The Extreme E electric off-road racing series has announced a multi-year partnership with Fox, which will see the suspension manufacturer join the championship as its official suspension partner. Fox will be providing a race-ready suspension package for the Odyssey 21 electric SUVs
DS Automobiles has developed a prototype EV that uses only electric motor regeneration instead of conventional brakes, which the company says is a potential future direction for electric vehicles. The car uses two onboard electric motors to slow the vehicle entirely through regenerative braking, up to 600kW
Electrified powertrain engineering consultancy, Drive System Design (DSD), has developed a simulation method that can highlight potential NVH issues of electric drive units (EDU) while the design is still in the model stage
Lotus has appointed Mark Stringer as the new commercial director of Lotus Engineering, the consultancy division of the business. Stringer has more than 20 years of front-line leadership experience
ZF has concluded a long-term agreement for Swedish start-up H2 Green Steel to supply 250,000 tons of steel per year from 2025 onwards, accounting for 10% of ZF’s current steel requirements
The 2022 Mercedes-AMG SL-Class roadsters will feature two of the latest suspension technologies from Tenneco’s Monroe Intelligent Suspension portfolio. The new models will be offered with CVSA2 semi-active suspension or integrated CVSA2/Kinetic suspension
Nissan is developing ‘ground truth perception’, a system that fuses information from next-generation high-performance LIDAR, radar and cameras, to dramatically enhance collision avoidance capability
rFpro, is developing a highly accurate virtual model of the handling track at Nardò Technical Center in Italy. The digital twin will enable vehicle manufacturers to accelerate development of next-generation EV platforms by testing them in a fully representative virtual environment
The installation of a new VI-grade system allows 3D simulation of Ford China’s test tracks in Nanjing, to help accelerate production development times
Prof Kumar from IIT Madras, a world-renowned expert in vehicle dynamics and tyre technology, has been appointed as technology advisor to the top executives at JK Tyre
