The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Some thought the idea of a faux exhaust system, designed to help EVs mimic the howl of a V8, was a cringe-worthy gimmick. But others felt it broke new ground in terms of vehicular sound design and would ensure electric cars could retain some of the magic of combustion vehicles.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Franz von Holzhausen, the chief designer at Tesla, is among several featured designers guiding an online automotive course launched by the Petersen Automotive Museum and Yellowbrick, which focuses on online education and career exploration. Other designers guiding the course are: Ralph Gilles, Chief Design Officer at Stellantis.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 15, 2023

The Tesla Cybertruck is finalized and nearing production over three years after CEO Elon Musk unveiled it, the company’s Chief Vehicle Designer Franz von Holzhausen said on a podcast. After McCaffrey asked whether the Cybertruck was finished “from a design perspective,” von Holzhausen answered, “Yeah.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

He’s been involved with the two-way radio communication, which uses designated frequencies, since his uncle introduced him to it when he was a youngster. is pursuing an electrical engineering degree at the University of Scranton , in Pennsylvania. The idea behind HamSCI is getting citizens involved in science,” Piccini says.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 4, 2024

The IEEE Jamaica Section is acting as a catalyst to engage and inspire the island nation’s next generation of engineering and technology professionals. Participants explored engineering and technology careers, academic pathways, and how IEEE can support them at different stages of their journey.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The initiative aims to improve the country’s reliance on hardware infrastructure and to become a global hub for electronics manufacturing and design. Sharma, a semiconductor engineer, was instrumental in organizing the meeting for the Tokyo-based company. While building his radio, he says, he fell in love with engineering. “I

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2021

But from listening to what Elon Musk said today, I don't think he has any idea what getting humanoid robots to do useful stuff actually involves. They look for things that cars need to understand, and they have absolutely no idea about anything else, which can cause all kinds of problems for them. Not impossible, no. Sure, why not.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2020

MIT professor of chemical engineering Heather Kulik says they “are really fascinating, functional materials that are unlike a lot of other material phases. We do view it as the framework that can be applied to any materials design challenge where you’re really trying to address multiple objectives at once. —Heather Kulik.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 2, 2022

In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” The general idea is really simple,” Schneider says. “A A lot of people have said they also thought of this idea.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

It seems like every new electric vehicle unveiling now starts with showing off a new ‘skateboard’ design , or the chassis of the vehicle that houses everything it needs to make it run. The engineer in me always thought it’d be fun to have just the bare skateboard, meaning you could go wild with your ideas of what to put on top.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

To conclude the celebrations for the 60 th anniversary of Renault 4, the car maker teamed up with motion design hub TheArsenale to create a futuristic showcar, reinterpreting this iconic model. Design wise, AIR4 has resulted in a reinterpretation of the retro icon by TheArsenale, far from the modern car design language.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 9, 2021

Tesla’s production of the all-electric Cybertruck may have been pushed back due to design finalization by company engineers who have been modifying the vehicle’s dimensions and look. It appears that Tesla may have been working on finalizing the design of the Cybertruck, and this instance may have caused the delay.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2017

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has designed and manufactured two advanced single-cylinder engines for combustion research and development. SwRI engineers have designed a highly versatile single-cylinder research engine platform for advanced combustion research. Image courtesy SwRI. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 8, 2023

No matter how many transistors there are between the input and output there are only two sources of resistance,” says SangHeyon Kim , associate professor of electrical engineering at KAIST. Researchers at MIT, led by associate profess of electrical and computer engineering Ruonan Han , tested a scheme that would use terahertz waves instead.

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EV Central

JANUARY 9, 2024

The VinFast VF Wild electric pickup concept unveiled at the 2024 CES tech extravaganza in Las Vegas this morning was designed in Australia. The sharp-lined VF Wild ute is the work of an independent design studio in Melbourne called GoMotiv, as is the VF 3 mini electric SUV rolled out alongside it at CES.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2012

During the Winter/Spring 2012 semester, students at the two colleges will create vehicle designs enabled by the packaging flexibility of the clean, efficient, and lightweight opoc. The idea for this competition came out of internal discussions about a year ago. The power density is more than 1 hp per pound of engine weight.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2023

The Ohio State (OSU) & Wilberforce University Team has been named the winner of Year One of the EcoCAR Electric Vehicle (EV) Challenge, taking the lead in the four-year collegiate engineering competition. Year One of EcoCAR is all about generating big ideas and developing a strategy for the remainder of the competition.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Now Madni—a professor of astronautics, aerospace, and mechanical engineering at the University of Southern California —is working to transform engineering education. Ramo served as a presidential chair and professor of electrical engineering at USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering from 2008 until he died in 2016.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Looking to expand its team of software engineers and AI experts, Tesla showed the most intimate details regarding its AI platform, impressive examples of its Full Self-Driving suite, and even unveiled the Tesla Bot. The idea worked, CEO Elon Musk revealed during the 2021 Annual Shareholder’s Meeting, which was held last night.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The two companies have pooled their knowledge and know-how to advance technological innovation in areas including production planning and scheduling, part design and production efficiency. We will only optimize our engineering process if we think digital, work connected and rely on an integrated data.

