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Gearing Up Drive Axle Innovations
Tier 1 driveline systems supplier American Axle & Manufacturing currently has Quantum, its all-new family of lightweight beam axles with aluminum center housing, in customer evaluations. AE asked AAM's Jeffrey Nichols to explain the NASA technology inside the Quantum "pumpkin."
Articles Automotive
A Lesson in Multiphysics
Modeling and simulation are becoming a more critical factor in automotive design, particularly in subjective areas like passenger-cabin sound quality and complex newer technologies like battery management.
Articles Power
Pickup Shocker!
Rivian founder and CEO R.J. Scaringe isn’t claiming he’s developed the formula for cold fusion, but it’s possible he’s found the formula to make electric vehicles truly resonate with mainstream America.
What We’re Driving Transportation
2019 Toyota Avalon Hybrid
The new Avalon, Toyota’s most “American” car, is a car that feels larger inside than it is. It’s stable and feels planted on the road. It’s a great highway cruiser.
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The Navigator: The Not-So-Hidden Cost of “Free”
There is no such thing as a free lunch, as the old truism goes. For more than a century, the auto industry business model has been to sell it and forget it. Once you drove off the lot in...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Shifting Focus to Rising Costs
Welcome to 2019, a new year that’s already brimming with challenges for mobility-industry suppliers. As they deal with escalating technology investments, unpredictable product-launch cadences, an influx of...
News Unmanned Systems
J3016 Automated-Driving Graphic Update
SAE International recently unveiled a new visual chart (below, and in gallery) that is designed to clarify and simplify its J3016 “Levels of Driving Automation” standard for consumers. The J3016...
Road Ready Test & Measurement
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...
What We’re Driving Mechanical & Fluid Systems
What We’re Driving: Mercedes-AMG E 53 4Matic+
Select “Sport+”, floor the gas pedal, listen to the engine and exhaust notes, and the essence of Mercedes-AMG’s latest E 53 sedan is sensationally clear. But shouldn’t this combo be...
Road Ready Energy
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...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
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...
News Electronics & Computers
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...
What We’re Driving Imaging
2018 Lexus LS500
The Lexus flagship’s design may not appeal universally, but it’s hard to argue the addition of the F SPORT package’s extra bodywork tweaks impart a more assertive presence that also seems to bring better flow to this...
News Energy
2018 LA Auto Show, Nissan Futures Showcase Mobility’s Next Phases
The next decade will likely see an explosion of ‘what-if’ scenarios for personal mobility. It’s also likely that many of today’s visions will materialize in a...
Technology Report AR/AI
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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2018 Los Angeles Auto Show: Hyundai Unveils the 2020 Palisade Midsize SUV as Its Flagship
The three-row 2020 Hyundai Palisade is the brand’s biggest SUV yet, providing more passenger room and more thermal-management performance to handle...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Porsche Practices the Art of Updating with the Eighth-Generation 911
Regularly updating and evolving the Porsche 911’s aesthetic signature might seem an impossible task. But more than half a century after its birth, the unveiling of the...
Technology Report Connectivity
BorgWarner Demos Next-Step Electrification Components
Anyone questioning whether a substantial portion of the light-vehicle market will imminently feature some form of powertrain electrification need look no further than the product...
Articles Connectivity
Extending EV Range with AV Programming
Increasing the range of electric vehicles (EV) in a practical cost-effective way has become a primary challenge for the industry. However, current efforts to increase EVs’ market acceptance, via...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
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...
News Connectivity
For Auto Industry, Blockchain Still in Formative Phases
The automotive industry continues to ride the blockchain bandwagon, evaluating potential uses and helping develop the infrastructure for using distributed-ledger technology (DLT) in...
News Materials
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...
News Automotive
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...
News Power
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...
Articles Software
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...
News Defense
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...
News Photonics/Optics
A Chat with 2019 Toyota RAV4 Chief Engineer Yoshikazu Saeki
Yoshikazu Saeki (above) is the chief engineer for the Toyota RAV4 and Toyota Highlander. Saeki (54) joined the company in 1987 as a suspension engineer on the Land Cruiser team...
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