Chief Technology Officer Dr. Ben Patel details Tenneco’s latest system solutions developed to address two key goals for commercial trucks: reducing criteria pollutants and improving fuel economy.
Tenneco executives discuss "the most exciting space in truck and off-highway at the moment," (hint: the Asian markets, driven by the regulatory changes) as well as the main challenges in the development of its next generation of aftertreatment systems.
The amount of software and data used by more sophisticated digital systems is likely to surpass the capabilities of flash embedded on microcontrollers, forcing engineers to add discrete flash memory to the BOM.
Terex says its new line of skid steer loaders and compact track loaders were specifically designed for rental stores and contractors working in site preparation, construction, landscaping, infrastructure development, and demolition applications.
A group of aerodynamicists from Tesla chose Exa’s PowerFLOW CFD software to examine two alternative methods of simulating aerodynamic performance in the presence of realistic on-road crosswind for the Tesla Model S sedan.
Tesla engineers have previously talked about a potential mixed-materials strategy as they move down the retail-price ladder. The prospect of an aluminum-intensive Model 3 raises the question of how profitable a $35,000 EV will be when it carries 60-80% of the battery capacity of the basic $71,200 Model S 70.