Latest Briefs and News
Top Stories
INSIDERRF & Microwave Electronics
FAA to Replace Aging Network of Ground-Based Radars
PodcastsDefense
A New Additive Manufacturing Accelerator for the U.S. Navy in Guam
NewsSoftware
Rewriting the Engineer’s Playbook: What OEMs Must Do to Spin the AI Flywheel
Road ReadyPower
2026 Toyota RAV4 Review: All Hybrid, All the Time
INSIDERDefense
F-22 Pilot Controls Drone With Tablet
INSIDERRF & Microwave Electronics
L3Harris Starts Low Rate Production Of New F-16 Viper Shield
Latest Stories
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...
News Energy
Tech – and Tariffs – Top of Mind at Tradeshows
April saw two major tradeshows take place, playing host to numerous advanced vehicle and technology reveals from global OEMs and suppliers – some of which are detailed on this site....
Q&A Power
Hydrogen Industry Vet Says Fuel Cells Still a ‘Go’
Tarek Abdel-Baset, Forvia’s chief engineer for hydrogen storage systems, has two decades of experience in alt-fuel transporation development, with all the ups and downs that entails....
News Energy
After Successful Trials, Cellcentric Moves to Build NextGen Fuel Cell for Anyone
After successful trials in Europe, the Daimler/Volvo joint venture that develops hydrogen fuel cells for heavy-duty long-haul trucks says it is preparing to...
News Connectivity
WXC 2025: GM’s Hydrotec-Based EV Charger Takes Center Stage
In 2022, General Motors announced that it was exploring commercial applications for its Hydrotec hydrogen fuel cells. Those efforts have culminated in a mobile hydrogen power...
News Energy
WCX 2025: Dumarey Launches U.S. Subsidiary for Better ICEs
The Dumarey Group used WCX 2025 as the launching point for its new U.S. subsidiary, Dumarey USA. Dumarey, a Belgian family-owned company, announced the acquisition of Mahle...
News Power
Hydrogen Is Hitting Some Headwinds
Nikola announced on February 19 that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and had begun pursuing “value-maximizing sale transactions” for its operations. Also a maker of battery-electric heavy...
Q&A Power
Propane Powers Ahead for Medium Duty Sector
The seemingly constant changing winds of North American emissions regulations have put many alternative propulsion-supplying OEMs on high alert over the first quarter of this year. However, not...
Original Equipment Green Design & Manufacturing
Kalmar Launches 3rd-Gen Electric Terminal Tractor
Electric vehicle (EV) growth may be stagnant in certain market sectors amid pushback on EV mandates along with lingering infrastructure and TCO concerns, but in terminal tractor operations...
News Energy
Hydrogen Storage Tank Options: Not Everything Need Look like a Sausage
Since the 1860 Hippomoblie, hydrogen has been a part of powered mobility. Today, most hydrogen storage applications use cylindrical tanks, but other solutions are...
News Power
A Week with the Hyundai Way
Hyundai’s recent Hyundai Way tech presentation week in Korea was, like the company’s future strategy, a cornucopia of technologies. The week included an EV-focused performance event co-sponsored with Toyota,...
News Energy
Suppliers Prepare for a Drop in EV Market Share
The already unsteady transition from fossil fuels to electrification is about to get bumpier. Just days after it became clear that Americans would be welcoming a new Republican White House...
Articles Energy
Hybrid Powertrains in the Product Mix
Perfect is the enemy of good. That aphorism embodies some of the frustrations voiced by trucking-industry companies and associations when it comes to satisfying lower greenhouse gas (GHG) and NOx...
News Transportation
CES 2025: Bosch Goes Right with Wrong-Way Alerts, Racing Hand Controls
Bosch took to CES 2025 with positive messages about its safety, accessibility and AI technologies, which it said will impact both the people who drive vehicles with its...
News Aerospace
Toyota Says Woven City Innovation Incubator Is Ready for Residents
At the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Toyota announced that it has completed phase one construction of what it calls Toyota Woven City, a full-scale area...
