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 ...

GM is looking to expand its vehicle design, development, and testing using virtual processes. The shift is expected to reduce development time and costs through the elimination of a significant ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

General Motors Corp. is expected to announce as early as next week that it will radically restructure its vehicle design process, cutting as many as 400 jobs and trimming its notorious bureaucracy to ...