Now in her 13th year with Nissan’s advanced planning department, Rachel Nguyen is responsible for looking at the longer-term trends affecting the automotive market and how the automaker thus responds in its future products.
DIN-SAE Spec 91381 – the first collaboration between the two standards development organizations – was developed to establishes unambiguous terms and definitions as a reference for global communication and the development of additional standards.
While GAC member companies have led the industry in introducing alternative propulsion technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the GAC supports “de-carbonizing” transportation, the organization says that there has been no modelling done to gauge the impact on the Canadian automotive sector.
Hydrogen fuel cell powertrains provide significant weight and space saving advantages over battery electric ones for heavy-duty trucks. This allows for similar packaging to current trucks and minimal design alterations for the new power source.
As a committee member, AVL will use its position to further develop and implement automated vehicle testing best practices and replicable procedures, and provide manufacturers and mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) companies with a comprehensive portfolio of physical and virtual test environments and audited capabilities.
Blatant security hacks on connected/autonomous vehicles aren’t the “big threat.” A security expert believes the top hacking targets will be hard-to-detect, and the potential source of that information: in-vehicle microphones.