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Lux: carbon fiber to go mainstream in automobiles by 2025

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Driven by a faster-than-expected pace of technology development, carbon-fiber reinforced plastics (CFRPs) will be poised to gain widespread adoption for automotive lightweighting by 2025, according to a new report from Lux Research, “Scaling Up Carbon Fiber: Roadmap to Automotive Adoption.”. Earlier post.)

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Toray to enter large tow carbon fiber business via $584M acquisition of Zoltec; wind and automotive markets

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Zoltek is a large two carbon fiber manufacturer; large tow carbon fiber is carbon fiber with 40,000 or more filaments applied for applications such as wind turbine blades and reinforced plastics compounds, and is produced on modified acrylic staple fiber production lines for textiles. per share).

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BASF forms lightweight composites team for development cooperation with automotive industry

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The automobile components to be produced from these materials in the future will be able to withstand high loads despite their light weight. Both solutions employ novel curing mechanisms: thanks to their low initial viscosity, they impregnate the fiber structures very well and then cure within only a few minutes.

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GM Unveils EN-V Concepts for Future Urban Mobility

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By comparison, today’s typical automobile weighs more than 1,500 kilograms and is three times as long. In addition, today’s automobiles require more than 10 square meters of parking space and are parked more than 90% of the time. Autonomous operation. Smaller, smarter design. São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro mega-region, 43 million people.

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Driving the VW e-Golf; strategy, assembly in Wolfsburg, Braunschweig battery plant

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As the number two OEM in the automobile business in the world, it only makes sense for us if we see a certain volume behind it. Since 2007, it has also been the site for the development and production of battery systems for electric vehicles. Soeren Hinze, Volkswagen Electric-Traction (EL) Technical Development. (Dr. Bottom right.

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