Active steering, high-deceleration emergency braking, and rear object detection with automatic braking underscore WABCO’s autonomous-tinged commercial vehicle products headed to the Americas in 2019. “As we add technologies to our portfolio, we’re building a foundation for the development of autonomous vehicles,” said Jon Morrison, WABCO’s President of the Americas. WABCO...
Ge Aviation and Dm3d to Ramp Up 3d-printed Fan Blade Production for Ge9x Engine
GE Aviation’s next-gen GE9X high-bypass turbofan engine is poised to be the most fuel-efficient jet engine ever produced by the company. Designed to power Boeing’s new 777X long-range, wide-body airliner, the GE9X builds on GE Aviation’s previous GE90, but will incorporate a larger fan, higher bypass and compression ratios, and...
2019 Hyundai Kona Electric Goes Content and Torque Heavy in a B-class Ev
What’s so remarkable about the Hyundai Kona Electric is how unremarkable it is. Essentially an electrified version of Hyundai’s B-class SUV, if the even hotter-selling C-class SUV segment offered equivalent performance, the industry could almost call it done for electrified daily drivers and move on to long-range solutions such as...