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2017 Hyundai Ioniq Offers Three Electrified Powertrains

Hyundai unveiled the 2017 Ioniq at the Geneva Show, a car only available with an electrified powertrain. There will be three variants of the car, offering a conventional parallel...

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Unmanned Systems

Bentley's Technology Future: Stone Trim, Smaller SUV and EVs

Bentley’s design, engineering and R&D programs are expanding as never before in the company’s near 100 year history. Not satisfied with introducing the super-premium...

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Propulsion

Hybrid Variety in Off-Highway

Perhaps the most interesting point about hybrids in the off-highway market is the sheer variety of architectures and energy storage choices.

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Power

EV Charging Station

The Evr-Green charging station from Leviton delivers up to 7.7 kW of power for home and workplace. The updated device provides up to 32 A at 208 or 240 V ac (7.7 kW maximum output) and is designed with an improved...

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Energy

Driving EVs toward Lower Cost

Market penetration of electric vehicles has been limited by two significant constraints: driving range and purchase cost. These two factors are in fundamental opposition, because the most costly part of a...

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Energy

Automakers Vie for Le Mans with Different Solutions

Rulesmakers at the Automobile Club de l’Oest, the sanctioning group that conducts the annual 24 Hours of Le Mans sports car race, issued rules that took effect in 2014 mandating that...

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Motion Control

High-Performance Roto-Translating Valve for Fault-Tolerant Applications

New X-by-wire systems under study for commercial and heavy-duty vehicles such as agricultural tractors are increasingly real autonomous systems, capable of autonomously...

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Green Design & Manufacturing

Green-Lighting Ford's "Clean" Technologies

As Ford Motor Co.'s Global Director of Vehicle Electrification and Infrastructure, Michael Tinskey eats, sleeps, and breathes sustainable mobility. His small group of "clean technologists" are linked...

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Automotive

Audi’s Tunnel of Light Leads to the Future

Audi is seeing light at the end of its new research tunnel; and it is a laser. But not just any laser: this is a matrix laser that the Volkswagen brand is confident illuminates the way forward in...

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Design

Mitsubishi PHEV Concept Destined for Production?

Mitsubishi hints that the Concept XR-PHEV II unveiled at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show could be the basis of a second plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) model, following the Outlander PHEV...

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Energy

AVL Transmission Aims at Best-In-Class PHEV Performance

For its new 7-Mode transmission, AVL focused on key requirements for hybrid drivetrains including best-in-class fuel consumption in NEDC charge-sustaining mode, full drivetrain...

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Nanotechnology

Making Strides in Sustainable Transportation

A material scientist by training working on processing, manufacturing, and characterization development for advanced energy storage systems, Claus Daniel, Ph.D., organized the Lightweighting...

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Global Vehicles
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2016 Volt: GM Gives Its PHEV Longer Range, less Weight, Easier Charging

The world’s best-selling plug-in hybrid vehicle has been re-engineered from a clean sheet, on a new vehicle architecture, giving the 2016 Chevrolet Volt 30% greater...

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Electronics & Computers

Ford’s Top EV Engineer Advocates More Inclusive Charging Tech

Making electrified vehicles mainstream across all segments, while facing significant cost challenges, ever-tightening regulations, and an often fickle consumer, will continue...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Flexible, ‘Invisible’ Assembly Lines Gain Popularity

Interest in automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to convey product from one station to another on the plant floor assembly line continues to grow as manufacturers look for greater...

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Power

ECU Advances Take Many Paths

The demand for automated features and functions is prompting electronic engineers to alter their design strategies, distributing intelligence throughout the vehicle. As more electronic controls are added, the...

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Power

SAE Eye on Engineering Quick Take: Telsa Model S Troubles

Tesla Motors is learning that making trouble-free autos is no easy task. In this week's SAE Eye on Engineering, Senior Editor Lindsay Brooke looks at the American electric car maker...

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Design

Meeting the Need for Engineering Talent

Perhaps no one knows the realities of the U.S. engineering job market more than Laura Kurtz, Manager, U.S. Recruiting at Ford Motor Co. The shortage of engineers and the increased competition among...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Battery Guru: Future of 18650 Cells Unclear Beyond Tesla S

Despite Tesla Motors’ proven success with 18650-type Li-ion cells in its Model S, the industry’s best-known EV battery analyst isn’t betting that other automakers will adopt...

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