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Norris and Piastri call for long-term changes to sport Mercedes’ Wolff suggests battery needs to remain Formula One is under increasing pressure to consider immediate changes and the long-term future of its new engines, with the world champion Lando Norris reiterating after the Miami Grand Prix that the only answer to address sport-wide dissatisfaction was to “get rid of the battery”. At the meet…

Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD is going high end. The firm just announced a 1,000-plus-horsepower supercar that measures its speed in seconds at both the track and the plug. Unveiled at the Beijing Auto Show under the automaker’s premium Denza brand, the Denza Z is claimed to hit 100 km/h in less than two seconds… The post BYD’s EV megawatt leap is a 1,000-hp supercar with flash charging appe…

A new technical paper titled “Towards Safe Autonomous Driving: A Real-Time Motion Planning Algorithm on Embedded Hardware” was published by researchers at TU Munich. Abstract “Ensuring the functional safety of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) requires motion planning modules that not only operate within strict real-time constraints but also maintain controllability in case of system faults. Existing... …

The concept of the automobile is currently undergoing its most radical transformation since the transition from horse-drawn carriages to combustion engines. As the industry inches closer to fully autonomous driving, the interior design of vehicles is shifting from a driver-centric cockpit to a passenger-focused lounge. One of the biggest obstacles to this new reality has...

Gordon Murray Is On A Mission To Build World’s Lightest And Most Efficient EVs Veteran Formula One designer Gordon Murray has announced a major expansion to his automotive company, the Gordon Murray Group (GMG). A £300m ($424m) investment announced today will see the creation of a new division of the group, called Gordon Murray Electronics (GME), which will focus on designing …

Safety Validation for ADAS and AD Systems  Ensuring the on-road safety of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and automated driving…

Siemens, RDW and JRC collaborate on multi-pillar approach for safety validation of automated vehicles

proteanTecs and HARMAN Ltd. focused on designing consumer experiences at automotive grade, have collaborated to advance a new approach to predictive and preventive maintenance of vehicle electronics. The post HARMAN and proteanTecs Collaborate to Advance Predictive and Preventive Maintenance for Automotive Electronics appeared first on Semiconductor Digest .

A cross-disciplinary team of faculty members from Clemson’s mechanical engineering and automotive engineering departments have come together for the research. Srikanth Pilla, an assistant professor of automotive engineering, is the principal investigator on the project. The co-principal investigators are Melur “Ram” Ramasubramanian, D. W. Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering…

When General Motors looked back on 100 years of motoring, and recognised that just 12 percent of the world has a car, it had a radical rethink. The result is the AUTOnomy: a vehicle designed around a fuel cell propulsion system in a "skateboard chassis" which can have a variety of bodies fitted. AUTOnomy provides a glimpse into GM's vision for the 21st century: a socially responsible, infinitely …