ELECTRONICS

on lasers for batteries, award-winning designs, Bosch & SiC, Toyota & H2

Precise heating for electrode manufacture. . .EV travel trailer. . .products with great designs. . .Hot Wheels custom competition. . .Honda and its motorcycles. . .Bosch buys a chip factory. . .Toyota’s fuel cell kit. . .Hyundai and the Moon. . .AI in your car. . .Mercedes and a scooter subscription. . . .

on Ram, Euro auto, Uber and EVs, Hyundai IONIQ 6, & a quick quiz

Why some interior designers in the Ram studio get high marks. . . the European auto engineering prowess diminishing. . .Renault’s electric city car. . .Uber, Shell and EVs. . .Hyundai launches the IONIQ 6. . .the best luxury brand. . .

on Batteries, Porsche decals, IRA EV money, EV payback, Lambo's 2022, Mercedes, E-Ray

Ram 1500 Revolution concept battery display. . .Porsche offers decals for 911 rally enthusiasts. . .IRA money for building EVs. . .a surprising payback period for EVs. . .Lamborghini in 2022. . .Mercedes charger strategy. . .Bugatti safe. . .Harley building a public park. . .Genesis Electrified G80. . .Corvette E-Ray. . .Toyota victorious at Dakar

on Interior Transformations, Cox Economic Insight, Vitesco and Propulsion Systems, AI for Big Rigs and Much More

“Shy tech” for interiors. . .car loans v. house loans. . .about Vitesco and the development of tech. . .Pony.ai teams with Chinese truck maker. . .Chery building its version of Bell Labs. . .the ‘23 Honda HR-V. . .less-expensive fuel cells. . .ADAS terms, part 2. . .

on Quality, Laser Welding Development, Q2 Sales Considerations, Lexus NX Hybrid & Tesla Numbers

COVID and microchip shortages didn’t help OEM initial quality. . .green lasers do a better job in welding copper. . .what do Q2 sales show about customer demand (yes, there are some inconsistencies there). . . the Lexus NX Hybrid is not just for the young. . . and why are there fewer Tesla help-wanted ads in Asia?

on Audi's Future, A-pillar Issues, Methanol & More

Audi is doing well and plans more EVs; why crossing the street can be dangerous; Geely is promoting methanol; vehicles are expensive and some of them take lots of gas at the pump; and how LiDAR can be fooled, which is not a good thing

on Polestar's Platform, Software-Defined Vehicles & EV charging in the Winter

On developing the Polestar 5 platform. . .the JLR-NVIDIA collaboration. . .Lotus’s new operation. . .EV charging in the winter. . . alternative powertrain stats. . .an EV door handle. . . BlackBerry on cybersecurity. . .the cost of dependability

on BMW Grilles, the Meaning of Luxury & Why Toyota Races

When you have an EV, you don’t need a regular grille. So here’s how BMW has transformed its execution for the iX. A record-setting Porsche Taycan. Magna creates modules for building electric pickups. What an 800-v inverter means. The ‘22 Honda Civic Si reviewed. And more.

On Tractors, Autonomy and a Clever Mercedes Concept

On giving farmers a break. . .a concept car with some actual process tech. . .advancing autonomy via vision and software. . .VW exec on EVs. . .and the sales of a brand most of us can’t afford

Special Report: Toyota & Issues Electric

Although Toyota’s focus on hybrid powertrains at the seeming expense of the development of a portfolio of full battery electric vehicles (BEVs) for the market could cause some concern among those of an environmental orientation, in that Toyota doesn’t seem to be sufficiently supportive of the environment, in their estimation. Here’s something that could cause a reconsideration of that point of view.

On Advanced Design, Brain Function, and Quantum Computing

All about a solar sedan, a new GM design campus, Volvo’s impressive XC90, Porsche first-half sales, Nissan’s brain studies (!), Lucid Care for Lucid Air, and VW’s quantum computing

On BMW Tech, VW Golf R Variant, Hyundai Elantra, and More

The forthcoming BMW flagship SUV—the 2022 iX xDrive50—has a lot of tech, some that is deliberately discrete. The Hawaiians spend a lot of money for gasoline and it would be less if they’d electrify. Euro drivers like wagons—and apparently extreme driving in them. Stellantis is spending big on going electric. And even more.

On Military Trucks, Euro Car Sales, Mazda Drops and More

Did you know Mack is making military dump trucks from commercial vehicles or that Ford tied with Daimler in Euro vehicle sales or the Mazda6 is soon to be a thing of the past or Alexa can be more readily integrated or about Honda’s new EV strategy? All that and more are found here.

On Traffic Jams, Vehicle Size, Building EVs and more

From building electric vehicles—and training to do so—to considering traffic and its implication on drivers and vehicle size—there are plenty of considerations for people and their utilization of technology in the industry.