Fuel-Cell Trucks and the Sleeper Enigma
Photo: Nikola Nikola’s fuel-cell vehicle plans indicate a sleeper version will be offered at some point, but right now, FCEV trucks are all day cabs Will the future of long-haul…
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Volvo Introduces Autonomous Solution for Transportation Ecosystem
Photo: Volvo DHL Supply Chain will be the first customer to pilot Volvo Autonomous Solutions’ autonomous truck solution and Transport-as-a-Service model. Volvo Autonomous Solutions announced it will offer a new…
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Recruitment & Retaining of Drivers
There is no question that the trucker shortage within heavy duty trucking is due to a variety of factors, especially in light of rising inflation and gas prices. With about…
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Bad Weather Still the Main Issue for Driverless Tech Sensors?
Sensing technology is the powerful tool that gives vision to next-generation automobiles. Equipped with a device array anchored by LiDAR and video cameras, the average advanced vehicle of today “sees”…
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Battery Swap Tech the Smart Option?
For the first time ever, researchers in the University of Lisbon compared the plug-in charging, hydrogen and ICE scenarios against the lesser-known battery swapping scenario. While this long-term study is…
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5G Should Accelerate Autonomous Communication
The emergence of 5G is expected to bring forth the exploration of new horizons to connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), as well as to vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication. Erik Varney, managing…
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Falken’s Tire Sensors Measure Real-Time Micro-Plastic Shed
Car tires are joining the IoT with one manufacturer installing sensors to measure the real-time wear rate of its products. In a joint project between Falken’s parent company Sumitomo Rubber…
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Yamaha Latest Automaker Promoting Hydrogen Powered ICE
Yamaha has become another Japanese automaker keen to reprise the technology of ICE powertrains fired by hydrogen. It is developing a high-performance hydrogen engine under commission from longtime partner Toyota.…
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Vital Cyber-Security Areas Automakers Must Focus On
In January, a teenager in Germany found a vulnerability in third-party software that let him remotely start 25 Teslas in 13 countries, find their locations and determine whether anyone was…
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Autonomous Vehicles Limitations of ADAS, V2V and V2X Communications
At the end of 2021, Dan Loop, vice-president and general manager of Automotive Edge Processing at NXP Semiconductors, wrote an article in All About Circuits entitled, Understanding ADAS Limitations and…
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