2010 SAE Congress Returning to our Roots

摘要

"The SAE World Congress, an annual gathering of thousands of automotive engineers, is reinventing itself, like the auto industry," wrote David Shepardson with The Detroit News. The atmosphere at the recent SAE Annual Exhibition at COBO Hall in Detroit was electric--the number of automotive industry exhibitors with electric themes was the most we've ever seen. During the horsepower wars of the 1950s and 60s, auto engineers were more than happy to provide enough energy to push the biggest of the gas guzzlers to amazing speeds. Those days are over. More than a century after the first electric vehicles were replaced with cars with gasoline engines, automotive engineers are facing problems and opportunities associated with today's electric vehicles and other energy-saving technologies.