Following in the tire-tracks of its older, larger and wagon-variant siblings,the 2012 Toyota Prius C has been awarded the coveted Top Safety Pick Award by the Insurance...
The new Mercedes-Benz A-Class, due to begin sales in Europe in September 2012, features a wide choice of gasoline and diesel engines with up to 26% lower fuel consumption...
Belgium-based Prayon Group has obtained a worldwide sublicense under a portfolio of key patents for the manufacture, sale and use of lithium metal phosphate (LMP), including...
Researchers from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Eaton have demonstrated the application of downspeeding and supercharging a diesel vehicle, in conjunction with...
The danger of a high voltage electric shock is ever present in the minds of the people who drive today’s all-electric cars. Couple that with the fear of running out of...
We love DIY engines, and this has to be one of the best! Making an engine yourself gives it a whole new character - it’s your creation onto which you breathe life. Russel...
Richard Soja, Systems Engineer, shares the background behind the industry's most powerful microcontroller for automotive powertrain systems, the multicore Qorivva MCU...
The downsizing of engines is a trend which has now been adopted by most car manufacturers. First, we had Fiat’s lovely little turbocharged V-twin and then came the 1...
The aftermarket world is paying more and more attention to the Mercedes SLS AMG and the German supercar has recently receive a new performance package, one that comes...
In cooperation with project partners from BASF, Munich Technical University, and the University of Hamburg, scientists at Siemens’ global research unit Corporate Technology...
For years, spark plugs have been used to ignite the compressed fuel-air mix inside the cylinders of a gasoline engine to produce power. Now a new prototype engine is...
The Qorivva MPC5746M Power Architecture MCU is Freescale's first powertrain device supporting more than two processing cores and peripherals to meet next-generation advanced...
Whatever design challenges you encounter, Freescale's broad portfolio of automotive microcontrollers, integrated circuits and sensors solutions, plus our growing enablement...
The 32-bit MPC5746M Qorivva MCU is built on Power Architecture technology and is our first powertrain device with more than two processing cores. The MPC5746M addresses...
Freescale's Qorivva MPC57xx family of 32-bit microcontrollers built on Power Architecture Technology , is designed for automotive powertrain applications , body control...
While modern in car satnav systems can draw on real-time traffic congestion data and suggest alternative routes for drivers to avoid high traffic areas, Honda has taken...
The engineers from BMW have been known to make some beautifully melodic powerplants over the years, but the Bavarian automaker has more recently taken a decidedly different...
Several major automotive manufacturers think automated and semi automatic driving will be here in the relatively near future. Google has been working on completely automated...
The Qorivva MPC560xB/C/D family of 32-bit microcontrollers includes the latest in integrated devices for automotive body electronics applications. These scalable Power...
Electric-drive vehicles are efficient, but not when they are used as video game joysticks. Then they're just silly. But that's kind of the idea behind EBall, a strange...
