Automotive Engineering

Automotive Engineering

Innovative Lightweight Structures Boost Performance at Chemnitz

Researchers of the Federal Cluster of Excellence “MERGE: Technologies for Multifunctional Lightweight Structures” at Chemnitz University of Technology and…

Automotive Engineering

Discover Fully Adaptive Headlamp Light Distribution Innovation

In the context of the research project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) regarding the fully adaptive light distribution for…

Automotive Engineering

Enhancing Automotive Design with 3D Scanning Technology

The variety of car models has increased significantly over the past decades. Take Volkswagen: In 1950, the automaker produced just two model ranges – the…

Automotive Engineering

Boosting Reliability and Range of Integrated Circuits

Fast integrated circuits (ICs) are used in many ways in applied electronics. Especially, for hard driven fast or high-power components in the circuit, however,…

Automotive Engineering

New Algorithm Enhances Stability of Planar-Rod Objects

During the annual top conference of the Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), which took…

Automotive Engineering

Automated Driving: Redefining City Mobility and Maneuverability

Automobiles increase the mobility of their users. However, their maneuverability is pushed to the limit by cramped inner city conditions. Those who need to…

Automotive Engineering

Innovative Joining Technology for High-Performance Hybrid Parts

Aim of the international project FlexHyJoin, funded by the European Union’s program for research and innovation “Horizon 2020”, is the novel development of a…

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Direct-Drive Linear Actuator for Active Suspension Systems

This invention by researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPolyU) is a linear switched reluctance actuator for automobile active suspension…

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ACOSAR: Merging Simulation With Real Testing Standards

Increasingly stringent statutory provisions such as Euro VI or zero-emission zones, larger urban populations, the booming Asian automobile market and…

Automotive Engineering

Driving Innovation: Siemens Engineer Advances Digital Cars

Cornel Klein, a Siemens software engineer, steers a compact yellow van through a city. After a left turn, he stops at a traffic light before proceeding…

Automotive Engineering

International Training for Technical Cleanliness Inspection

To this end, Fraunhofer IPA has been offering the required training for over ten years now. Given that demand abroad has risen substantially on account of the…

Automotive Engineering

EU-LIVE Launches New Smart Urban Light Vehicles in Europe

Across the globe, the urban population continues to grow. While around 750 million people lived in cities in 1950, this number reached almost 4 billion in…

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Plug-In Hybrids: Cost-Efficiency Calculated 1,000x Faster

Plug-in hybrids have low fuel consumption, but require more costly parts than cars with a regular combustion engine. During development, the optimal cost…

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New Diamond Transistor Promises Lower Energy Use in Cars

A research group led by Professor Hiroshi Kawarada (Faculty of Science and Engineering) has developed a highly efficient transistor used to reduce energy…

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First Production Vehicle with Advanced Software Control

This technology, developed in the research project of the same name, replaces the entire control system with standard hardware and a kind of “operating system…

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New Global Standards for Automobile Development Unveiled

The largest vehicle wind tunnel at the University of Stuttgart has been put back into operation after undergoing several months of modernisation work by the…

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