Back in the dark ages—known to some as the '80s—it took twice as much effort to make half as much horsepower. The payoff for turning down the journals on a 400 Chevy crank, dropping it in a 350 block, ...

Gigacasting confers advantages such as improved car body stiffness, reduced manufacturing cost and reduced assembly time and cost. Credit: Idra Group. In September, Toyota unveiled a prototype of its ...

Tesla, amid falling sales and increasing competition, has abandoned plans for an innovative one-piece gigacasting manufacturing process. Initially aiming to revolutionize manufacturing and reduce ...

Volvo is spending $1.1 billion upgrading its Swedish auto plant for electric-car production. It's taking a page out of Tesla's playbook by introducing the process of megacasting. Volvo aims to be an ...

The Fraunhofer ILT and MacLean-Fogg have jointly produced a complex die casting tool inlay using Laser Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB/M). The specially developed L-40 tool steel enables the additive ...