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Yes, potatoes. And carrots. But more realistically, OEMs are turning to materials that are at the very least more environmentally sound, primarily for interior applications. Things you may very well [...]

If there's one thing (and it may be the only thing) that the aluminum and steel industries agree upon, it's this: We're leaving the steel era and entering an age [...]

Studies continue to show that car sharing services are exacerbating urban congestion. And while scootersharing might be seen as an acceptable alternative, they carry their own risks-- particularly in city [...]

For a variety of reasons, 3D TVs and accompanying programs failed spectacularly in the home theater arena. But Bosch (bosch.com) sees a bigger future for three-dimensional imaging in the vehicle [...]

Infineon Introduces Flexible FlexRay Transceiver Infineon Technologies' (infineon.com) suite of LIN and CAN (local interconnected network and controller area network) is growing with the addition of its first FlexRay transceiver. [...]

The 2010 Mustang, seemingly, has many moods. The car can be imbued with shades of green, icy blue, dark blue, orange, red, and white. Ford calls this ambient lighting system [...]

Let's start with the basics. What is infotainment? Traditionalists would say the term describes technologies that enhance the driving experience by improving the quality of the entertainment and information delivered [...]

The original 2011 Chevrolet Volt battery weighed in at 435 pounds. The Tesla Model 3's power pack tips the scales at 1,054 pounds. While those are two very different electric [...]

When you come to a four-way stop at roughly the same time as two opposing vehicles, you probably should communicate with a hand wave or at least eye contact. Future [...]

Background: In 2008, the Think City city car was announced in Geneva. An electric city car. From a Norwegian company. Built by Valmet in Finland. There was even a factory [...]

Both the skeptics and the boosters of the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle industry agree on one thing: Without economical storage and management of hydrogen to fuel vehicles and other devices, [...]

3D printers and accompanying materials maker Stratasys (stratasys. com) has released several new thermoplastics it says are readyfor the heat of the factory floor and potentially the rigors of space [...]

'Reckless' has 590 horsepower and 775 pound feet of torque. It's capable of 0 to 60 in four seconds. Still interested? Nikola Powersports (nikolamotor.com), which makes it, hopes the U.S. [...]

All global automakers have design shops with clay modeling and a bevy of rapid prototyping machines. Hyundai Mobis (mobis.co.kr) is the first, and according to the company, the only supplier [...]

'Today I can say that, together with our partners, we are set to become the world's first to use fully automated 3D printing in automotive serial-production.' That's Ingo Ederer, CEO [...]

Product design and simulation, once largely bifurcated into two separate worlds, are blurring into one with the help of large-scale cloud computing. Volkswagen, processor producer NVIDIA (nvidia.com), simulation firm Altair [...]

The experiment at the University of Cambridge more than resembled a toy racetrack. A small fleet of about 16 miniature robotic cars drove seamlessly inside the lines of a two-lane [...]

Extruding parts from aluminum alloy powders can be a costly and time-intensive process, one that researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL; pnnl.gov) say could be on its way [...]

Intel Capital is investing in TriEye (trieye.tech), maker of a sensing technology it says can see objects in rough weather and in the dark of night. Intel Capital led a [...]

They're not really 'flying cars,' nor would it be entirely accurate to call them helicopters. Their proper name is 'electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft' (eVTOL). Whether these still-experimental vehicles [...]

Lowering wear and tear is pretty much holy grail for brake pad makers. When they blended carbon fibers into polymer materials, researchers say they were able to create self-lubricating brakes. [...]

3D technology has everyone excited-well, everyone except maybe those responsible for managing the costs. For many small- to medium-scale manufacturers, the price tag often doesn't justify the additive manufacturing utility. [...]

It's easy to forget, or simply be unaware, of the fact that rally racing accidents that claimed lives were fairly common just a few decades ago. The worst was at [...]

Plug-and-play technology-or tech that can apply to a wide swath of vehicle ranges--usually applies more to software than hardware. A professor at the University of Waterloo didn't get that memo. [...]

Sandia National Laboratories researchers, from left, Steve Verzi, William Severa, Brad Aimone and Craig Vineyard hold different versions of emerging neuromorphic hardware platforms. Sandia's new software, Whetstone, is designed to [...]

