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Test & Measurement

How Test Equipment Is Evolving to Keep Up with EV Batteries

Whatever technology is employed in the future, it is clear that battery test systems will continue to adapt to keep pace with changes in EV battery technology and production. Ensuring that you choose a future proof, scalable, and capable bi-directional DC source is critical in planning for testing success today and tomorrow. Read on to learn more.

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Test & Measurement

Ensuring the Quality of EV Batteries with CT-Scan Data Analysis and Visualization

Research and development aimed at optimizing both the technology and the cost of that most expensive of EV components — the battery — continues. Not only are the makers of current batteries under pressure to produce the highest-quality product, but they may also be considering how to participate and compete in the next-generations of these key components. Read on to learn more.

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Briefs
Materials

A Triple-Layer Battery Resistant to Fire and Explosion

The triple-layer solid electrolyte features a robust middle layer that boosts the battery’s mechanical strength, while its soft outer surface ensures an excellent electrode contact, facilitating an easy movement of lithium ions. Read on to learn more.

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Power

A Quick and Easy Way to Produce Anode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries Using Microwaves

A research team led by Dr. Daeho Kim and Dr. Jong Hwan Park at the Nano Hybrid Technology Research Center of the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute has developed a groundbreaking process technology that enables ultrafast, 30-second preparation of hard carbon anodes for sodium-ion batteries, using microwave induction heating. Read on to learn more.

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Briefs
Energy

Developing Advanced Recycling Technology to Restore Spent Battery Cathode Materials

A research team has developed a novel technology for directly recycling spent cathode materials from lithium-ion batteries through a simple process that addresses the limitations of conventional recycling methods. This innovative approach restores the spent cathode to its original state. Read on to learn more.

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Products
Software

New Products

See the new products, including KULR Technology Group's NASA-certified M35A battery cells; Nexperia's 650 V, 10 A silicon carbide (SiC) Schottky diode; Rotor Clip's patented InterShim™ Wave Spring design; and more.

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Road Ready
Energy

2025 Toyota 4Runner: Capable Across the Lineup

The sixth-generation 4Runner, Toyota’s serious and accessible off-roader, is built at the Tahara Plant in Japan. That’s important because Tahara is also where Toyota builds the Land...

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Materials

Accelerating Materials Development with Quantum Computing

As most engineers pursue ways to improve material properties such as longevity, corrosion resistance and eco-friendliness, quantum computing is emerging as a groundbreaking...

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Energy

Mitsubishi Fuso Announces Energy Storage Demonstration

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation has announced it will conduct a joint demonstration of its Battery 2nd Life initiative this year. This initiative will be jointly conducted...

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Motion Control

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...

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Energy

How Emerging Technologies Can Transform EV Battery Reliability and Safety

As U.S. automakers evolve their lineups with new electric and hybrid vehicles, they face a significant challenge: meeting the increasing demand for affordable,...

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Power

2025 Nissan Murano: Variable Compression to the Mpg Rescue

When it arrived in 2002, the Murano was the first crossover that Nissan North America, Inc. offered in the U.S. and Canada. The fourth-generation version went on sale last fall,...

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Technical Innovation
Manufacturing & Prototyping

FPT’s Battery Pack Dives into Marine Market

FPT Industrial formed its ePowertrain department in 2018 and since has developed a range of electric drivelines, battery packs and battery management systems (BMS) targeting on-road commercial...

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Energy

Hydrogen Won't Accept 'No' for an Answer

Most outsiders to the transportation industry don’t know much about rapid developments in hydrogen fuel-cell and hydrogen internal-combustion. There just aren’t the large-scale commercial and...

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Energy

Battery Safety for a Zero-Incident Future

A fire on January 17 gutted what was reportedly the world’s largest battery storage plant in Moss Landing near Monterey, California. The blaze and concerns over air quality damaged by the toxic...

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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...

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Manned Systems

The International Fight over EFuels, Internal Combustion’s Would-Be Savior

Efuels, synthetic gasolines made from captured carbon dioxide and renewable energy (usually wind and solar power) are“ a valuable part of the solution” said...

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INSIDER
Manned Systems

Safran's ENGINeUS 100 Electric Motor Earns EASA Certification

Safran Electrical & Power is celebrating a world first: certification awarded by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) of the ENGINeUS 100 motor – the first...

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Articles
Energy

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,...

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Road Ready
Regulations/Standards

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...

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Energy

Freightliner Unveils Latest Cascadia Class 8 Truck

Freightliner has unveiled the fifth generation of its Cascadia Class 8 truck. The new version is scheduled to begin production mid-2025 and reportedly offers new advanced safety features,...

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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...

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Technical Innovation
Power

CES 2025: Cat Debuts Hybrid-Electric Retrofit on 972 Wheel Loader

A 55,000-lb (24,948-kg) front end loader with substantial field usage time underwent a 12-week hybrid-electric conversion in advance of its CES 2025 debut. “This...

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Energy

CES 2025: Gentex Improves Dimmable Glass Visors with Vanity Mirror

If you are someone who has wrestled with a too-small sun visor in your vehicle, Gentex’s improved dimmable sunshades might be one of the most practical innovations to get...

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Technology Report
Energy

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...

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Energy

Bosch Sees Two Paths Forward for On-Road Hydrogen Trucks

The incoming Republican White House administration is expected to significantly alter regulations that impact the country’s transportation sector. Emissions regulations may change,...

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NASA Spinoff
Energy

Home-Grown Housing

Growing lunar and Martian habitats from mushrooms requires a special process, so Ames Research Center used NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) funding to create and test a growth system. It’s been adapted and used by Mycohab of Windhoek, Namibia, to produce gourmet mushrooms and fungus-based bricks for housing. Read on to learn more.

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Materials

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.

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