With electric vehicles, batteries and electronic technologies tend to get most of the attention. But it’s where the electric becomes mechanical that small incremental changes have the biggest impact.

The Recon can hit 60 miles per hour in just 3.6 seconds, and it has an electronic locking rear differential. The 2026 Jeep Recon is finally here. The automaker first announced the electric off-road ...

Locking differentials are a definite game changer when it comes to off-roading. They increase traction by forcing both tires on an axle to turn. But what is a locking differential? Car people will ...

Creating an innovation on a blank sheet of paper is challenging enough. But what if the task is to innovate an existing vehicle component over and over and over for 50 years? That has been the ...

Broadly speaking, differentials can be categorized into open, locking, and limited-slip, and each of those types of differentials can be mechanical or electronic. In its most basic format, an open ...

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