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1 month ago | 
vehicledynamicsinternational.com | Chris Pickering |Adam Gavine
Vehicle dynamics is sometimes portrayed as a black art. A shadowy world of empirical tuning that’s more craft than science. The reality, of course, is quite the opposite. As far back as the 1920s, pioneers like Maurice Olley – then at Rolls-Royce – were taking a numerical approach to ride and handling. Over the years, this has given rise to increasingly sophisticated simulation techniques.
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1 month ago | 
automotivepowertraintechnologyinternational.com | Chris Pickering |Lawrence Butcher
The importance of silicon carbide (SiC) inverters in the rise of electric vehicles is hard to overstate. SiC technology has played a key role in enabling 800V architectures and the improved charging speeds these offer. Faster switching speeds, higher current capacities and a wider temperature range than traditional silicon semiconductors have also helped to send SiC inverters to the top of every manufacturer’s wish list. But what if there were something better?
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
theengineer.co.uk | Chris Pickering
The government may have softened its stance on the proposed ban of new petrol and diesel passenger cars, but the global automotive industry is still heading rapidly towards electrification. It’s a trend that’s playing out across other industries too, from residential energy storage to aerospace. And it’s one that’s opening up major gaps in the supply chain – particularly in the UK.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
racetechmag.com | Chris Pickering
Leading pressure sensor company servicing global motorsport teams and engine manufacturers for many years....
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
theengineer.co.uk | Chris Pickering
An icy road clinging to the remote, windswept mountains of Iceland’s northwest peninsula seems like a good place to talk about range anxiety. The sun is rapidly sinking towards the horizon, we’re several hours’ drive away from the nearest town and the battery indicator on the Mazda MX-30 R-EV is showing just 15 km of range remaining. This is emphatically not somewhere that you want to run out of charge.
Fortunately, Mazda has a solution.
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Nov 12, 2023 | 
theengineer.co.uk | Chris Pickering
It’s an unfortunate irony that the race to adopt greener technology could lead to millions of perfectly serviceable vehicles being scrapped before their time. While electric powertrains have been proven to deliver lower lifecycle emissions, there’s no getting away from the fact that manufacturing a whole new vehicle and disposing of the old one does carry a hefty environmental penalty – especially when that vehicle is a 12-tonne bus. Equipmake may have the solution.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
theengineer.co.uk | Chris Pickering
It’s often not the biggest but the smartest that drive innovation. That’s particularly true in these disruptive times, with the automotive industry in a race to adopt low-carbon technologies and active safety systems. A decade and a half ago, Tesla was a startup, producing less than a thousand cars a year using a chassis built in Norfolk. Now, it’s the most valuable carmaker in the world.
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Sep 3, 2023 | 
theengineer.co.uk | Chris Pickering
Engineering is the fusion of science and human creativity. It thrives on new ideas. But how much of an engineer’s time is actually spent creating or refining those ideas? Many hours can be lost in mundane and repetitive tasks such as scheduling test programmes and analysing data. In some cases, there simply isn’t enough time to go through this process for all the design concepts, and potentially promising ideas have to be abandoned.
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Jun 22, 2023 | 
racetechmag.com | Chris Pickering
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Jun 5, 2023 | 
theengineer.co.uk | Chris Pickering
The new Artura is a landmark product for McLaren. While the British supercar manufacturer has been working with hybrid powertrains on its limited-edition Ultimate Series cars for over a decade, this is the first time that the technology has been applied to a regular production model. The Artura also sees the debut of a new twin turbocharged V6 engine, designed in-house by McLaren and produced by Ricardo in Shoreham.
