One of the first steps in cutting vehicle production costs is integrating the design chain. So says Volvo Cars of North America Inc., which last week unveiled a Web-based collaborative design system ...

Some major car manufacturers still design cars in clay before heading into production, and while that tradition doesn’t seem to be going away just yet, companies like Ford, Volvo and Rivian say mixed ...

There are more than 2 million electric vehicles (EVs) on the road today, which is enough to make them a regular feature in traffic whether a familiar-looking Tesla Model 3 or the wildly styled Toyota ...

AI transforms vehicle engineering by automating complex integration tasks and enabling continuous software evolution ...

Ford designers can now put on a pair of 3D goggles and see an entire car in the middle of the office. It's a technology that promises to speed up the car design process and make it easier to involve ...

Ford Motor Co. is taking a new approach to battery-electric vehicle design and production, and announced a $2-billion capital investment at the Louisville, KY, Assembly plant to launch a series of ...

All of the automakers have lost billions in EV investments. Ford is still determined to build an affordable midsize EV truck.

Automakers are facing big challenges. Between worker strikes, elevated manufacturing costs and supply chain constraints, along with the momentum toward near-shoring operations, the roadblocks to ...

CFD, or Computational Fluid Dynamics, is the use of computer simulations to predict how fluids like air or coolant move around and through objects. In car design, "fluid" mostly means airflow. It's ...