Automotive manufacturers are exploring a variety of new methods and materials which will enable them to produce vehicles that are stronger, lighter, and more suited to what many believe will be an autonomous and electric driving culture of the future.
While many may have heard of carbon-fiber and similarly exotic-sounding and expensive materials, what is probably more likely is that heavier iron parts will be replaced with steel, and steel parts will be replaced with whatever is lighter than that – plastics, perhaps, or new, lighter types of steel.
One new type of steel that is currently being discussed widely is referred to as “advanced high-strength steel”, or AHSS. [Read more…] about Steel market: Automakers exploring new materials to make vehicles lighter