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Automotive

Harbinger Extends its Range of Medium-Duty EVs

Harbinger has unveiled the HC Series, a medium-duty commercial EV truck with an integrated range extender that aims to offer the best of both EC and ICE worlds in terms of range, uptime and payload capacity.

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Power

Turntide Cuts Time to Market for Electric Construction Equipment

A new semi-integrated axial flux EDU platform is validated and tested upfront for electric and hybrid system manufacturers.

Technical Innovation

Manned Systems

Volvo Penta Announces Latest Industrial Genset Engine

Volvo unveils the latest addition to their stationary power generation portfolio, the natural-gas fed G17 engine.

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Energy

Digital Hydraulics Increase Electric-excavator Runtime

Danfoss confirms the potential of fully digital hydraulic architectures to significantly increase energy efficiency in large battery-electric excavators.

Technical Innovation

Energy

Eberspaecher Zeliox Brings Mobile Power Supply to Off-highway Vehicles

Eberspaecher Climate Control Systems introduces the new Zeliox NEO 3600 energy management system at CONEXPO 2026.

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Power

Sony Honda Afeela Prototype 2026 Was the Easier Engineering Challenge

Sony Honda Mobility will add a larger, SUV-like EV to the Afeela family, previewed by the Prototype 2026.

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Energy

Hydrogen Engines Are Heating Up for Heavy Duty

Zero-carbon fuels are gaining momentum for hard-to-electrify mobility sectors as well as for stationary power generation. Hydrogen internal combustion engines are staking their claim as a future...

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Power

H2-ICE Is Heating Up

Zero-carbon fuels are gaining momentum for hard-to-electrify mobility sectors as well as for stationary power generation. Hydrogen internal combustion engines are staking their claim as a future pathway for long-haul trucking, heavy off-highway machines, maritime vessels, and gensets. Test your knowledge about hydrogen combustion engines in this quiz.

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Energy

2025 Altair Enlighten Awards Winners

Winners of the 13th edition of the Altair Enlighten Awards, presented in association with the Center for Automotive Research, were recognized during a ceremony at the CAR Management Briefing Seminars in...

Original Equipment

Energy

Thor Lets Campers Go Further Off Grid With Electric Embark RV

The Embark Class A RV offers less range anxiety thanks to an onboard range extender.

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Transportation

Engine Design for the Next 20 Years

Manufacturers at the forefront of sustainability efforts, who are intent on electrifying commercial trucks and off-highway machines, still see the necessity to include internal combustion engines (ICE) in...

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Transportation

First Drive: Drifting in the Electric 2027 Mercedes GLC 400

All the tech results in a vehicle doing something it shouldn't: gliding over sand. The vehicle never felt like it was about to sink into the dunes, gracefully drifting without issue.

Original Equipment

Transportation

ZM Trucks Starts Production in Fontana, California

In late August, ZM Trucks celebrated the grand opening of its U.S. headquarters and assembly facility in Fontana, California. SAE Media was in attendance for the opening ceremony, which included the U.S. debut of the ZM8 Class 4/5 truck. Read on to learn all about it.

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Green Design & Manufacturing

Q&A: AVL Addresses Path to Greater Hybridization

The powertrain landscape of the future is sure to be a mix that includes clean diesel engines and other ICE options running alternative fuels. Zero-emissions technology such as...

Technical Innovation

Manufacturing & Prototyping

The Economics of Lightweighting in Heavy-Duty Vehicles

Like those in many other industries, truck and off-highway vehicle manufacturers face the challenge of producing quality components and maintaining productive processes while also...

Technical Innovation

Electronics & Computers

Off-Highway Vehicle Electrification Surges Ahead

Thanks to the continued growth of electrified machines in the off-highway segment, DC/DC converters are rapidly becoming a crucial component in the supply chain for numerous OEMs for a wide...

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Manned Systems

Hydrogen’s Humming in Power Generation

Not long ago we covered some high-profile struggles hydrogen-technology companies had encountered, including Nikola and Hyzon both deciding to cease operations. But despite legitimate challenges,...

Technical Innovation

Electronics & Computers

SAE J3400/2 Update Brings Quicker NACS Charging

As SAE standard J3400 (also known as NACS) is being adopted by automakers and deployed on the latest EVs, the standard itself is still evolving. That latest evolution is SAE J3400/2. That...

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Power

Cummins’ X15 Is a Model of Design Efficiency

As AI and other deep-learning tools begin to help shape the transportation industry, they also bring improvements to existing technology. Modeling and simulation software has rapidly become a...

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Manned Systems

Natural Gas Infrastructure Is Scaling Fast for HD Fleets

A significant shift is transforming the heavy-duty transportation sector: the rapid advancement of natural gas and renewable natural gas (RNG).

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Power

Volvo CE Not Letting up on Electric

Volvo Construction Equipment made a big statement at Bauma 2025 by displaying an all-EV lineup and revealing a new electric articulated hauler to boot. The company has come a long way since the 2019...

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Energy

Bosch Invested in Large-Scale Metal 3D Printing

Bosch bolstered its 3D printing capabilities when it added a new metal 3D printer at its Nuremberg, Germany, plant earlier this year. The NXG XII 600 metal 3D printer from Nikon SLM Solutions...

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Transportation

Battery Innovation Key for Commercial and Off-Highway EVs

In the commercial and off-highway vehicle industry, the transition from internal combustion engines to hybrid and electric alternatives is underway. In 2024, sales of electrified...

Original Equipment

Power

Workhorse’s W56 Is the People’s Champ of Electrified Work Vans

ACT Expo 2025 had a fleet of new commercial-vehicle launches as well as displays for models already on the market. One such existing chassis was the Workhorse W56, an...

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Manned Systems

Mercedes-Benz Refurbishes ‘Like-New’ High-Voltage Batteries for Electric Trucks

Remanufacturing engines for medium- and heavy-duty trucks is nothing new to the industry. Reworking high-voltage batteries for reuse in electric trucks is...

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Design

Solving Problems and Seeking Big Ideas for Commercial Vehicles

Advancing technology to solve challenges involving regulation, compliance, autonomy, electrification, combustion engines and other areas is an obvious focus of SAE...

Articles

Power

Challenges and Opportunities of Electrifying Off-Highway Machines

The off-highway machine industry is embracing new technologies to optimize operations, specifically regarding electric and hybrid off-highway equipment. The electric...

Original Equipment

Energy

ACT Expo 2025: Heavy-Duty EVs, H2 Trucks and Tariff Talk Dominate Day One

Opening day of the ACT Expo 2025 in Anaheim, California, was a flood of product announcements and clean-fuel initiative updates. While the trucks and the technology...

Technical Innovation

Design

ACT Expo 2025: Battery Experts Fret Tariffs, Encourage Specific Designs

There’s a chaotic elephant in almost every room of the 2025 Advanced Clean Transportation Expo: Tariffs and the Trump administration’s seemingly hostile approach to environmentally friendly technology like EVs and alternative energy sources. Read on to learn more about it.