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Teslarati

JULY 5, 2021

In his latest round of SpaceX-related tweets, CEO Elon Musk says that the company has plans to boost Raptor’s performance by at least 15% and the number of those engines installed on Starship by 50%. So possibly 9 engines for some Starships? It’s one possibility — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 4, 2021.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2022

Home to one of the nation’s top nuclear engineering programs and a national leader in energy innovation that is scalable and sustainable, Purdue and its experts are uniquely qualified to evaluate this “giant leap” toward a carbon-free energy future. Edwardson Dean of Purdue’s College of Engineering. —Amit Varma. Kim is the Capt.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Program (FCT) is soliciting ( DE-FOA-0000680 ) ideas for H-Prize topics ( earlier post ) and criteria for advancements that would help to enable the widespread commercialization of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Hydrogen Utilization.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

LiquidPiston X1 engine features three separate combustion chambers creating 3 power strokes per revolution for high power density. Dr. Alexander Shkolnik, President and Co-Founder of LiquidPiston, is presenting the engine in a paper at the SAE International/JSAE 2014 Small Engine Technology?Conference Source: LPI. " x 6.2"

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

And while to some, the brand’s offering is nothing more than a fake engine sound, seemingly modeled off of a Mustang V8, Borla would argue otherwise. The post Borla exhaust display at SEMA shows future of EV sound design appeared first on TESLARATI. Shoot me an email at william@teslarati.com.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 18, 2024

Attendees can expect a dynamic exchange of ideas as Indian and international industry experts converge to discuss the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the automotive sector. Building on this legacy, the 5th edition promises to deliver even greater insights and opportunities for collaboration and networking.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Valeo is inviting engineering students to take part in the €100,000 (US$136,000) global Valeo Innovation Challenge. The goal is to design equipment that, between now and 2030, will make the car more intelligent and intuitive. Each team will be given €5,000 (US$6,800) to put their idea into practice and build a functioning demonstrator.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2023

Ricardo is working with the sustainable HYdrogen powered Shipping ( sHYpS ) consortium to design and develop hydrogen fuel cell propulsion technologies to power the next generation of zero emissions passenger ships. The work has been funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK Government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The H-engine—basically two separate engines housed within the same engine block—comprises two switchable parallel piston banks, independently fueled by gasoline and CNG. Startup Eco-Motive has developed what it calls the first dual-fuel “H” engine; it recently received a patent (# 8807098 ) on the design.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2016

Cadillac revealed the Escala Concept, introducing the next evolution of Cadillac design and previewing the craftsmanship and technology being developed for many future models. The Escala Concept previews the design and technical ideas driving the next phase of Cadillac’s ongoing expansion. Escala uses a new 4.2-liter

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2021

Just under a year after the initial concept idea, Audi Sport has started testing the new Audi RS Q e-tron series hybrid, with which Audi will tackle the Dakar Rally in January 2022. The characteristics of the Dakar Rally presented the engineers with special challenges. Earlier post.). That’s a very long distance.

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Cars That Think

JULY 29, 2023

Niyoyita, who attends classes remotely, is a process engineer at Africa Improved Foods , also in Kigali. As an engineer, normally we tend to be very technical. That was how I got into engineering,” she says, adding that she also was inspired by her brother, an engineer. She has worked there for more than four years. “It

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The Tesla Cybertruck was a lot of things before it became what it is now, and before CEO Elon Musk and Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen landed on a cyberpunk, stainless steel truck with sharp lines and edges, it was initially designed with curves and an aluminum exterior. It was too curved,” von Holzhausen says. “It

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Cars That Think

MAY 23, 2022

Sandia National Laboratories , a research and development lab that specializes in building microgrids for military bases, is teaming up with NASA to design one that will work on the moon. There are, of course, some differences between designing a microgrid for a moon base and designing a similar setup used on Earth.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2022

During the competition, teams will participate in a nearly 18-month process of pursuing innovative ideas for the development, design, and invention of technologies within the commercial algae value chain, exploring novel solutions to algae production, processing, and new product development.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

After all, diesel cars cost less to maintain, burn less fuel, and have a longer engine life. Although the pollutant emissions of a diesel engine are less than those of a gasoline one, it still emits carcinogens, nitrous oxides, and soot. Older models don’t even have the emission-control features that newer ones do.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2009

Bright Automotive will unveil its IDEA plug-in hybrid concept on Tuesday in Washington, DC. Bright will then take the IDEA will to Norway in May 2009 for the Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS24). The IDEA is designed to operate in all-electric mode for the first 30 miles before switching to hybrid mode for a full range of 400 miles.

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