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Bosch Electrohydraulic Steering Advances Driver Assistance
Bosch’s Servotwin electrohydraulic steering system is an enabler for driver-assistance technology and a “building block” for future automation. It offers speed-based steering...
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Advanced Simulation Techniques Drive Powertrain Design
Commercial vehicle designers are using a variety of simulation and validation tools as they attempt to find new ways to improve many aspects of vehicle design. Engineers are working...
Articles Transportation
Deutz Equips Telehandlers with Hybrid and Fully Electric Powertrains
Deutz, which has produced internal combustion engines for more than a century, is moving quickly to integrate electric power with its mainstay diesel engines. Only a year...
News Transportation
Mercedes Doubles down on Electric Vans, Considers Fuel Cells
As the demonization of diesel continues across much of Europe, manufacturers are rushing to introduce a range of options to power tomorrow’s delivery vehicles. While petrol...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Many ICE Paths Lead to Reduced Emissions
Despite all the hype about electrification, internal combustion engines (ICEs) are likely to dominate the commercial vehicles market for several years. But these engines will have to advance using an...
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Toyota Launches Second-Gen Fuel-Cell Class 8
At a late-July auto-industry conference in Michigan, Toyota revealed the second generation of its Project Portal prototype Class 8 heavy-duty truck driven electrically from fuel-cell power. The...
Articles Manned Systems
Disruptive Tech Promotes Paradigm Shift at Traditional Manufacturers
Add one more role to Troy Clarke’s already-extensive title at Navistar: Chairman, President, CEO—and Chief Business Anthropologist. “I see that as one of my most...
Original Equipment Energy
eCitaro to Replace Conventional City Buses
Based on the proven Citaro platform but incorporating design elements from the Mercedes-Benz Future Bus concept, the new eCitaro is poised to almost completely replace city buses powered by a combustion engine in just a few years.
Technical Innovation Green Design & Manufacturing
Emissions Reductions Continue to Disrupt CV Industry
As the automotive and commercial vehicle (CV) industries expand from being dominated by a single powertrain to a multitude of power and fuel options, disruption is propelling change to...
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The Case for 48V in Commercial Vehicles
Higher voltage architectures allow for more efficient power generation and distribution, according to Jim Bevan, Mechatronics Power Systems Manager for Daimler Trucks North America. “Making this...
Articles Energy
Starship Road Trip
Dubbed the Starship Initiative, the collaboration between Shell and AirFlow Truck Co. on the Starship Class 8 concept truck achieved 178.4 ton-mpg for freight ton efficiency (FTE) in a recent cross-country drive, a nearly...
Articles Data Acquisition
Big Data and Next-Gen Prognostics for Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Diagnostics have been around for a long time and are well understood and standardized. Huge amounts of diagnostic data have piled up over the years; fortunately, the data is machine...
News Energy
Deutz Advances ‘E’ Strategy—prototypes on the Horizon
Deutz previously had indicated that alternative drives will play an increasingly important role in its core segments in the future. Taking the next step in that direction, the...
Editorial Unmanned Systems
Intelligence Drives Efficiency, Safety and Uptime of Commercial Vehicles
Several leaders of global commercial-vehicle manufacturers converged in mid-July for a press workshop to discuss the most pressing technological, logistical and...
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AxleTech Develops Electric Independent Suspension Concept for Vehicles Up to 58,000-lb GCWR
Intended for a range of vehicle types — full battery electric vehicles, fuel cell range-extender EVs, and internal combustion engine or turbine generator range extenders — the 5000 Series electric independent suspension axle system (eISAS) recently revealed by AxleTech serves as a complete electric powertrain.
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Eaton Creates EMobility Business to Meet Electrified Technology Demand
Eaton has combined products, expertise and global manufacturing capabilities from its Electrical and Vehicle businesses to form a new eMobility business tasked to...
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Mentor Design Tool Simplifies J1939 Development
The explosion of electronic functions on commercial vehicles is driving an expansion of vehicle networks, making network design and configuration an important factor in electronic...
Technology Report Propulsion
Eaton Goes Internal with Its Next-Generation EGR Solution
Eaton’s Internal Exhaust Gas Recirculation (iEGR) solution production-debuts in the 2020MY as a next-generation technology providing near-instantaneous heating of the selective...
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Daimler Shows It's Serious About Electric and Automated Truck Development
The recent flurry of electric truck reveals continues, this time in the Pacific Northwest at Daimler Trucks North America's (DTNA) headquarters in Portland, Oregon....
Executive Viewpoints Design
Bosch Stresses Need for E/E Architecture Upgrade
Bosch is hardly an unfamiliar name to the heavy truck and off-highway industries—the supplier has been a major player in the diesel and hydraulics spaces for quite some time. But two years...
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Mecalac Targets Building Sites in Cities for Fully-Electric E12 Excavator
With a focus on developing and manufacturing construction equipment for urban environments, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Mecalac plans to begin production...
Executive Viewpoints Energy
Schneider Continues Zero-Emission Goal at Nikola
The demand for zero-emission transportation continues to rise around the world as countries like Germany and China begin to examine the prospect of banning internal-combustion-engine vehicle...
Technical Innovation Green Design & Manufacturing
Navistar's Latest SuperTruck Features Emerson's Electric HVAC
An innovative Emerson electric HVAC system provides more cooling capacity than the prior 48-volt system on Navistar’s CatalIST high-efficiency demonstration commercial truck.
Executive Viewpoints Transportation
Diesel Isn’t Dead
Comparing the perception of the internal combustion engine’s imminent demise to the plot of an Edgar Allan Poe short story is an effective attention-getter. Dr. Kelly Senecal, owner and Vice President of Convergent...
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Nano-Based Ultracap Tech Boosts EV Power Density
French nanomaterials specialist NAWA Technologies is aiming to bring a new dimension to the automotive industry’s use of the word “hybrid.” It is aiming to link high efficiency new...
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Volvo Trucks Accelerates Electric Truck Debuts
Volvo Trucks recently unveiled two full electric trucks, in separate ceremonies in Gothenburg, Sweden and in Hamburg, Germany, within three weeks’ time. The company launched the two-axle...
News Green Design & Manufacturing
Waste Heat Recovery Issues, Challenges to Be Discussed at SAE Symposium
The challenges of climate change and energy security require a continuous effort toward reduction of global environmental pollution and fossil oil consumption. To meet...
Editorial Transportation
‘Heavy’ Topics on Tap for WCX18
Another April, another SAE World Congress Experience—the organization’s flagship event (wcx18.org). A time when global mobility experts descend on Cobo Hall in Detroit to share insights and...
Articles Energy
TARDEC Pursues Advanced Power Generation
In the middle of a desert or other remote military zone, advanced power generation can keep the U.S. Army’s ground vehicles and combat support equipment ready for the demands of duty.
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