HEADLINES ARCHIVE
EV sales still at least double-digit growth in Europe
Chinese brands MG and BYD make inroads.
Crystalline alloys at the cutting edge
Crystalline alloys are pushing the frontiers of metallurgy and shaping high-performance materials with these five trends.
India’s automotive market accelerates — Feintool opens first production site in Pune
The new facility will focus on fineblanked automotive components.
A rare opportunity for a magnet revolution
The demand for rare-earth magnets for electric motors in cars, robotics and industrial machinery is high, but supply chain logistics are slacking with bottlenecking, trade issues and transportation delays.
The 4 reasons electric vehicle targets shouldn't be weakened
New employment opportunities from battery cell production, charging infrastructure installation and maintenance, grid upgrades and EV software engineering will also increase.
Power parking: The challenges of EV charging infrastructure
Each site will have to prove which vehicles it can move through without wasting land, power or capital.
NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion is the platform for a robotaxi-ready world
It combines high-performance NVIDIA DRIVE AGX in-vehicle compute, NVIDIA Halos OS — the software foundation of Halos, built on the safety-certified NVIDIA DriveOS operating system.
AI-powered occupancy detection system developed by team of researchers
According to its developers, the system offers operators live information on carriage occupancy, which enables them to better manage capacity and improve passenger distribution across trains.
AI reveals the invisible magnetic chaos wasting energy inside electric motors
A new AI-powered physics tool may help electric motors waste less energy by decoding their mysterious magnetic “maze” patterns.
DIAvent maxFlow for high-performance batteries
Maximum flow rate, adjustable trigger pressure and autonomous resealing combine in a single degassing valve.
Welding distortion control in large fabricated structures
Fabricated buildings, followed by such engineering marvels as oil rigs and ships, receive thousands of welds, covering seams and structural joints across massive interconnected sections.
Perfect hold — even at over 100 bar
Freudenberg Sealing Technologies presents an elastomer-based sealing solution for carbon dioxide air-conditioning compressors.
Modular TPE bellows for special-purpose vehicles and industrial applications
Using a modular tooling concept, custom-designed bellows made of thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) can be produced with significantly reduced tooling and fixed costs.
The race to build cold-weather batteries
From new chemistries to liquefied gas electrolytes, battery developers are rethinking cell design to keep electrified systems running in extreme cold.
Amsted Automotive wins Michigan Manufactured Export of the Year award with innovative one-way clutch system
This technology delivers fast and seamless powertrain transitions within transmissions and serves the internal combustion engine, hybrid electric vehicle and electric vehicle markets.
Will EV owners have the right to repair?
A late-model car is fundamentally no longer a mechanical system. In an EV, there are high-tech battery chemistries, high-voltage hardware, embedded software, thermal management, networked controllers and cloud-connected services.
Keysight adds assembly simulation to virtual manufacturing portfolio
The solution lets engineers validate processes virtually without requiring finite element modeling expertise.
Technology transfer: Automotive hydraulic accumulators prove their value in agriculture
A hydraulic accumulator originally developed for the automotive industry has been adapted for use in agricultural machinery operating under extreme conditions.
Advanced wear-resistant coatings for long lasting connections
This article takes a deeper look at the most capable materials in this evolving array of wear defense finishes, going so far as to detail which equipment type will benefit from each hardened coating solution.
Identity crisis: Behind the Charger’s thirsty V8 sunset and perceived pivot to electric
The V8 Hemi could not live on in Dodge’s flagship sedan. But combustion power was always part of the plan.