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Will new federal funding for charging stations change the US landscape? Taite R. McDonald from Holland & Knight LLC demystifies the infrastructure bill on SAE Tomorrow Today Ep.98.

How is energy supporting innovation? Jigar Shah from the DOE's Loan Programs Office will share how the LPO is transforming energy infrastructure in the US, on SAE Tomorrow Today Ep. 154

'Level 2+': Making automated driving profitable, mainstream

As obstacles to EV adoption mount, maintaining a robust ICE supply base is crucial.

Panic braking can cause an “in-position” unbelted occupant to become “out-of-position.” Although the braking event dynamics and initial positioning of the occupant affect the final position at time of impact (if any), general trends are assumed. FMVSS208 now includes “out-of-position” (OOP) performance for Anthropomorphic Test Devices (ATDs) sizes twelve month to six year-old. Airbag suppression technologies currently address that range of OOP occupants. The objective of this study is to develop an approach to defining OOP test positions for the recently released 10 year old ATD and to assist restraint engineers in developing strategies to help reduce the risk of inflation induced injury to the larger out-of-position child. A series of panic brake tests was conducted with the 10 year-old Hybrid III to study panic braking kinematics. Antilock braking (ABS) generated the desired constant deceleration from high initial speeds (40 to 60mph) in three types of vehicles.

In many countries of the world, carburetor motorcycles are the major transportation system for people. The large volumes of these motorcycles contribute to high levels of urban emissions and this fact promotes the relevant emissions regulations to become more stringent. This paper presents an approach to satisfy various new emissions regulations such as Euro-III and Taiwan 4th generation emissions regulations by optimizing the 4-stroke PFI (Port Fuel Injection) engine management system (EMS) and after-treatment system.

The challenge for the diesel engines today is to reduce harmful emissions, such as particulate matter (PM) and Nitrogen oxides (NOx), and enhance the fuel efficiency and power, which are its main advantages. To meet this challenge, DENSO has developed an advanced common rail system (CRS) that uses piezo actuated fuel injectors capable of delivering up to five injection events per combustion cycle at 180MPa, currently the world's highest commercially available diesel fuel injection pressure. The DENSO piezo injector incorporates an internally developed piezoelectric element that energizes quicker than its solenoid counterpart, thereby reducing the transition time for the start and end of the fuel injection event. The piezoelectric element and unique passage structure of the DENSO injector combine to provide a highly reliable and responsive fuel injection event.

An exchange of information between the British and American groups working on this problem is being made. This commendable cooperation is indicative of the wide scope of these studies, and it is to be hoped that, as an outgrowth of this extensive cooperation, a solution will be found for the problem of making the laboratory ratings of motor fuels agree with ratings in cars which will be so satisfactory as to be universally acceptable.

A “system dynamics” model of the resource-fuel engine-use complex and a “mixed economy” Energy and Ecology Cybernetics Corporation should be integral parts of the effective management of the unprecedented development of society's twenty-first century mobile-dispersed power system.

The program was a co-operative effort of the Centre of Energy Studies of the Technical University of Nova Scotia, the Mobile Sources Division of the Air Pollution Control Directorate, Environment Canada and the Prince Edward Island Energy Corporation. Five hundred and twenty vehicles were tested during the period. The program was well received by the public and indicated that only 32% of the vehicle fleet were within specification when initially tested.