Students at Eindhoven University of Technology design innovative eco-friendly cars made from bio-based and recycled materials ...

Nissan Motor Co said on Thursday it has developed techniques that help speed up production of automotive components made from carbon fibre reinforced plastics (CFRP).

Murray Leinster’s short story Things Pass By, published in 1945, includes what may be the first description of 3D printers: But this constructor is both efficient and flexible. I feed magnetronic ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story. Carbon fiber is a brilliant high-performance material with excellent strength-to-weight properties, but it remains expensive and impractical to ...

If you need to keep your racecar as light as possible, there is no better material to rely on for big pieces of it than carbon fiber. With the 2025 Mustang GTD not being based on the Ford Mustang GT3 ...

BMW is preparing to ditch carbon fiber in favor of a new natural alternative made from flax-based composites. The automaker partnered with Bcomp, a clean-technology company that has been helping BMW ...

BMW has developed an all-new material as a more sustainable replacement for carbon fibre, which is now ready for development and set to be used on production cars – including the new electric BMW M3 – ...

Carbon fiber's blend of incredible strength and low weight has revolutionized modern engineering. Today, you see it in everything from wind turbines and airplanes to carbon fiber car parts and sports ...

Update, 11:45am EDT, 4/15/2025: The European Parliament has told Motor1 Italia that carbon fiber will be removed from the amendment that would have placed it on the list of unhealthy materials in ...

A research team has developed a groundbreaking new method of producing carbon fiber while drastically reducing its energy footprint. A research team at University of Limerick in Ireland has developed ...

Carbon fiber has reached a point of borderline oversaturation, even trickling down to borderline-affordably priced performance cars in recent years. But even if we’re not longer as impressed by the ...

Abstract: In the automotive industry, lightweight structures are increasingly incorporated to achieve weight reduction, which enhances component life and performance without compromising quality and ...