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One Billion Cars Worldwide, Search for Green Fuel Continues
Last month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its 17th annual greenhouse gas inventory, and it doesn’t look good, with transportation emissions rising by 18 percent between 1990 and 2010 in the U.S. The demand for transportation will only grow in coming years, as emerging economies improve living standards and acquire more cars and the developed world remains slow …
Top Luxury Brand Stays Ahead with PLM
When only the best is good enough, Bang & Olufsen is the first stop in audio and video solutions for the home and car – that is, if you’re shopping in the Aston Martin, Mercedes AMG, BMW or Audi segment. On its homepage, Bang & Olufsen proudly refers to itself as “an icon of performance and design excellence [with] a …
Holistic Systems Engineering Best Approach for Automotive
In the March edition of Automotive Engineering International, Bruce Morey addresses how advancing CAD, CAM and PLM technologies are changing the way engineers develop, simulate, and analyse car designs. And it’s not only product development tools that are becoming evermore sophisticated and widely used. Cars themselves are more advanced, incorporating a vast array of software and computers. Today, Morey argues, …
Build-Your-Own Car: New Trends in Auto Design Crowdsourcing
A growing list of car companies are mobilizing an army of inspired amateur car designers from around the world to create, share, modify and build new vehicle designs. Commonly acknowledged as the first crowdsourced vehicle, the design of the Fiat Mio concept car was outsourced to a large group. After soliciting design input, Fiat posted entries on its project website …
Are You Sacrificing Brand Reputation for Faster Time to Market?
Do you remember the first time you bought a new car? How proud you were? The envious stares of your neighbors? But what happens to that feeling when your car doesn’t start in the morning and those same neighbors are laughing? It’s the era of the product recall. Consumers are constantly looking at the make, model and serial number of …
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Going the Distance: Is the Super Battery a Reality for Next-Generation Autos?
“Battery power has greater potential to positively alter the future of American competitiveness – and American freedom – than any other technology in the 21st century.” That’s what David Benjamin of Design News recently wrote in his article: “Superbattery: The Next Great Triumph of Engineering.” The promises of the super battery (also known as the lithium-ion battery) for use in …
Consumer Choice, Fuel Efficiency Big Trends at Detroit Auto Show
The North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), happening in Detroit through January, has a wide array of impressive hybrid vehicles, and marks a leap forward in fuel efficiency and consumer choice. Notable at the high-end: the Mercedes-Benz E300 BlueTEC hybrid, which runs on clean diesel, and its E400 hybrid with combined estimated 27 mpg. Mercedes-Benz also shows a new version …
Syncing Digital & Automotive Worlds… Are We There Yet?
Nobody ever wants to admit having watched cheesy 1980s shows like Knight Rider. Not even me. But let’s just say, hypothetically, we as a human race happen to find the idea of cars which talk to us, understand us, and help us out of tight spots… appealing. This must be so, because fast forward 30 years and KITT-like cars are …
High-Tech Autos Center Stage at Las Vegas Electronics Show
This year’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas—the largest in its 44-year history, with 1.861 million net square feet of exhibit space—features a veritable feast for tech lovers, from ultra-thin TV sets to touchscreen game consoles. But by far the coolest gadgets come courtesy of the six auto companies exhibiting at the show – Ford Motor Co., General Motors, …
Luxury Car Brands Adopt Hybrid Technology – But What About the Rest of Us?
The global auto industry has made an amazing recovery since the energy price crisis of 2008 and 2009, and sales figures indicate unbroken popularity of fast, powerful and luxurious vehicles. But that hasn’t stopped R&D departments of leading manufacturers and suppliers from looking into the future, experimenting with ways to increase energy efficiency and reduce environmental impact. Research into alternative …
