AN ATOM’S ADVENTURE
“A METAL ATOM IS a metal atom,” says Alan Nelson, senior vice president for battery materials at Redwood Materials, a company that has specialized in recycling. “That element doesn’t know … Continue reading
AUTOMAKER GREEN—AND NOT JUST MOOLA
IN SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS, General Motors recently announced that it had secured all of the renewable energy it needs to power all of its U.S. facilities by 2025, fully 25 … Continue reading
KEEP ON TRUCKIN’—WITH H2 PART 2
ENCOURAGED BY MITCHELL/BORRONI-BIRD/BURNS, yesterday we began a discussion of hydrogen-fuel-cell trucking. Today in Part 2, evidence for and against various ideas is offered. Is Blue Hydrogen Worth the Candle? You’ll … Continue reading
KEEP ON TRUCKIN’—WITH H2 PART 1
WHEN BILL MITCHELL, LARRY BURNS, AND CHRIS BORRONI-BIRD proposed mobility for this century, they envisioned a vehicle mix with propulsion depending upon size and distance. Based on range and infrastructural … Continue reading
BATTERY RECYCLING—MORE THAN AN ENVIRONMENTAL NICETY
AS CITED IN SAE INTERNATIONAL’S Automotive Engineering, October 2022, “Recycling battery materials is vital to the electric-vehicle future, but the way forward faces a host of hurdles.” Jim Motavalli describes … Continue reading
SKATEBOARDING INTO THE FUTURE
AUTOMOTIVE CHASSIS DESIGN has a relatively concise history: Body-on-frame follows practices dating back to horse-drawn carriages. Unibody is a 20th-century innovation. And skateboarding is likely to be the 21st-century norm. … Continue reading
DON’T FORGET HYBRIDS
LINDSAY BROOKE IS Editor-in-Chief of Automotive Engineering, the monthly magazine of SAE International. It was 1979 when I jumped ship to R&T from the Society of Automotive Engineers (its interim … Continue reading
SOLID-STATE BATTERIES: WHEN? IF? WHOSE?
THIS IS A PARTICULARLY interesting time for solid-state batteries, those, as their name indicates, using a solid material rather than liquid means of conveying their ions from post to post. … Continue reading
A.D.B. ILLUMINATION COMING OUR WAY
IT’S SORTA DÉJÀ VU all over again. In the late 1970s, the U.S. caught up with the best of European automotive headlighting. And, come 2023, we’re likely to do so … Continue reading
CATCHING UP WITH AUTOMOTIVE NEWS PART 2
YESTERDAY IN Part 1, I gleaned Automotive News tidbits of one sort or another. This continues today in Part 2 with crystal ball views of our automotive future clear out … Continue reading
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