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Discovery Sport Introduces Evoque-Based Land Rover
Weight reduction has been an ongoing theme for Land Rover in recent years, with significant reductions for both the Land Rover Discovery and Range Rover. With the launch of the Discovery...
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Mazda Trickles out More New MX-5 Details
The new Mazda MX-5 made its first public European appearance at the 2014 Paris Motor Show, bringing a lighter car than the outgoing model, powered by a new 1.5-L gasoline engine (the U.S. and...
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Mercedes-Benz Applies Full Sport to GLA
After the sales success of the compact, front-drive-based CLA-Class sedan, Mercedes-Benz has migrated that car's platform into the hotter-selling compact crossover market with the GLA-Class, the...
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Trade-Off for Convenience of Voice Control Is Driver Distraction, Study Says
Not all hands-free technologies are alike, and poorly designed ones can increase driver distraction. That was one of the findings of an AAA Foundation for Traffic...
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Q80 Inspiration Concept Previews Future Top-Range Infiniti, New Engine Family
Continuing with design themes established with last year’s Q30 concept, the Infiniti Q80 Inspiration hybrid concept that debuted at the 2014 Paris Motor Show...
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Broader Data Sharing for Connected Transportation Will Require Widespread Collaboration
As populations in sprawling urban areas rise, commuting will become a bigger challenge. Connected cars are likely to leverage connectivity to help...
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Schaeffler Electrifies Its Fuel-Efficiency Demonstrator, Aims for 35 Mpg Combined Rating
An SUV crossover concept demonstrator developed by Schaeffler Group North America is undergoing a phase-two technology makeover, aimed at achieving a...
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Renault Applies Model-Based Systems Engineering to Dual-Clutch Transmission
Car manufacturers are facing various and sometimes contradicting constraints such as energy efficiency, high performance, driving comfort, reliability, and safety....
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Chrysler Makes Personnel Moves
Chrysler Group LLC on Oct. 7 announced two personnel moves involving manufacturing operations. Brian Harlow was appointed President–Head of NAFTA Manufacturing, replacing Mauro Pino, who was named Head of...
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VW’s Carbon-Fiber XL Sport Concept Sports Ducati V2 Motorcycle Engine
Volkswagen refers to the XL Sport concept vehicle that it revealed at the 2014 Paris Motor Show as a “sister model” of the XL1. As with most siblings, some...
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Toyota Reveals New Platform, Hybrid Powertrain in C-HR Concept
The C-HR crossover concept is an important vehicle for Toyota, demonstrating the Japanese automaker's desire for more "engaging" design. Unique styling is a key attribute for a...
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Dassault Systèmes and AKKA Partner on Driverless-Vehicle Technology (Video)
Under a long-term partnership announced Oct. 3, AKKA Technologies Group engineers will work with the company's 3DEXPERIENCE platform to develop the next generation...
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Graphene Composites for Cars
Soon after University of Manchester physicists Kostya Novoselov and Andre Geim discovered the "wonder material" graphene—one-atom-thick sheets of carbon that are a 100 times stronger and much lighter than...
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DSPACE Supplying In-Lab GPS Simulation System to DOT/NHTSA
The U. S Department of Transportation/NHTSA Vehicle Research and Test Center has commissioned dSPACE to supply an in-lab GPS simulation system. GPS simulation is used in the...
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SAE Offers Free Summary Document on Levels of Vehicle Automation
Earlier this year, SAE International published an Information Report categorizing and defining various levels of automated driving. Now it is offering a handy and free...
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Climate Control Engineers Face New CAFE Test
Automotive climate control engineers are working to wring increased efficiency not only from the refrigeration system, but from every peripheral too. Yes, there are CAFE (corporate average fuel...
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Multi-Processor Simulation
dSPACE’s SCALEXIO, the company’s latest hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) technology, is now more powerful with its new extension for a multi-processor (MP) simulation platform. With the MP extension, users can connect...
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The Next Wave of Crash Simulation
Although most vehicle crash tests are typically done at 35-40 mph (56-64 km/h), the speed at which crash simulations are run continues to accelerate. As computing speed continually improves, engineers are...
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Automotive Technology Handbook
Published by SAE International, The Evolution of Automotive Technology: A Handbook covers 125 years of the automobile—conceived as a cultural history of its technology. The book is aimed at engineering...
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Outlook for Autonomous Driving Includes Cloud
Fully autonomous vehicles are still a long ways from volume production, but R&D in this field is ramping up and expanding in many directions. A growing number of companies are focusing on...
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OEMs Planning Major Platform Consolidations by 2021, Says IHS
The industry outlook for 2021 underscores increasing engineering efficiency, with OEMs relying on fewer vehicle architectures in global markets, according to an IHS Automotive...
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Mechatronic System Production on the Uptick at Brose's Michigan Plant
A supplier of mechatronic vehicle systems has invested more than $60 million for the purchase and renovation of a 381,700-ft² (35,500-m²) plant in New Boston, MI.
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2015 VW Golf GTE Plug-In Hybrid Is a Smooth Operator
Seamless is a much used, and abused, word in the automotive industry—whether it refers to the gearshift quality of an automatic transmission, the deactivation and reactivation of...
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Ford’s Market 'Fusion' Creates Mondeo for Europe
High-technology safety systems and a very wide span of powertrains—including a new bi-turbo diesel—are two of the star aspects of Ford’s new U.S. Fusion-based Mondeo for Europe.
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Accelerating Racecar Innovation
Prior to this year’s Indianapolis 500, the 48th annual BorgWarner Louis Schwitzer Award was awarded for innovation and engineering excellence in race car design. Claiming the award, for the second time, was...
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Mercedes Shows Its Metal and Chooses Steel over Aluminum
In many areas of vehicle construction and components it has become increasingly common for automakers to shift away from steel to embrace aluminum in pursuit of reduced weight. But...
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Ethernet Audio-Video Bridging
Excelfore enables simplified audio-video interconnectivity using Ethernet audio-video bridging (AVB), which leads to lower cost and system weight for infotainment systems in vehicles. Connectivity is simplified by...
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120dB Lens for HDR Sensors
Sunex NoGhost 120-dB lenses are the first and only lenses designed, optimized, and tested for use in cameras using high dynamic range (HDR) image sensors, claims the company. With the increased dynamic range for HDR...
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