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This Week in Engineering explores the latest innovations and tech trends in engineering from academia, government, and industry. We cover topics in energy, transportation, aerospace, manufacturing, infrastructure, and much more.
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Volvo’s Autonomous, Production Ready Class 8 Truck Rolls Out
Volvo Autonomous Solutions has unveiled Volvo’s first-ever production ready autonomous truck at the recent ACT Expo in Las Vegas.
The Volvo VNL Autonomous combines Volvo’s commercial vehicle expertise with autonomous driving technology from Aurora to create a purpose-designed and purpose-built autonomous truck that will be able to operate on line haul routes across the United States.
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A new, massive V-16 for possibly the world’s most exotic sports car
Bugatti, the maker of ultra high-performance cars is making what may be the last hypercar internal combustion engine: a monstrous V16 that is expected to generate over thousand horsepower. The car it will power may challenge the current hypercar speed record, which is over 300 mph.
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An Aviation First as AI-Powered F-16 Dogfights Human Pilots
AI may finally replace pilots in combat aircraft.
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How AI Can Solve the Green Energy Challenge
Argonne National Laboratory has a plan for big data teamed with artificial intelligence.
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Nuclear Fusion Moves Closer to Commercial Power Production
Longview Fusion Energy Systems Inc., has signed a memorandum of understanding with civil engineering giant Fluor to build a commercial pilot plant for grid electricity generation, using Longview’s solid-state laser driven, inertial confinement technology.
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Fuel Agnostic Engines: The Death of Diesel Fuel?
Venerable diesel engine builder Cummins has introduced a fuel agnostic heavy truck engine that uses an interesting modular design to create a single internal combustion powerplant capable of operating on diesel fuel, biodiesel, and gaseous fuels such as hydrogen, biogas or natural gas.
Nonetheless, the fuel infrastructure will be dominated by kerosene type liquid fuels for the foreseeable future.
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