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SAE Battery Standards Committees Prepare for Next-Gen Chemistries
“We’re just at the beginning of a steep growth curve for both electric vehicles and energy storage, and SAE International is going to play a huge role in that by setting...
Global Vehicles Propulsion
Volvo S90: Niche for Now, But…
It’s no secret the reconstituted Volvo, since 2010 owned by China’s Zhejiang Geely, is doing interesting and innovative things—one of the most intriguing, maybe, being that it’s survived and in some...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
NanoSteel Confident Its New AHSS Is Ready for Volume Production
Steel-technology development specialist NanoSteel is expanding its customer base for the new advanced high-strength alloys currently undergoing testing by OEMs and Tier 1s, as...
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With 2017 Fusion Sport, Ford Pushes Further Toward Audi
Nobody’s ever had much trouble liking the slinky look and agreeable driving dynamics of Ford’s Fusion midsize sedan since the second-generation model was launched for the 2013...
Product Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Power Connector Line
Able to withstand harsh environments, Positronic’s (Springfield, MO) new power connector family provides IP65/IP67 sealing capability. According to the company, the new Panther line of rugged electronic connectors is the...
Product Briefs Propulsion
DEF Tank Drain Solution
A full stainless-steel version of EZ Drain Valve from Global Sales Group (Redmond, WA), the manufacturer of the EZ Oil Drain Valve, is now available for diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) tank applications. Unlike a plastic...
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The Evolving Tire-Development Paradigm
Engineers working in today’s vehicle-development environment are faced with a unique challenge in relation to prototype vehicles: the cost of constructing prototypes and assemblies limits their...
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Jaguar Land Rover Constructs Slovakian Manufacturing Plant to Support 'A Truly Global Business'
Construction has started on a new Jaguar Land Rover manufacturing facility in Nitra, Slovakia. According to the company, the 300,000 m²...
News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Anti-Friction Coating
Dow Corning Corp. (Midland, MI) offers a new silver-metallic color for a proven Molykote brand anti-friction coating (AFC) to enhance design options for reducing friction, noise and wear on various automotive components. According to Dow, the new silver-colored Molykote D-709 anti-friction coating offers the same...
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SAE Survey: Mobility Engineers Getting Younger
SAE International recently released the results of its 2016 Mobility Engineering Professionals Salary Survey that also includes an interactive online Salary Calculator. Among the survey's key...
Product Briefs Materials
Non-Hazardous Specialty Polymers
EpoxySet Inc. (Lincoln, RI) has released SetWORX specialty polymers, a line of high-performance materials. According to the company, SetWORX was developed to be non-hazardous for shipping, therefore reducing...
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Volkswagen Engineer Pleads Guilty in U.S. Diesel-Emissions Coverup
A veteran Volkswagen AG engineer pleaded guilty in federal court to a criminal charge for his involvement in the German automaker’s ongoing diesel-emissions scandal,...
News Green Design & Manufacturing
Creating a ‘Green’ Value Stream with LPPD
James Morgan, Ph.D, is a senior advisor for lean product and process development at the Lean Enterprise Institute. A former global director of Body Exterior, Safety, and Stamping Engineering at...
News Automotive
Mazda's 2017 G-Vectoring Control Brings Dynamic Refinement
Spend time with Mazda's talented vehicle-dynamics engineers as they fine-tune a new model before production release and you may hear the Japanese term jinba ittai—the concept of...
News Electronics & Computers
Insurers Look to Partner with OEMs, App Providers to Meet Connected-Car Challenges
The connected car’s emergence is as disruptive for insurance companies as it is for automakers. Usage based insurance (UBI) holds a major role in future...
News Transportation
Citroën to Unveil CXperience Concept at 2016 Paris Show
Having shrugged off the inhibiting effects of conventional design that took it into the category of the mundane for many years, PSA Citroën’s latest demonstration of its original...
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Digital Factory Solution for Smart Manufacturing
With FASTSUITE Edition 2, CENIT (Auburn Hills, MI) provides an efficient Digital Factory solution for smart manufacturing. The latest generation of CENITs’ universal software platform, which...
News Test & Measurement
Signal Analyzer Software Upgrade
To speed up noise and vibration data analysis for vehicle manufacturers and industrial machinery, Brüel & Kjær (Norcross, GA) offers RT Pro 7.3 enhanced software for its Photon signal analyzer. The RT...
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Foam-Fill Simulation of Polyurethane Systems
BASF (Florham Park, NJ) offers an additional service for polyurethane (PU) systems in automotive interiors. The Ultrasim simulation tool has been expanded so that the behavior of PU systems during...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Miniature Pressure Sensor
Model ASUH miniature hybrid high-integrity pressure transducer from KA Sensors (Danbury, CT) is designed for use in rugged environments from -65 to +300ºF (-54 to +149ºC) and vibration levels of more than 20 g. Its...
Technology Report Propulsion
Inside Porsche's New V8 and V6 Powertrains
Porsche broke a “golden rule” of automotive engineering when it began development of the second generation Panamera: Never develop a new car, a new powertrain and a new factory simultaneously....
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Digital Reference Images for Die Castings
As a new option, YXLON (Hamburg, Germany) provides ASTM E2973 digital reference images for aluminum and magnesium die castings in its imaging software Image2500 and Image3500 of X-ray inspection...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Inside the Autonomous Vehicle
As self-driving technology eventually becomes reliable and safe, the role of the human driver will change dramatically. Instead of acting as a full-time operator, the driver will become a part-time operator...
Articles Regulations/Standards
Solving the GHG Puzzle
When the U.S. EPA published its Technical Assessment Report (TAR) draft in July on how well the auto industry is meeting federal fuel economy mandates, as a prelude to the Mid-Term Evaluation of the 2022-2025 national...
Global Vehicles Automotive
2017 FiatChrysler: More Dodge Muscle, Fewer Fiat Models
At a mid-summer media program to reveal its 2017 model lineup, nobody from FiatChrysler Automobiles said anything about some fizzy rumors speculating the company might have engineered...
Product Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Electric Vacuum Pump for Brake Systems
HELLA’s electrically driven vacuum pump for vehicle brake systems is designed to provide on-demand brake-system vacuum for high-efficiency gasoline engines, diesels and turbo- and super-charged...
News Electronics & Computers
Thumbs up for Gesturing with Time-Of-Flight Cameras?
Time-of-flight (ToF) cameras are ready to let drivers control some of the many options of today’s infotainment systems with a mere wave of their hand. ToF-based systems can also monitor...
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Delphi Launches Driverless Pilot Program in Singapore, Aims for Level 4 Operation by 2019
Delphi Automotive on August 1 announced an extensive autonomous-vehicle pilot program in Singapore, aimed at demonstrating cloud-based fully automated...
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