Automotive Engineering
Automotive Engineering highlights issues related to automobile manufacturing – including vehicle parts and accessories – and the environmental impact and safety of automotive products, production facilities and manufacturing processes.
innovations-report offers stimulating reports and articles on a variety of topics ranging from automobile fuel cells, hybrid technologies, energy saving vehicles and carbon particle filters to engine and brake technologies, driving safety and assistance systems.
Hydrogen vehicles making impressive progress toward commercialization
A transition to hydrogen vehicles could greatly reduce U.S. oil dependence and carbon dioxide emissions, says a new congressionally mandated report from the…
Air suspension system – Housing made of DuPont™ Zytel® HTN PPA facilitates the precise management of car air suspension systems
The polyphthalamide (PPA) with 35 wt. % glass fibres meets high requirements in terms of strength, dimensional stability – even at high temperatures, chemical…
Control systems – Software agents in automobile production
There are more than 450 automated production stations – from body-shell work to assembly – in Daimler’s C-class production plant in Bremen. In order to keep…
Be a jammy dodger – new sat nav to beat traffic jams
The ‘Congestion Avoidance Dynamic Routing Engine’ (CADRE) uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to interpret live traffic information shared between vehicles…
Cooperative system could wipe out car alarm noise
“The basis of this system is trust,” says Sencun Zhu, assistant professor of computer science and engineering. “You need to trust the entity that distributes…
LLNL’s prototype hydrogen storage tank maintains extended thermal endurance
Unlike conventional liquid hydrogen (LH2 tanks in prototype cars, the LLNL pressure vessel was parked for six days without venting evaporated hydrogen vapor.The LLNL development has significantly increased the amount of time it takes to start releasing hydrogen during periods of long-term parking, as compared to today’s liquid hydrogen tanks capable of holding hydrogen for merely two to four days….