Rheinmetall has recently released a heat pump system for EVs, which it says can be used as a plug-and-play component…
Author: Lawrence Butcher
Lawrence Butcher
Lawrence has been covering engineering subjects – with a focus on motorsport technology – since 2007 and has edited and contributed to a variety of international titles. Currently, he oversees Automotive Powertrain Technology and Professional Motorsport World magazines as editor.
In 2022, Italtecnica, a family-run engine building business based in Cambiano, Italy, unveiled a sequentially twin-turbocharged, three-liter V6 featuring a…
Toyota has outlined its future powertrain development activities, encompassing both BEV, hybrid and ICE technologies, under the banner ‘Lets’ change…
A high-performance hydrogen ICE vehicle, based on the Ligier JS2 R race car, has been unveiled by Bosch Engineering and…
What is sustainable? It turns out the answer is quite complicated. Take, for example, a conversation I had with a…
An automatic transmission case is a very complex casting incorporating a sophisticated valve body with multiple cross-channels and passages. Often…
Most automotive manufacturers are currently planning to deploy silicon carbide-based (SiC) traction inverters in their higher-performance EVs, as they look…
In theory, VW’s ID.5 GTX is simply a sleeker version of the ID.4, the latter being a perfectly competent EV…
For many car buyers with modest budgets and a family to transport around, the switch to full EV is simply…
Automotive Powertrain Technology International magazine will be attending The Battery Show Europe 2023, in Stuttgart, Germany, from May 23-25, as…
