The strategic partnership integrates Addfor’s AI-based software algorithms with VI-grade’s driving simulators and HiL rigs, to enhance innovation and collaboration in vehicle development
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Automotive brake and clutch supplier, AP Racing, reports it is experiencing “a period of unprecedented growth”, with an increase in demand from OEMs and the motorsport industry over the last 12 months requiring the launch of an active recruitment programme
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
In order for a driving simulator to be a useful tool for motorsport or F1 teams, it must display good correlation to a real race car. Dynisma’s tech experts discuss how a motion platform can give a racing driver the same cues they would feel in reality
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