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 ...

Toyota has announced that it has developed a new AI technique for designing cars, this new technique is designed to help speed up the design process and make it easier for car designers to design cars ...

Researchers at the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) in Los Altos, Calif. have released a pair of papers describing a technique for incorporating precise engineering constraints into a generative ...

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 ...

Porsche set out to design its 2023 MY 911 GT3 RS vehicle for peak performance on the track. Though the FIA specifies steel rollover cages for vehicles that race officially, the company has designed ...

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 ...