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with the first electric full-size pickup
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CONTENTS
FEATURES
18
Pickup shocker
COVER STORY
With the R1T, Rivian emerges as the startup most likely to build the
electric vehicle all of America will want to own.
REGULARS
2
Editorial: Rivian out-innovates
the Detroit 3
4
SAE Standards News
5
Supplier Eye
6
The Navigator
7
What We’re Driving
8
Technology Report
8
BP’s Nexcel sealed-cell oil system an alternative
for controlling GHG emissions |
FUELS | LUBRICANTS
9
BorgWarner demos next-step electrification
components |
PROPULSION
11
Ford Advanced Manufacturing Center investment
to speed production innovations |
MANUFACTURING
12
JLR uses predictive technology to reduce
motion-sickness risk |
TESTING | SIMULATION
21
Plastics spur tech innovations
MATERIALS
The SPE Innovation Awards recognize vehicle OEMs and their
supply chains for novel material developments and applications.
24
A lesson in Multiphysics
MODELING & SIMULATION
OEM engineers reveal how new software from Comsol improved
their modeling and analysis of EV battery performance and audio-
system sound quality.
26
Heat pumps—expensive but
worth it?
THERMAL SYSTEMS | TESTING
They add 50% to the cost of the Jaguar I-Pace climate-control
system, but improved designs are indicating the cost can be
recovered—whether for a Jag or an electric school bus.
13
Road Ready
13
Jeep’s Gladiator takes up arms in midsize-
pickup battle
14
Porsche reveals eighth-generation of fabled 911
15
Ford engineers a tech barrage with 2020
Lincoln Aviator
16
Palisade SUV new Hyundai flagship 
16
Hyundai Nexo out-spaces Toyota and Honda FCVs 
ON THE COVER
Rivian’s R1T battery-electric pickup truck isn’t slated to be on sale
until the fall of 2020, but it was the uncategorical hit of the 2018
Los Angeles show where it made its world debut. With a driving
range of up to 400 miles and a raft of clever features enabled by its
electric propulsion, many believe the R1T’s unveiling gave the
pickup-reliant Detroit-based automakers plenty to ponder. (Rivian)
28
Product Briefs
Spotlight: Lidar & Radar and Electronics
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30
Reader Feedback
31
Companies Mentioned, Ad Index
32
Q&A
AAM’s Jeffrey Nichols discusses drive axle innovations
Automotive Engineering®,
January 2019, Volume 6, Number 1.
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January 2019
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EDITORIAL
Bill Visnic
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EDITORIAL
Rivian out-innovates the Detroit 3
The plugged-in vehicle that graces this
month’s cover answers the ongoing
question: Who will be first to produce a
battery-electric fullsize pickup truck?
Because unless one of the pickup in-
cumbents springs their own BEV sur-
prise before 2020, that answer is most
likely
Rivian.
Skeptics snort that Rivian is yet an-
other upstart OEM with outsized ambi-
tion. Read my colleague Bill Visnic’s
insightful reporting on p. 18 and judge
the truck and its technologies for your-
self. Regardless of whether the naysay-
ers are right or not,
Rivian’s R1T electric pick-
up is a milestone. I’m bet-
ting that five years from
now, other OEMs will have
followed suit.
Of course, automotive
history is littered with
milestones that failed in
the marketplace. Is the R1T
more akin to the 1934
Chrysler
Airflow, itself a
commercial flop despite
pioneering a unibody
structure and forward-
looking aerodynamics? Or
is it the pickup analog of
the
Tesla
Model S—a dis-
ruptor whose success
spurred an entire industry
toward BEVs?
My first chance to inspect the R1T
was at its official L.A. show debut. The
truck and its development team, led by
ex-McLaren program director Mark
Vinnels, were mobbed all day—but no
more so than the
Jeep
Gladiator, which
serves as the R1T’s counterpoint. While
on the Rivian show stand, I ran into op-
eratives I know from the Detroit 3. They
were examining the new entry with
their competitor’s steely eye—and a few
measuring devices.
“Did you notice that the electric bed
cover is production-ready?” asked one.
“What do you think of the cab’s integral
cargo tunnel?” another queried.
I noted that these features—along
with the R1T’s “skateboard” chassis/
battery pack, unit-construction trac-
tion modules and robust suspension
system—appear to be impressively
engineered. The bed cover and unique
cargo tunnel have immediate show-
room appeal.
Thus, my response to my OEM
friends:
Rivian beat you!
Why haven’t your companies, I
asked, bothered to show an electric-
pickup feasibility exer-
cise—at least to inform
the public that you’re on
the case? Why not
Ford,
which built electric
Rangers back in the
1990s for ZEV compli-
ance. Why not
GM,
the
skateboard pioneer
whose EV engineering
“bench” is among the
industry’s deepest. Why
not
FCA,
now breaking
ground with 48-volt hy-
brid trucks and Jeeps?
Shaking his head, one
replied: “Many of us inter-
nally are asking the same
question.”
As happened with the
Model S, the OEM pickup kings allowed
themselves to be out-innovated by a
scrappy start-up. Its engineering chief
hails from a British supercar boutique.
Much of its design talent was recruited
from the kings’ own studios.
Rivian still needs to prove basic pick-
up durability—how waterproof is the
battery pack? How does payload and
trailer towing affect battery range? But
its real challenge is bringing the R1T and
its SUV spinoff to sustained volume pro-
duction, with high quality. They have
much to prove before 2020. But Rivian’s
historical milestone is established.
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DESIGN
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Creative Director
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Why haven’t
the Detroit
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to show an
e-pickup—
at least to
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the case?
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