NASA Spinoff Green Design & Manufacturing
Scaling Up Hydrogen
The Cryostat CS900 is poised to enable widespread use of liquid hydrogen as an energy carrier, according to James Fesmire, who invented the technology for his company, Titusville, Florida-based GenH2, building on his career developing cryostats at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Read on to learn more.
News Propulsion
SwRI Rolls out Hydrogen Demonstration Truck
For decades, the running joke around hydrogen being a viable fuel for commercial trucks has been that its “ten years away from being ten years away.” Though H2-fueled rigs operating at scale...
INSIDER Aerospace
Why Hybrid-Electric is a Key Solution for Decarbonizing Aviation
The aviation sector, urged by ambitious U.S. goals to achieve net-zero aviation emissions by 2050, is poised for transformation. CO2 is responsible for most anthropogenic...
Q&A Propulsion
Shell Details Upcoming Engine-Oil Developments
Shell Rotella hosted journalists at the National Tractor Pulling Championships in Bowling Green, Ohio, in August, where the company was sponsoring tractors run by Koester Racing in the...
Briefs Power
Anode-Free Sodium Solid-State Battery
A team has created the world’s first anode-free sodium solid-state battery. This research has brought the reality of inexpensive, fast-charging, high-capacity batteries for electric vehicles and grid storage closer than ever. Read on to learn more.
News Transportation
Truck OEMs Invested in Infrastructure
Truck manufacturers have not sat idly by as charging infrastructure continues to lag behind the growing availability of battery-electric commercial vehicles. Take for example Daimler Truck North...
INSIDER Propulsion
Modern Commercial Jets Create Longer Living Contrails Than Older Aircraft, Study Finds
Modern commercial aircraft flying at high altitudes create longer-lived planet-warming contrails than older aircraft, a new study has found.
News Energy
Volvo Hits Milestones for Autonomous Trucks and Electrified Off-Highway Machine
Volvo made several key announcements at the 2024 ACT Expo in Las Vegas. The company also reaffirmed its goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions with a 100%...
Technical Innovation Energy
Hexagon Agility Partners with Brudeli for Hybrid CNG Truck Powertrains
Hexagon Agility announced a collaboration with Norwegian EV transmission supplier Brudeli Green Mobility at the 2024 ACT Expo in Las Vegas. The partnership’s goal is...
Articles Energy
FirstElement Opens America’s First High-Volume, Fast-Fill Hydrogen Station for HD Trucks
It may be missing the food and hospitality trappings of what most would consider a proper “truck stop,” but the nation’s first high-volume,...
Executive Viewpoints Manned Systems
Hexagon Bullish on CNG for Long-Haul Trucks
Though some OEMs have signaled that the end of the ICE age is nigh, reports of the combustion engine’s death as the backbone of the commercial-trucking industry are greatly exaggerated....
Executive Viewpoints Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Volvo Charts Its Path Towards Zero Emissions
Volvo Trucks is betting on themselves to reach the aggressive goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. The company is taking an almost fanatical approach to its emissions reduction targets in...
Technical Innovation Energy
Fuel Cell Production Spurs Supplier Opportunities
The head of General Motors’ global fuel-cell business is bullish about ongoing opportunities for suppliers in the emerging hydrogen-power space, as GM and partner Honda Motor Co. began...
News Energy
Daimler and Linde Announce Liquid-Hydrogen Refueling Technology
Daimler Truck and Linde Engineering recently announced sLH2, a jointly developed refueling technology for subcooled liquid hydrogen. The companies claim that subcooled liquid...
Webcasts
Automotive
Hydrogen Engines Are Heating Up for Heavy Duty
Power
SAE Automotive Podcast: Solid-State Batteries
Automotive
SAE Automotive Engineering Podcast: Additive Manufacturing
Aerospace
A New Approach to Manufacturing Machine Connectivity for the Air Force
Software
Optimizing Production Processes with the Virtual Twin
