Tenneco’s suspension business is celebrating five years of consecutive growth at its facility in Changzhou, China. Today the Changzhou plant is one of China’s largest automotive damper manufacturing sites, with 900 team members and an annual capacity of 18 million dampers
Dash-CAE has launched the TR01, a carbon monocoque chassis for road or race cars that is claimed to deliver a “step change” in price to performance ratio. The headline figures are a stiffness of 35,000Nm/Deg, a weight of 50kg, and a price below £30,000 (US$38,000)
ZF has optimised the components of its electric driveline and combined them into a compact system with a claimed 30% lower overall weight and a torque density of 70 Newton metres per kilogram of drive weight. ZF is also launching a Chassis Solutions division
Global expansion of VI-grade’s successful European Zero Prototypes Summit will bring regional automotive industry leaders together to showcase how simulation, driving simulators and hardware-in-the-loop technologies are accelerating new vehicle development programmes
Nidec and Renesas Electronics are co-developing semiconductor technologies for a next-generation E-axle (X-in-1 system) that integrates an EV drive motor and power electronics for electric vehicles
Tevva has completed the development of the regenerative braking system on its 7.5t battery-electric truck. Part of the development programme involved working with ZF, a global Tier 1 supplier, to integrate its Electronic Brake System (EBS) for use in zero-emission Tevva electric trucks
Tenneco has opened the Monroe European Engineering Center, a state-of-the-art, 9,600-square-metre engineering centre in Poland that will serve the company’s European Ride Control and Advanced Suspension Technologies (AST) businesses
The UNICARagil funding project applied new approaches to automated vehicles and their architecture and culminated in the presentation of four driverless prototypes. IPG Automotive was a part of the project, contributing its CarMaker simulation and test platform
VI-grade has entered into a partnership with Sound To Sight (STS), a specialist in sound design solutions for transportation. The alliance is intended to bring together the technical and creative expertise of both companies, combining NVH simulation and active sound design for vehicle development programmes
ClearMotion, a software-defined chassis company, has announced a US$32 million investment in its technology, as well as a large-scale production order from an EV automaker that may well take ClearMotion’s innovative active chassis technology toward global availability in 2024
