automotive

Nexperia has announced new leadless ESD protection devices for CAN-FD applications. Devices are available in leadless packages with side-wettable flanks that enable AOI tools to be used. Fully AEC-Q101-qualified, the PESD2CANFDx series…

On the first day of the final month of 2020, engineer, entrepreneur, and billionaire Elon Musk received the Axel Springer Award, presented to outstandingly innovative personalities. Past award winners include fellow billionaires Jeff…

The long-awaited Battery Day at Tesla took place immediately following the Annual Meeting of Shareholders for 2020. The event, originally slated for early 2020, was delayed more than once – most recently due to the pandemic. Tesla…

Despite manufacturing halts, a drop in demand, and an uncertain recovery timeline due to the coronavirus pandemic, the global automotive power electronics market size is projected to grow from US$3.8 billion in 2020 to US$4.7 billion by…

We have belatedly realized that the 1950s are over and some of our most scathingly brilliant urban planning ideas from that era aren’t sustainable in a whole host of ways. Whether it’s the cost of infrastructure maintenance, repair, and…

Like all disruptive technologies, autonomous vehicles will have both positive and negative impacts on our lives and economies. Jobs in transportation, mining, and manufacturing industries that will be lost as a result of increased adoption…

But first — What is elastic-wave intelligent sensing? The new, but complicated technology is a combination of mechanical waves generated and propagated within any rigid objects when those objects are touched, tapped, or hit. The…

Toyoda Gosei will exhibit its newest innovation at CES 2020 in Las Vegas next week. The company will show off a novel material called e-Rubber, a next-generation rubber that moves with electricity. e-Rubber can function both as a soft,…

Neuron EV, an Irvine, California based company, has introduced an entirely modular electric bus that is being touted as the future of public transportation. The electric bus is completely modular, which means the length of the vehicle…

A California-based company, Zelectric, has been making the old new again by putting a tech twist on Volkswagon and Porsche classic models. The company got started over 13 years, toying with the idea of a Retro-meets-Futuristic hybrid…