Dr. Gary Horvat.
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IAC Opens New Tech Center in Shanghai
A technical center is part of International Automotive Components' recently opened Shanghai facility that also houses its new Asia headquarters offices.
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New China Tech Center Is TRW's Largest Worldwide
At 66,000 m² (710,000 ft²), TRW's new technical center in Anting, China, is the company's largest worldwide.
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3-D Tool-Pathing Solution
Through collaborative efforts, Spatial Corp. and Omax Corp. offer an easy-to-use 3-D tool-pathing solution for waterjet machining. The new Intelli-CAM software tool for OMAX JetMachining Centers generates 3-D tool...
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Book Explores Role of AHSS in Vehicle Lightweighting
Automotive Lightweighting Using Advanced High-Strength Steels from SAE International explores the role of advanced high-strength steels (AHSS) in addressing the challenge of vehicle...
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Teams Make Unique Statements at 2014 Formula SAE Michigan
The 109 open-wheel racecar originals competing at the 2014 Formula SAE Michigan event were created and built by collegiate students eager to show the results of their product-development decisions.
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Four SAE Student Members Among Finalists for Coveted F1 Engineering Role
Four American students, each with ties to SAE International's Formula SAE series, have made it to the world finals of the Infiniti Performance Engineering Academy. The...
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Systems-engineering a New 4x4 Benchmark
"We set a high target for this program: Create the industry’s most fuel-efficient four-wheel-drive system, with the greatest off-road capability and functionality,” said Mike Kirk, Chrysler’s...
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Achates Aims at 2025 Light-truck Power
It’s autumn 2024, and you’re at the local auto mall shopping for a new pickup truck — one that delivers the 32-mpg fuel economy required of full-size trucks for the upcoming model year. As the...
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Lighter, Stronger Chassis
The Counter Pressure Casting (CPC) process is particularly suited for the production of aluminum suspension components such as wheel carriers and steering knuckles. Using a typical AlSi7Mg alloy such as A356 or EN...
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Watching for Ways to Stand ABOVE THE CROWD
Whether design teams are responding to the demand for more features and functions or meeting regulatory requirements, they’re using sensors to link digital controls to the analog world. Sensor...
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VW’s New E-Golf May Lead the Way to Lithium-Air Power
Herbert Ruholl, Volkswagen’s Head of Technical Projects Management, e-Vehicles, has an answer for critics of the hitherto slow progress of battery development: “We expect the next...
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Creating Chrysler 200's Interior Identity
The 2015 Chrysler 200 midsize sedan’s floating center console design with a pass-through storage area may have staying power beyond this Chrysler Group-first application.
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McLaren CEO Fast-Forwarding Technology-Centric McLaren Automotive
It’s a very long way from building $10,000 Ford Escorts to being responsible for a company making $1.5 million super cars, but Mike Flewitt, CEO of McLaren Automotive, has...
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Low-Dropout Regulators for Body and Powertrain
ROHM Semiconductor's new 16-model lineup of low-dropout regulators (LDOs) are optimized for MCU power supplies in automotive body and powertrain systems. The BD4xxMx series uses state-of-the-art...
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Mazda Reaches out to High Schoolers for STEM
The engineering and race professionals from Mazda presented the nuances of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to a group of high school-age students May 27 at Martin Luther King...
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Novel Nanocatalysts for Fuel Cells
One of the biggest obstacles to widespread adoption of clean hydrogen fuel cell-powered cars and trucks is the high price and rarity of the platinum and platinum-family catalysts that the stacks need to...
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High-Strength Sheet Steel That Bends
Basic car structures have traditionally been stamped from sheet steel, but stricter fuel-economy standards have the auto industry turning increasingly to more costly alternative materials including...
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Ford Debuts Mustang Convertible and Revised Focus
Ford turned the page on the final chapter of the 50th anniversary extravaganza for the company’s signature performance car, the Mustang, when it revealed the convertible edition of the car...
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Land Rover's Discovery Vision Concept Has Real Future for 2015
The Land Rover Discovery's image is of a capably rugged vehicle with room for seven, and interior luxury that goes with its clearly premium exterior. But what makes the...
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U.K. Universities Lead R&D for Low-Cost Catalysts, Low-CO2 Combustion
Reducing the cost of catalytic converters through design, and reducing engine-out emissions using advanced turbocharging and combustion techniques, are the focus of...
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Audi's New V6 Diesel to Feature Electric Turbocharging, New NOx Technology
In the year 2030, more than 80% of newly registered cars and light trucks will still have an internal combustion engine on board and the number of diesel engines is...
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