As automakers seek to reduce the curb weight of conventional and electric vehicles (EVs), metal chassis components have become a significant target for conversion to composites or hybrid systems.

This awesome 3D printed RC car chassis switches to GPM differentials with hardened steel parts, reducing bearing race wear in printed housings ...

Founded in 1913 and shuttered in 1937, the Duesenberg Automobile and Motors Company embodied America’s take on the ultra-luxury automobile. Chassis 2611 is the final show car from this automaker, as ...

The automotive industry continues to be a hotbed of innovation, with activity driven by safety concerns and enhanced comfort requirements, and growing importance of technologies such as air dampers ...

The way Chris Borroni-Bird sees it, the skateboard chassis—the architecture that underpins most of today's battery-electric vehicles—would have been invented by someone else if General Motors hadn't ...

When Jam Handy produced “No Ghosts” for Chevrolet in 1935, it would have been tough to find an abandoned, haunted-looking house in Detroit (we're actually not sure where this was filmed, but Jam Handy ...

Hitachi Automotive Systems (HAS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi announced that it has granted KPS Capital Partners a put-option agreement for the acquisition of 100% of Chassis Brakes ...

The idea of the self-contained EV skateboard chassis has become so alluring that startups, suppliers and even automakers are marketing them as plug-and-play solutions on which customers can simply add ...

Placing an automotive body atop a separate frame evolved directly from the design of horse-drawn carriages. In fact, the earliest horseless variety even looked like their predecessors. Shared ...

What Defines an Automotive Platform or Architecture? Different companies define platforms and architectures differently. American automakers classically defined "platform" as a set of critical shared ...