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Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
Winning an Academy Award is probably not something most engineers ever expect to do. Vanns, who now works at Disney -owned Industrial Light & Magic , in London, was an avid cinephile growing up. I got into reverse engineering and understanding how computers worked under the hood,” he says.
Electric Cars Report
DECEMBER 4, 2022
Californian high-tech advanced mobility company Canoo has delivered its new Light Tactical Vehicle (LTV) to the United States Army for Analysis & Demonstration in fulfillment of the contract awarded in July 2022. The LTV is engineered for extreme environments and includes stealth configurations.
Cars That Think
APRIL 30, 2022
The same is true—with much higher stakes—for microelectronic chips: How can engineers confirm that what’s inside has truly met the intent of the designers? How can a semiconductor design company tell whether its intellectual property was stolen? This approach is called ptychographic X-ray computed tomography (PXCT).
Green Car Congress
MARCH 2, 2019
liter EcoBlue diesel engines, new 48V EcoBlue mild Hybrid powertrains; and driver assistance technologies including Active Park Assist in the enhanced Ford Tourneo Custom people-mover from mid-2019. To reduce friction within the engine, new steel pistons feature a slimmer skirt design than the out-going cast-aluminium design.
Green Car Congress
JULY 18, 2020
The resulting glassy polymer membranes demonstrated nonthermal membrane fractionation of light crude oil through a combination of class- and size-based “sorting” of molecules. —Vijay Swarup, vice president of research and development at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company. —Thompson et al. —M.G.
Cars That Think
JULY 11, 2022
Cruise , the San-Francisco–based designer and operator of all-electric self-driving cars, employs nearly 2,000 engineers, including somewhere between 300 and 900 engineers with Ph.D. Here’s what Mohamed Elshenawy , Cruise’s executive vice president of engineering, told IEEE Spectrum about the company’s workforce.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
Approximately 6 billion gallons of fuel are wasted in the US each year as vehicles wait at stop lights or sit in dense traffic with engines idling, according to US Department of Energy estimates. —Tim Gee, principal computer vision engineer at GRIDSMART.
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