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AV Life After Argo AI
The recent shuttering of Argo AI, one of the autonomous-vehicle industry’s leading tech companies, by Ford and Volkswagen might come as a surprise to commuters in San Francisco and in Phoenix, Arizona. Those who...

Articles Manned Systems
Navistar’s ‘Ground Up’ Approach to All-New Diesel Engine
Though electrification has taken center stage for the commercial trucking industry, diesel ICE powertrains will continue to serve as the preferred propulsion system of many...

News Power
Hub-Motoring in Lordstown’s Novel Endurance
“It’s been exciting to create a new vehicle from the ground up,” Chi Yip, Lordstown Motors’ director of vehicle integration, asserted from the passenger seat, as we accelerated onto...

News Sensors/Data Acquisition
Steering Toward Full Vehicle Autonomy
The vision of fully autonomous vehicles (SAE Levels 4 and 5) is fast approaching. Making this vision a reality requires automotive OEMs to move beyond the current levels of vehicle autonomy to...

News Software
Going the Last Mile
Pizza is a subject that puts a smile on most faces but for Matteo Del Sorbo, the delight extends far beyond the actual pie.

News Manned Systems
Autonomous Transit Bus Nears Its First Year of Operation
Since May 2022, Michigan State University students, faculty and staff have been able to ride within campus boundaries on an autonomous electric bus, one of the largest...

Technical Innovation Power
ZF, Freudenberg Developing Integrated Fuel-Cell and E-Drive System
Although there were new commercial vehicles on display at this year’s IAA Transportation staged at the Hanover Messe Fairground in Germany, it was electric drive...

News Power
May Mobility Starts ADA-Compliant AV Transit for Rural Area
Automated-driving system developer May Mobility confirmed in late September that it launched what it called the first public-transit project to deploy American Disability Act...

News Manned Systems
Freightliner’s Medium-Duty Makeover
Circling the highway loop at the American Center for Mobility in Ypsilanti, Michigan, the enhancements Freightliner engineers made to the new Plus series medium-duty and vocational trucks are...

News Software
Unzipping the Future of Sustainable Electronics
Electronic-systems designers are facing a serious reckoning: How to significantly reduce the environmental impact of more and more electronic content in new vehicles?

News Software
Eaton Debuts All-In-One Power Distribution for EVs
Destruction avoidance is one of the chief duties of Eaton’s battery disconnect unit (BDU) for light-duty passenger EVs. “A short circuit event in a typical battery electric vehicle...

Articles Connectivity
Securing CAN Networks in Commercial Vehicles
Commercial road vehicles are the backbone of the modern consumer economy. Almost any business from construction, to energy, to online retail at some point relies on the delivery of goods by...

Editorial Unmanned Systems
Platooning Still Promising for Trucking
There is “no business case” for platooning, or the electronic coupling of two or more trucks in close formation. That was the assessment of Daimler Trucks in 2019 when it decided to pause its...

Technical Innovation Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Rexroth Takes Aim at Electrification for Off-Highway Vehicles
Bosch Rexroth recently invited SAE Media to attend EMPAC, their Electrified Mobile Product & Application Conference in Schaumburg, Illinois. The show featured many of...

News Energy
Hyliion, Cummins Collaborate on Electric and NG Range-Extender
A recent market report found that nearly 85% of the almost 250 U.S.-based transportation fleets surveyed plan to grow their use of clean-vehicle technologies over the next...

Articles Connectivity
Deere Advances In-Field Autonomy
John Deere got “really serious” about autonomy in 2019, according to Joe Liefer, senior product manager of autonomy at John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group. Three years later – after forming an...

Q&A Connectivity
Allison Advances Commercial-Vehicle Electronic Controls
Allison Transmission continues to invest in and accelerate its electric-vehicle propulsion solutions, but it also remains committed to its conventional product portfolio, which the...

News Design
Data Boom Drives Bosch to 10,000 Software Engineers in 2022
Ten thousand. That’s how many software engineers Bosch plans to hire worldwide in 2022. The Tier 1 giant needs software specialists as electrified, automated and connected...

News Connectivity
Bosch Tunes Its Business to Face Mobility’s Challenges
Components and systems that make up the heart of combustion-engine powertrains have long reigned as a major profit center for Bosch, and the company’s commitment to sustaining...

News Connectivity
Wireless Road Charging for EVs to Debut in 2023
Roadway-embedded wireless charging for electric vehicles is coming to a stretch of urban highway in Detroit, marking a pilot-program first on a U.S. public road. “Our electric vehicle...

News Power
Funding, Mandates Fuel Commercial-Vehicle Electrification
Government funding and electrification mandates are providing strong tailwinds for electric vehicle (EV) suppliers. But to optimize their transitions, fleet operators will have...

Original Equipment Energy
ACT Expo 2022 Roundup: Bollinger, Hyundai and Volvo Clean-Vehicle Updates
If there was any doubt that zero-emission work trucks are coming – and, really, there isn’t – the 2022 ACT Expo made it abundantly clear they’re on their...

News Connectivity
Aftermarket Augments Off-Highway Autonomous Efforts
Continually transformed with more than a century’s advances in capabilities, hydraulics and fuel efficiency, today’s heavy mobile equipment must also become more intelligent and...

Editorial Manned Systems
Alternative Fuels, Propulsion Poised for Growth in U.S. Fleets
Fuel prices are soaring. Not breaking news, I know, yet the almost-daily alerts citing new record highs for gasoline and diesel prices are still unsettling. Consumers and...

Technical Innovation Communications
WAVE Inductive Charging Purpose-Built for Large EVs
The largest all-electric transit bus fleet in the U.S. serves as a vivid example of commercial vehicles ditching diesel fill-ups. “WAVE’s wireless charging solution is...

News Unmanned Systems
SAE WCX 2022: Vehicles Are the Gateway to Data, Data, and More Data
The mobility ecosystem is bursting with data from the passenger vehicles, buses, ride-share vehicles, delivery vans, and other transportation modes using driver assist...

Technical Innovation Green Design & Manufacturing
Lightning EMotors Announces EChassis for Commercial EVs
Lightning eMotors has announced the availability of the Lightning eChassis platform for commercial EV applications. The platform, which was co-developed with Metalsa, will be...

News Automotive
Purdue Prototypes New EV Fast-charge Cable
A new charging station cable designed by a Purdue University research team could enable an electric vehicle (EV) battery to be recharged in under five minutes, comparable to filling an average...

Technical Innovation Sensors/Data Acquisition
Precision Tech the ‘Backbone’ to CNH’s Digital Strategy
When CNH Industrial executives stressed at its recent Capital Markets Day that the company is fast-advancing its offerings in precision technology and accelerating autonomous...

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