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Schaeffler’s high-performance ball bearing offers better range

They literally move the world as no powertrain can do without bearings ─ be it electric cars, hybrid vehicles or internal combustion engines. Schaeffler has now developed a special high-performance ball bearing with an integrated centrifugal disc.

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Kennemetal’s additively-manufactured boring tool

Kennametal has created a new machining tool leveraging its "KENionic" technology, which is aimed at tackling industry requirements on the precision production of motor and transmission housings.

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Tata Passenger Electric Mobility launches its first Pure EV architecture – ‘acti.ev’

Tata Passenger Electric Mobility (TPEM), have introduced its first advanced Pure EV architecture – acti.ev (pronounced as active). acti.ev stands for (Advanced Connected Tech-Intelligent Electric Vehicle). The acti.ev architecture is based on the key pillars of Performance, Technology, Modularity, and Space Efficiency and consists of four layers:

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DiL system cuts physical testing

Horiba MIRA has opened a driving simulator centre in the UK with driver-in-the-loop technology (writes Nick Flaherty). The £4 million centre aims to help established car designers, start-up vehicle manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers to develop new vehicles.

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First Frauscher/Porsche eFantom ready for launch

Porsche and Frauscher Shipyard have presented the first production model of their electric 850 Fantom Air. Equipped with powertrain technology from the forthcoming all-electric Porsche Macan, it uses components of the Premium Platform Electric on which the Macan is based. This includes a permanently excited synchronous electric motor, whose peak power for the eFantom has been limited to 400 kW, and the associated power electronics.

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Comau announces automated production system for NIO e-drive systems

Comau has implemented a turnkey solution to automate the manufacturing of NIO’s next-generation e-drive systems. The company says it ensures fast and reliable co-line production for the EV manufacturer’s third-gen induction and permanent magnet...

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Bentley unveils recreation of the Blower by The Little Car Company

Bentley Motors and The Little Car Company has unveiled a road-legal, 85 per cent scale recreation of the most famous Bentley in the world. ‘Blower Jnr’, a recreation of the 1929 4½-litre Supercharged Team Car No. 2 in Bentley’s Heritage Collection, is the first road-legal car from The Little Car Company and the most sophisticated city car ever built.

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Tool chain for ZEVonUDS standard

Vector Informatik has developed a tool chain for the emerging ZEVonUDS standard for onboard diagnostics (OBD) in EVs (writes Nick Flaherty). The standard, SAE J1979-3, details how OBD data is read from vehicles using an external diagnostics device called a scan tool. This can be used to monitor functions in ECUs that have an influence on vehicle efficiency, and the monitoring functions must be available whether emissions are caused directly by an IC engine or indirectly by generating electricity to charge a traction battery in the vehicle.

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Magna launches modular e-decoupling unit for battery EVs

Magna has announced the start of production of a modular e-decoupling unit to support multiple battery EV programmes for a German premium OEM. The unit is an electromechanical device that disconnects an EV’s...

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Head of Bosch Mobility Solutions talks EV tech

Arun Srinivasan, head of Bosch Mobility Solutions in the UK, says that, as a Tier 1 automotive supplier, the company is well-placed to assess which technologies in which sectors are best placed to reduce the environmental impact of road transport, particularly by eliminating tailpipe emissions (writes Peter Donaldson).