Automotive

Automotive 30 Nov 2013

Automotive weight reduction is increasingly about avoiding extra costs

Depending on the vehicle and the total miles driven, fuel efficiency gains by 2025 could save car owners from a few hundred to as much as $4,000 per year in fuel costs alone.

Carbon Fibers 30 Nov 2013

Recycling carbon fiber back into the automobile

There is some hope on the near horizon for reclaiming carbon fibers from the estimated 40 to 60 percent scrap volume that results from the manufacture of automotive CFRP.

Out of Autoclave 30 Nov 2013

SPE ACCE 2013 Review

The SPE’s annual Automotive Composites Conference & Exhibition gets a bigger venue, an expanded program and its best attendance ever.

Automotive 30 Nov 2013

Automotive CFRP: The shape of things to come

CAFE and CO2 emission standards will drive auto OEMs to fully examine the physics of fuel economy, but will that, at last, steer them toward extensive use of carbon fiber composites?

Automotive 30 Nov 2013

Composites for every powertrain

CT columnist Dale Brosius, the head of his own consulting company and the president of Dayton, Ohio-based Quickstep Composites, the U.S. subsidiary of Australia-based Quickstep Technologies (Bankstown Airport, New South Wales), comments on the role composites have played as the automotive powertrain has evolved.

Electric Vehicles 30 Nov 2013

Natural fiber composite drives automotive sustainability

Coir felt greens an EV, improves lives in developing world.

Carbon Fibers 30 Nov 2013

Automotive, going forward?

CT editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan asks when, if and how composites professionals will be ready to meet the challenges of significant use of carbon fiber composites in automobiles.

Carbon Fibers 1 Nov 2013

Software supplier aids parts producer with greater accuracy

Paul Crosby (Crosby Composites, Brackley, Northamptonshire, U.K.) says PowerMILL software, which converts CAD models to NC toolpaths for multiaxis milling, has helped produce F1 composite parts to levels of accuracy rarely seen in the industry.

Space 31 Oct 2013

Toray + Zoltek = potential game changer?

Consultant Dale Brosius, also president of Dayton, Ohio-based Quickstep Composites LLC, the U.S. subsidiary of Australia-based Quickstep Technologies (Bankstown Airport, New South Wales), sees the Toray buyout of Zoltek as a potential auto-industry game changer.