There we were, strapped in and ready to hit the dirt. A turn of the key yielded only silence at a time when we should have heard the throaty V-8 roar to life. A second attempt had the same results.

Modern vehicles function as sophisticated networks of electronic components working in harmony. When something disrupts this ...

The electrical system includes several subsystems that provide your vehicle with that vital spark that makes it start and then keeps it running. It's one of the many systems on a vehicle that's ...

The automobile is changing right before our eyes. It’s gradually morphing from a traditional internal-combustion-engine (ICE) vehicle into a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV), and then to an all-electric ...

We are living in a time of significant change and disruption in the automotive industry. The amount of electrical and electronic content in today’s vehicles continues to explode as consumers demand ...

The electronic content of a modern car has become one of the key brand differentiators in the market place. Alongside the obvious problems in ensuring that the latest technologies are available to be ...

This is the basic relationship among a nucleus and its orbiting electrons. Electron attraction to the nucleus is typically a function of proton concentration within the nucleus. The greater the number ...

Electricity has been doing our work for more than 100 years thanks to the efforts of inquiring minds who have paved the way for us. Thomas Edison, for example, understood that resistance to the flow ...

Vehicle electrical engineers are like kids in a sandbox these days. The transition to 48-volt vehicle architecture represents nearly endless potential for improvement in efficiency and functionality ...