SAE Truck & Off-Highway Engineering: April 2020
- Content
- Shifting design of autonomous architectures
Electronic controls centralize while providing commercial-level reliability. - Next steps toward battery-electric Class 8 trucks
Employing a common architecture and shared technologies allows Volvo Trucks to speed up electric-truck conversion, but battery technology and infrastructure still prove challenging. - Moving metal AM forward
Additive-manufacturing system providers still see technical and throughput challenges, but significant developments and market inroads will be made in 2020. - ConExpo roundup
New equipment launched in Las Vegas ranges from small electric machines to large next-gen excavators and everything in between. - Editorial
ConExpo excels amid COVID-19 - JDPS expands lineup, introduces new 13.6- and 18-L engines
- New standard will ease grade-control data sharing between construction machines
- FPT reveals compact F28 off-road diesel, hybrid variant
- AI moves into military boards and subsystems
- EVs are coming, but challenges, alternative fuels will slow turnover
- New CM Labs excavator simulator training offers GPS guidance, HMI experience
- Caterpillar reveals seven new next-gen excavators, increases push for remote control
- Case unveils fully-electric backhoe loader, begins delivery this year
- JLG develops self-leveling boom lift
- Hyundai reveals compact electric excavator prototype
- Q&A
Topcon's Murray Lodge talks machine control systems at ConExpo/Con-Agg 2020
- Shifting design of autonomous architectures