Ford has announced that its 2017 Ford GT supercar can reach a top speed of 216 mph – the highest ever for any Ford production vehicle. Back in December, Ford announced that the first street-legal ...

Perhaps now more than ever, university research is critical. Inquisitive researchers on campuses across the U.S. are working on projects related to materials, technologies, processes and applications ...

German company RUF developed the Rodeo concept, an all-wheel-drive carbon fiber safari vehicle based on the classic Porsche 911 safari rally car. Alois Ruf, Jr. has a long relationship with the ...

Lead by their advisor, Antonio Nanni, professor and chair of the Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering at UM, the students are installing a state of the art monitoring system ...

Researchers at the Center for Advanced Die Engineering and Technology at Gifu University and Central Fine Tool Co Ltd. have co-developed a new technology that is expected to reduce vehicle weight.

The new Smart Fortwo car got a little smarter: Automotive supplier Fehrer Composite Components has developed a new lightweight roof in a sandwich-type design. The component is currently the lightest ...

Composite manufacturing specialists at the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) have made what some have called the world’s first reconfigurable carbon composite ...

One of the most eye-catching innovations on display at CES® 2017 in Las Vegas was LeEco’s two new “smart bikes” for the U.S. market, which the company says break the cycle of conventional riding. Each ...

The University of Maine (UMaine) Advanced Structures and Composites Center received three Guinness World Records for the world’s largest prototype polymer 3D printer, largest solid 3D-printed object, ...

The industry is evolving quickly to meet automotive lightweighting demands. Deadlines are looming for CAFE fuel efficiency standards in the U.S. (54.5 mpg fleet average by 2025) and for Europe’s ...

During the World Human Powered Speed Challenge, vehicle designer and manufacturer Aerovelo broke its own record for the fastest human-powered vehicle ever, going 89.6 mph in an egg-shaped bike known ...

Tethers Unlimited’s “SpiderFab” could address one of the most difficult parts about constructing satellites, space stations or other orbiting objects: getting the materials into space. Most existing ...