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How Porsche Met Cooling Challenges on the New 4-Cylinder Boxster
New engines always bring fresh design and engineering challenges, but Porsche’s switch to a turbocharged flat 4-cylinder for the latest generation 718 Boxster created one...
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2017 Audi Q2 Design Inspired by American Football
Audi unveiled the 2017 Q2, its smallest SUV to date, at the 2016 Geneva Show. Riding on VW Group's MQB modular architecture and fitting into the company’s Q-series SUV models below the Q3,...
Product Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Miniature Relief Valve
The Lee Company’s miniature, poppet-style pressure relief valve provides a faster opening rate and more stable flow than typical ball-style relief valves. Measuring 5.5 mm (0.2 in) in diameter and 19 mm (0.75 in)...
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Image Recognition Processor
The TMPV7602XBG image recognition processor from Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. is suitable for monocular cameras used in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and will help designers implement...
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Impairment Noise Generator
A solution from Spirent Communications will help reduce the development time and cost of automotive Ethernet/BroadR-Reach (BRR) systems. The AING-5000 automotive impairment noise generator reduces the cost of...
Product Briefs Software
Integrated Open Development Platform
The Integrated and Open Development Platform (IODP) from AVL features the first integration product, Model.CONNECT. Designed around the system requirements, this platform can be applied in a range of...
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Multi-material Structures Move mpg Upward
Multi-material vehicles are nothing new. Aluminum, plastics, and other “exotic” materials have long joined steel in the material mix of road-going cars and trucks, notably in powertrain and...
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Cars Poised to Become ‘A Thing’
The Internet of Things (IoT) will be the next transformational aspect of connectivity, enabling machines to communicate with each other without human intervention. Autos are becoming a major player in...
Articles Automotive
Agility Training for Cars
As personal mobility moves toward the perhaps inevitable singularity of automatically piloted pods able to totally isolate passengers from any sensation of the surrounding world, today’s manually piloted cars are adding systems to aid with guidance and improve isolation from bumps in the road. Read on to learn more.
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Secondary Loop and Heat Pump Climate Control Under Evaluation Once More
Is secondary loop climate control about to make an engineering splash? It got a close look for A/C when the industry was considering low-global-warming alternatives to...
Product Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
IGBT Module
Fuji Electric has introduced its 7th generation IGBT (insulated-gate bipolar transistor) modules featuring advanced chip and package technologies for industrial applications, uninterruptible power supplies, and power conditioning...
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SAE Standards Point Way to Service of R-1234yf Systems
The automotive air-conditioning industry changeover to low global warming R-1234yf involves a lot more than new fittings and a more robust evaporator to prevent leakage of the...
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EPA's 2021 A/C Refrigerant Rules Accelerate R-1234yf Changeover
The industry transition to a low global-warming-potential (GWP) air conditioning refrigerant, already underway in Europe, moves into high gear in the U.S., as CAFE (Corporate...
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GKN Puts Electric-Drive TV System for 2019 on Ice
GKN Driveline systems integration engineer Rainer Brüning was a little disappointed.
Technology Report Manufacturing & Prototyping
3D-Printed High-Temperature Ceramics
Heat-resistant ceramics are useful for making components such as engine hot parts, rocket nozzles, and nose cones that have to contend with high temperatures or extreme environments. The trouble is...
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Mainstreaming Hybrids and EVs
Will the inefficiency of the automobile ultimately doom the automobile? Big questions like this one, posed by Ford Technical Fellow Dr. Michael Tamor, hit February’s SAE Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Symposium...
Technology Report Electronics & Computers
OTA Reflashing: The Challenges and Solutions
Reprogrammable onboard modules have been in automotive use for more than a quarter century. But as electronic controls inhabit virtually every system today, anyone with a late-model vehicle knows...
Q&A Electronics & Computers
Controlling GM’s Electrified Herd
As General Motors proliferates electrified powertrain applications among its brands, it is also rapidly commonizing those systems as much as possible. Witness the 2016 Chevrolet Volt and Malibu Hybrid; both...
News Automotive
GM Rechristens Powertrain Unit as ‘Global Propulsion Systems’
In its latest break from its storied but perceptually stodgy past, General Motors has renamed its Powertrain division—since 1992 the unit responsible for design,...
Global Vehicles Transportation
2017 Nissan Armada Steps onto Patrol Platform
No longer sharing its platform with the Titan full-size pickup truck, the all-new 2017 Nissan Armada full-size SUV is now attached to one of the automaker's most iconic nameplates that...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Automakers and Suppliers Crank up Their Interest in Electric Bikes
Automakers and Tier 1s are expanding their view of transportation and its potential profit centers. They're rolling out battery-powered electric bicycles that let drivers...
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Nissan Readies Light-Duty Version of Titan Pickup
At February’s Chicago auto show, Nissan revealed the 2017 light-duty (half-ton) version of the Titan pickup as the promised follow-up to the 2016 Titan XD quasi-commercial model that...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Powering up the New Stop-Start Systems
As stop-start systems gain acceptance in North America, a range of technologies including lithium ion batteries, ultracapacitors, and 48-V "mild hybrid" systems are under consideration to handle the...
News Transportation
Volvo's New Plug-In XC90 Is Really a Tri-Motor
Unusually for an OEM, Volvo Cars is being a bit modest about its new XC90 plug-in hybrid, describing it as the T8 Twin Engine. But technically the 2016 PHEV is, in aerospace parlance, a...
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Kia's 2017 Niro Hybrid CUV Targets Sub-90 G/km CO2 Emissions
A novel hybrid-electric powertrain debuting on the 2017 Kia Niro subcompact CUV targets sub-90 g/km CO2 emissions and combined highway/city 50 mpg fuel economy.
Product Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Composite Cooling Circuit Parts
Cooling circuit parts installed by automotive manufacturers consist of a direct composite comprising the special polyphthalamide (PPA) VESTAMID HTplus R1033 by the Resource Efficiency segment of Evonik, and a...
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3D-Viewing of CAD Models
KISTERS has released version 2016 of its 3DViewStation Desktop, which features modern user-interface, high-performance 3D-viewing, advanced analysis, and digital mockup (DMU). 3DViewStation ships with current and...
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2017 Pacifica Is First Hybrid Minivan, Rides on All-New FCA Platform
Despite the popularity of SUVs and CUVs, nothing beats a minivan for its combination of interior flexibility, ingress/egress, passenger comfort, cargo hauling and, in some...
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