As the world moves towards a greener future, adopting sustainable materials in the automotive industry is becoming imperative. Regulatory and technological changes are necessary for sustainable materials to replace traditional materials and contribute to climate change resistance. Governments should implement s...
Car manufacturers are pushing for innovation with materials that carry zero or even negative emissions and a positive environmental impact. Engineers are working to create a “circle of life” for automobiles, where they are not only sustainable but also recyclable and waste-free. As the engines...
Kai Grünitz, Volkswagen Brand Board Member for Technical Development:“In our search for new materials, we are very open to new ideas from many different industries. At Technical Development, we place a strong focus on innovative, creative and sustainable solutions ...
Relevance of natural alternative materials in automobiles. Source: Own illustration Full size image As an optional question, the participants were asked to decide which material they prefer for which interior component. The blue words are the result of the majority customer decision (see Fig. 8)....
The transition to EVs is expected to significantly increase the global demand for lithium, cobalt, nickel, and other minerals necessary for battery production. The extraction processes for these raw materials are energy-intensive, and the supply chain for lithium-ion batteries is unstable due to the...
Plastics use in automobiles is large and growing. Today, nearly 50% of vehicle interior components are made of polymers. In many cases these plastics have chemical additives that are toxic and off-gas to contaminate the air and dust inside vehicles. Also of concern, these materials are added ...
SMITH:Yeah. Of course. So there are, like, kind of, graded ranks of circuit board materials … HUIZINGA:OK. SMITH:… that as Aniruddh said, you know, might be for specialty applications where you need higher-temperature tolerance than normal or you need lower noise out of y...
Novelis presents roadmap for the sustainable use of aluminum in automobiles at Automotive Circle’s first-ever Sustainability in Automobile Production conference Event scheduled for november 29-30 in bad nauheim, germany Novembe...
For this reason, it is not surprising that both are the most studied synthetic elastomers in the field of unfilled self-healing materials. In automotive applications these two elastomers are especially important for internal and comfort parts. Li et al. [71] prepared PDMS capable of self-...
18.1.3Eco-friendly materials Eco-friendly materials are promoted for eco-friendly footwear. Materials in eco-friendly footwear can be mainly divided into three categories:sustainable materials, recycled materials, and recyclable materials. Sustainable materials refer to something whose production is supported...