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Denso Bringing Driver Monitoring to Commercial-Vehicle Market
According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), 4,440 large trucks and buses were involved in fatal accidents in 2016—a 29% increase since 2009. Driver...
News Regulations/Standards
ADAS Features Expand Role, V2V Looms
Truck owners and commercial-vehicle suppliers are ramping up their safety efforts, making more advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) standard while looking at the potential benefits of...
News Energy
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...
News Unmanned Systems
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....
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
MTU Training Facility Helps Keep Complex Engines up and Running
Today’s commercial engines are more reliable, fuel efficient, and powerful than ever. However, capability means complexity.
Articles Semiconductors & ICs
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...
News Manned Systems
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...
News Propulsion
SwRI: CHEDE Consortium Closing in on 55% HD Diesel-Engine Efficiency
A multi-client research-and-development consortium led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to develop heavy-duty diesel engines that demonstrate 55% engine-system brake...
News Connectivity
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 Energy
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.
News Automotive
Bobcat Launches R Series Mini Excavators at Intermat
Bobcat, a division of the Doosan Group, has launched the R Series range of 2-4 tonne mini excavators at the Intermat exhibition in Paris in April. The machines are said to deliver...
News Software
Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality Transform Heavy-Vehicle Engineering
Augmented, mixed and virtual reality (AR, MR and VR) are everywhere. Over the past 12-18 months the number of new devices and apps being released has risen...
Technical Innovation Test & Measurement
Engineers at Cape Optimize Test-rig Performance for Roof-crush Testing
Evaluating how school buses and other commercial vehicles perform in crash-test scenarios is regular practice at the Center for Advanced Product Evaluation (CAPE) in...
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...
Executive Viewpoints AR/AI
Volvo CE Pursues AI for Operator-Assist Functions on Path to Full Automation
While true machine learning employed in fully automated vehicles and equipment—where algorithms trained by data become brain-like, gaining skills such as pattern...
News Electronics & Computers
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...
News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
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 Transportation
Member Profile: Girish Parvate-Patil of Caterpillar
Girish Parvate-Patil, works for Caterpillar Inc. as an Engineering Team Leader on marine propulsion systems. He is accountable for overall leadership and direction on engineering-related...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
IAV Using 3D Printed Pistons for Engine Testing
Engineering services specialist IAV is using 3D printed parts to shorten engine development timelines.
Original Equipment Manned Systems
JCB Reveals New Crawler Excavators, Fully Electric Mini Excavator
Global construction, agricultural and industrial equipment manufacturer JCB is meeting the current upturn in demand for machinery with the launch of a host of new and updated...
News Electronics & Computers
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 Unmanned Systems
‘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...
Original Equipment Manned Systems
Medium, Light Duty Truck Markets Heat Up
A host of new light- and medium-duty truck rollouts are increasing competition and giving vocational truck customers a broader range of options. OEMs are focused on improving customer comfort and...
News Manned Systems
Shell, Airflow Truck Debut Hyper-Fuel-Efficient Class 8 Concept Truck
Shell and AirFlow Truck Company partnered to design a hyper-fuel-efficient Class 8 concept truck capable of reducing the energy usage associated with the transportation...
News Automotive
Mahindra Automotive Debuts First North American Off-Road Vehicle
Although it derives from the Mahindra Thar on-road vehicle sold in India and elsewhere in Asia, the Roxor is strictly an off-road vehicle for North America.
News Power
Mercedes-Benz Bills 3rd-Gen Sprinter as First Holistic Mobility Solution
Mercedes-Benz has taken the wraps off its third-generation Sprinter light commercial vehicle, offering increased versatility, reduced operating costs and new levels of...
Articles Green Design & Manufacturing
SuperTruck REDUX
In fall of 2016, truck makers that participated in the first five-year phase of the SuperTruck program made like the Blues Brothers and “put the band back together” for phase two of the U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored initiative. Read on to learn more.
Articles Power
Electrification Not a One-Size-Fits-All Solution
Some electrification efforts in the off-highway in dustry have been quite successful, yet others still need either time to catch on or may just flat-out not be suited for electrification. It is not an across-the-board solution, nor does it necessarily need to be one. Read on to learn more.
News Energy
ChemSEI-Linker Extends Lithium Battery Life, Increases EV Range
New technologies continue to push the boundaries of battery technology. As electrification becomes more prevalent in the heavy-duty and off-highway industries, battery...
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