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
Watch Lotus’s unveiling of the Emira GT4 race car at its Hethel test track, which included a dynamic demonstration of its performance
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
The new Range Rover Sport has been revealed in dramatic fashion, with James Bond stunt driver, Jessica Hawkins, taking on a challenging ascent of a 193m dam spillway in Iceland against a torrent of water flowing at 750 tonnes per minute. See how the most advanced combination of chassis technologies ever fitted to a Land Rover helped her avoid a perilous 90m drop
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
Road testing in the UK? The world’s best driving roads can be replicated in the UK (though perhaps not the weather), from the Stelvio Pass and Great Ocean Road, to the Transfăgărășan Pass. Alfa Romeo’s team shares the UK equivalents they have found for the world’s most iconic roads
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
