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How High-Reliability Capacitors Support Electrical Power in Military Vehicles

This article explores the rise of electrification in military applications, the enabling role of high-reliability power supplies and converters, and how capacitors are meeting the rigorous requirements of modern electrified land systems. Read on to learn more.

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Power

Delivering Higher Performance Batteries with Advanced Microscopy

As we collectively move away from fossil fuel power and work toward cleaner energy solutions, batteries are emerging as the preferred clean energy source. Read on to learn how they're advancing.

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Articles
Energy

Examining EV Battery Thermal Management

In this article, we'll discuss how modeling and simulation can be used to facilitate the design of thermal management systems for EV batteries – from the cell scale up. Read on to learn more.

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Products
Energy

New Products

See the new products, including Webasto's traction batteries, which are increasing from 35 to 40 kilowatt hours; Avery Dennison's pressure-sensitive adhesive tape solutions for EV battery cell wrapping applications; Thermo Fisher Scientific's Thermo Scientific™ LInspector™ Edge In-line Mass Profilometer; and more.

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Briefs
Energy

Cheaper and Safer Battery Storage

Researchers have developed a new technique to solve the problem of how to increase the capacity of sodium-ion batteries. Read on to learn more about it.

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Briefs
Energy

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.

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Briefs
Energy

Iron Could Be Key to Less Expensive, Greener Lithium-Ion Batteries

Researchers are hoping to spark a green battery revolution by showing that iron instead of cobalt and nickel can be used as a cathode material in lithium-ion batteries. Read on to learn more.

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Briefs
Energy

A New Way to Enhance Durability of Lithium Batteries

Researchers have been developing batteries with higher energy storage density, and thus, longer driving range. Other goals include shorter charging times, greater tolerance to low temperatures, and safer operation. One of the more promising such batteries has a lithium-containing cathode supplemented with nickel, manganese, and cobalt (NMC). Read on to learn more.

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Briefs
Energy

Algorithms to Enhance Reliability of Electric Vehicle Charging

American drivers have long been accustomed to quickly filling up at a gas station with plenty of fuel available, and electric vehicle drivers want their pit stops to mimic this experience. Researchers are working to make EV charging more resilient. Read on to learn more about it.

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Power

Battery Progress, But What’s the Holdup in Adoption?

There’s no shortage of alternatives to lithium-ion EV batteries in development. From lithium-iron phosphate to sodium-ion to multiple solid-state chemistries, companies are racing to perfect these technologies and figure out how to manufacture them at scale. Read on to find out what the holdup is.

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Test & Measurement

Enhancing EV Battery Design with Advanced Testing

This article explores how advanced testing using end-to-end EV battery test systems can improve the quality and performance of EV battery designs. Read on to learn more.

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Technology Report
Power

Off-Highway Hybrids Are Entering Prime Time

Vocational off-highway vehicles are piling on the miles with power provided by an internal combustion engine (ICE) with additional hybrid technology. “We often get asked the question,...

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Articles
Power

Thermal Management Lies at the Heart of EV Innovation

At the heart of innovations that have powered improvements in EV range and performance is the pursuit of efficiency. Today’s electric drivetrains convert over 85% of a battery’s...

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Original Equipment
Energy

HD Hyundai Rolls out a Slew of New Machines

HD Hyundai recently announced several new additions to its portfolio of off-highway machines. The expansion includes the HD100 dozer, the HX355A excavator, and a quartet of new models for its...

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Manned Systems

Brownout for Commercial-Vehicle Electrification?

The high cost of batteries to electrify on-road commercial vehicles is one thing. But some connected with or studying electrification for the CV sector now are concerned that the cost of...

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Technical Innovation
Manned Systems

Sinonus Carbon-Fiber Structural Batteries Would Reduce Weight While Adding Range

Carbon-fiber structural batteries are not entirely new, but now Sinonus, a company spun out of Chalmers Technical University in Gothenburg, Sweden, is further...

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Electronics & Computers

Valeo Moves to Support the Progression to Electrified Vehicles

Whether it’s reinventing the vehicle cabin, repackaging power products, or writing new software code, Valeo is focused on smarter mobility technologies. “When you put it...

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News
Energy

Case Launches ‘Industry First’ Electric Backhoe Loader

Case Construction Equipment launched its first electric vehicle (EV) products last year – the CX15EV mini excavator and the SL22EV small articulated loader – and the company...

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News
Electronics & Computers

BMW, Classiq Find Better Architectures Through Quantum Computing

As part of BMW’s Emerging Technologies team, Lukas Müller picks apart new ideas to evaluate if they are relevant for the automaker. He wasn’t the first at BMW to look...

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News
Power

Reducing the Weight of EV Batteries with Specialty Thermoplastics

Weight reduction in EV battery components is an important factor in optimizing battery energy density, which in turn is critical to extending vehicle range and boosting...

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Articles
Energy

Cummins New X15 Engine Meets Upcoming Regs While Boosting Efficiency

Cummins provided extensive details of the design and engineering involved in developing the new HELM version of its X15 diesel engine. The company says its new engine...

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Road Ready
Energy

2025 Volvo EX90 Review: Update Required

Contrary to what you may have heard, Americans are buying more EVs than ever. But they tend to like ‘em big. After production delays due to software development issues – a problem that continues...

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Mechanical & Fluid Systems

Q&A: What It Takes to Add an E-Axle

During a recent Bosch tech showcase, we spoke with Joe Leaf, engineering manager for electric propulsion systems at Linamar. The Guelph, Ontario-based parts manufacturer is no stranger to building unsung...

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Technology Report
Imaging

Coherix’s Laser-Based Computer-Vision Improves Electronics Manufacturing

An industry-first 3D laser-based, computer-vision system can monitor and control the application of adhesive beads as tiny in width as two human hairs. This unique...

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News
Manned Systems

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...

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INSIDER
Energy

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.

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Application Briefs
Energy

A Subsea Processing Milestone

Curtiss-Wright and Saipem have reached a significant milestone for the subsea applications industry: the completion of the qualification process of an all-electric seabed barrier fluid-less pump. Read on to learn more about it.

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Briefs
AR/AI

Engineers Develop More Accurate AI Algorithm for Improving Nuclear Reactor Performance

To expand the availability of electricity generated from nuclear power, several countries have started developing designs for small modular reactors (SMRs), which could take less time and money to construct compared to existing reactors. Toward this effort, a Purdue University study has made progress in enabling artificial intelligence to improve monitoring and control of SMRs. Read on to learn what this means.

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