The engineer explains how recreating a vital component made all the difference. To many auto enthusiasts, “high-performance electric car” is an oxymoron like ‘jumbo shrimp,’ ‘humble brag’ or ‘open ...
Condensation and cold combine to create that layer of ice on car windshields in winter. Tomasz Sienicki/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA If you live somewhere that gets cold in the winter, you’ve probably ...
Automotive engineers battle software complexity, regulatory delays, and integration issues as SDV development faces mounting pressure ...
Legendary race car engineer Steve Nichols has come out of retirement to launch a new supercar under his own name. Revealed on Wednesday, the Nichols N1A tips the scales at less than 2,000 pounds and ...
Mechanical engineer and Stanford professor Chris Gerdes answers the internet's automotive questions. Why aren't solar powered cars a thing yet? How do self-driving cars see? How can Teslas crash when ...
Munro Associates lead engineer Carl Crittenden not only disassembles new cars to see what makes them tick: he also reassembles old cars to make them like new again. As a member of the classic car ...
As recently as 2022, Tesla’s Cybertruck development program was struggling with basic engineering issues that impact all new vehicles, leaked internal documents show. While some aspects of the ...
Throughout history's evolutionary arc, nature has solved many of the elemental problems modern engineers face. Biomimetics is a branch of science devoted to seeking out and emulating such natural ...