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Hyundai CE Debuts Hydrogen and Electric Excavators at Bauma 2022
The Hyundai HW155H hydrogen-powered excavator concept made its debut in late October at the Bauma expo in Munich, Germany. Hyundai Construction Equipment displayed the...
Technical Innovation Electronics & Computers
Yanmar, ELEO Announce Electrification Strategy for Off-Highway Sector
Yanmar announced its strategy for electrification of future off-road powertrain offerings at the Bauma 2022 conference in late October. During a presentation, Yanmar...
News Manned Systems
Navistar’s ‘Ground Up’ Approach to All-New Diesel Engine
Though electrification has taken center stage for the commercial trucking industry, diesel ICE powertrains will continue to serve as the preferred propulsion system of many...
News Energy
Williams Debuts New Flexible Platform for BEVs and FCVs
Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) has unveiled its latest product, the EVR electric vehicle platform. It has been designed to provide an accelerated start to a high-performance...
Technology Report Test & Measurement
Tula’s DMD Promises Gains in EV Efficiency
Nestled in San Jose, California just south of the San Francisco Bay, the small but mighty team at Tula Technologies continues to develop advancements for optimizing the efficiency of ICE and...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
The Haters Go After Toyota
Want your company to be the target of haters? Here’s a sure way to do it, as proven in 2022.
News Green Design & Manufacturing
Gearing Dana for the EV Future
As Dana Inc. transitions further into electrified systems, it pays to have a Mechatronics engineer leading the company’s technology charge. Giulio Ornella, Dana’s VP of Global Engineering, has been...
Editorial Energy
Zeroing in on Zero-Carbon Fuels
COP27, the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference that took place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, over a two-week span in November, helped bring global attention to the need for significant reductions of...
Application Briefs Power
Main Propulsion Electric Motor
DRS announced that it has completed factory acceptance testing and shipment of the first production unit of the main propulsion motor for the U.S. Navy’s new Columbia Class submarine.
Briefs Materials
Biobased Carbon Fibers and Thermosetting Resins for Use in DOD Composites Applications
The aim was to use renewable resources derived from plants and other sources to prepare high-performance carbon fiber and thermosetting matrix resins with high strength and high thermal resistance.
Articles Materials
Proposed Standards and Methods for Leak Testing Lithium-Ion Battery Packs
Battery packs, whether made of prismatic, cylindrical, or pouch cells, are cooled by common automotive thermal management systems.
Articles Energy
Silicon Forging Ahead for Higher-Performance Battery Anodes
General Motors’ new joint-research agreement with OneD underscores the promise of silicon-anode development.
Products Energy
New Products
See the new products for December 2022, including power diodes, a battery management system, gelled tantalum capacitors, and more.
Articles Power
Powering Light Electric Vehicles
Light Electric Vehicles (LEVs) such as golf carts have been traditionally powered by lead-acid batteries.
Articles Power
Meeting the Challenge of Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Innovation
Today, batteries are the new engine for innovative electric vehicle (EV) development.
Supplier Eye Connectivity
Are You Prepared for Scope 3?
Suppliers’ heads keep spinning. If the challenges of inflation, energy costs, logistics and labor scarcity weren’t enough chaos, here comes another hurdle: The ongoing push for de-carbonization —...
News Energy
Liebherr Goes All in on Hydrogen Fuel
At the Bauma conference in late October, Liebherr displayed two prototype H2-fueled engines, the H964 and H966, to showcase its hydrogen-engine technology. Each prototype employed a different hydrogen...
Technical Innovation Energy
Kohler Doubles down on ICE Development
Kohler announced a new strategy at the Bauma 2022 expo – the company aims to transform itself from a power producer into an energy supplier. “Our business transformation is focused on providing...
Articles Green Design & Manufacturing
Tension and the Electric Takeover
Something happened in September 2022 that can be seen as emblematic of the auto industry’s accelerating transition to electrification: Tesla’s Model Y was Europe’s best-selling vehicle. An EV as an...
Global Vehicles Materials
2023 Toyota Prius Turns Heads at Los Angeles Auto Show
Toyota has pushed aside talk about the decline of auto shows by taking over the buzz of the Los Angeles auto show by introducing the sleekest, most luxurious and capable Prius hybrid...
Articles Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Cadillac's Future-Tech Flagship
Restoring the Cadillac brand to its golden-age pinnacle, when it stood equal among Europe’s ultra-luxury greats, has long been an intermittent dream within GM. The grandiose ‘Sixteen’ concept in 2003...
Articles Power
Hydraulic Fluids Evolve to Meet Critical Equipment-Design Trends
Driven by a number of factors, hydraulic equipment such as excavators, lifts, presses, bulldozers, cranes, injection molding equipment and more are rapidly evolving to meet...
Road Ready Power
Hub-Motoring in Lordstown’s Novel Endurance
“It’s been exciting to create a new vehicle from the ground up,” Chi Yip, Lordstown Motors’ director of vehicle integration, asserted from the passenger seat, as we accelerated onto...
News Energy
FPT’s New EPowertrain Plant Commences EAxle Production for Nikola Tre BEV
Sustainability is an increasingly significant target for many commercial-vehicle manufacturers’ industrial activities and new products, and FPT Industrial is no...
News Power
How Nissan’s 2023 Ariya EV Keeps Its Cool
For their first battery-electric vehicle, the Leaf, Nissan engineers opted for a simple air-cooled/heated lithium-ion battery. But on their second EV, the 2023 Ariya, engineered cooling and...
News Energy
Silicon Forging Ahead for Higher-Performance Battery Anodes
Silicon-infused anodes, already widely considered one of the most promising candidate technologies for the next significant performance-improvement phase of electric-vehicle (EV)...
News Green Design & Manufacturing
Volvo Leads the Shift to ‘Driver Understanding’
Volvo started teasing out some of the details of its all-electric replacement for the XC90 SUV, dubbed the EX90.
Articles Power
Accessibility: The Future of Mobility
In August 1975, I headed west from Michigan in my new Chevy Van, personally customized for living on the road. My destination was the University of California, Berkeley, where I was enrolled to pursue...
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INSIDERRF & Microwave Electronics
FAA to Replace Aging Network of Ground-Based Radars
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A New Additive Manufacturing Accelerator for the U.S. Navy in Guam
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Rewriting the Engineer’s Playbook: What OEMs Must Do to Spin the AI Flywheel
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2026 Toyota RAV4 Review: All Hybrid, All the Time
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F-22 Pilot Controls Drone With Tablet
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L3Harris Starts Low Rate Production Of New F-16 Viper Shield
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Hydrogen Engines Are Heating Up for Heavy Duty
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SAE Automotive Podcast: Solid-State Batteries
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SAE Automotive Engineering Podcast: Additive Manufacturing
Aerospace
A New Approach to Manufacturing Machine Connectivity for the Air Force
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Optimizing Production Processes with the Virtual Twin