Two years ago, Continental (continental-automotive.com) and ZF (zf.com)-fierce rival suppliers in most auto domains--agreed to work together with NVIDIA (www.nvidia.com) to advance a commercial automated driver system. Two years later, [...]

If you believe, as most of the car industry does, that the future of vehicles will be (A) autonomous and (B) electric, then one thing that will have to be [...]

Investment casting has been around a while, as in 5,000 years or so. 3D Systems (3dsystems.com) has unveiled its ProJet MJP 2500 IC, which is targeting automotive and other industries [...]

Your body temperature may keep you safe from an autonomous vehicle, which will read you as a human, instead of a vehicle or another inanimate object, all based on your [...]

Denso Corp. (denso.com) likes what it sees in Infineon Technologies (infineon.com), so much so it's taking a small(ish) stake in the semiconductor company. Both companies say they're doing so to [...]

If one car is cut off by another, in a split second a swerving driver may be forced to decide whether to hit a child crossing the street or crash [...]

If you have the pleasure of watching someone use their fob to lock a 2019 Audi, well, you've quite possibly enjoyed a light show, compliments of the tail light signature. [...]

One of the $6 million Bugatti Divo's more interesting features is its rear grille. The three-dimensional rear light embedded in the grille is partially produced using a 3D printing-based process. [...]

Belt Alternator Starter (a.k.a.: Mild or Micro hybrid) Characteristics: Belt alternator starter (BAS) systems are conventional powertrains with alternators on steroids. A BAS system shuts down the engine at idle, [...]

ZF (zf.com) is one of the biggest suppliers of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), providing more than a dozen OEMs with technologies such as front-facing cameras, sensors and other tech [...]

Local Motors' (localmotors.com) eight-passenger, self-driving 0lli shuttle is small by big city bus standards, but the machinery developed to manufacture it is big--by 3D printing standards anyway. In June, additive [...]

If you love your car but hate the settings on your seats and their pitiful lumbar support, there's not a lot you can do-short of picking up an orthopedic back [...]

Aluminum and steel may be acquaintances, but you definitely would not call them friends. While the two alloys may share space on the vehicle-an aluminum hood affixed to a steel [...]

A lithium-ion battery is only as strong as its weakest cell. Since batteries are constructed in a series of cells, one bad cell can disable an entire energy storage system. [...]

In describing their new autonomous scanner that's mated to a 3D printer, researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD (fraunhofer.de) suggest a kind of classic application. If the [...]

The lament among policymakers, and not a small number of manufacturers, is the lack of technically advanced labor to operate increasingly sophisticated assembly plants. In February, the ribbon was cut [...]

Somewhere along the public roads in the San Francisco Bay area and Guangzhou, China, semi-autonomous vehicles are being operated by Pony.ai (pony.ai), a year-old startup that recently netted a $112-million [...]

Denso Corp.'s (www.denso.com) newly released vision sensor is nocturnal-seeing pedestrians, cyclists, road signs and driving markers under the cover of darkness. This new unit is more functionally capable yet is [...]

Airwolf 3D (www.airwolf3d.com) makes 3D printers. In fact, it's made four generations of them. But for the fifth, the company no longer wants its customers to think of the product [...]

Considering just about all of the devices in the vehicle that are graduating with advanced degrees, the traditional rearview mirror is pretty much coasting by with a GED. Biometrics firm [...]

Toyota plans to make 10 pure battery electric vehicle models by the early 2020s. General Motors says it will make 20 new EV models by 2023. Ford followed GM's announcement [...]

Israeli firm Guardian Optical Technologies says its sensor technology is so 'passenger aware' that it can discern just how many heartbeats are in a car at any given moment. The [...]

The battle over who will control, or perhaps even get a toehold, in the LiDAR market continues, seemingly with new entrants nearly every month. In December, emerging from stealth mode [...]

3D printing, while cheaper than many other forms of rapid prototyping, still isn't cheap. Creating iteration after iteration adds up, particularly when testing out how different materials react to differing [...]

A Los Angeles company that literally wants to change how automobiles are constructed through 3D printing technology has received a $100+ million investment from a Chinese holding company. Divergent 3D [...]