Composites are formed with the combination of two or more materials with different properties. The diverse materials work together for giving the composite exclusive properties, but within the composite, different materials can be easily set apart.
Composites in Automotive Industry: Need of the Hour
With fossil fuels dominating the world’s energy consumption, transport being heavily reliant on oil. Furthermore, with automobiles contributing nearly 33% of the global emissions, development of more sustainable cars is a priority.
For manufacturing these vehicles, automakers make use of composites to encapsulate battery modules or inclusions in strong carbon-fiber composites. As the requirement for EVs and hydrogen fueled vehicles is on the rise, composite techs are growing for meeting the needs of manufacturers for battery manufacturing.
Furthermore, Porcher Industries, has introduced a new flax fiber-based thermoplastic composite range for automotive. These flax fibers are put to use as composite stiffeners and are made in France from development to weaving. They can be injection molded, thermos compressed, and are recyclable and sustainable because of snowballing requirements from automakers for composite materials that are eco-friendly, durable, attractive, and effective.
This new environmentally-friendly range is designed for dashboards, car door interiors, and other decorative elements. The diverse properties of flax dying, weave type, thickness, etc. allow to associate numerous inputs and provide quite a few possibilities.
Coming to a Conclusion
Composites have gained enormous popularity in the automotive industry for making a considerable contribution for coping up with automakers’ sustainability and weight reduction goals as they have a major role to play in making a vehicle lighter in weight, higher stiffness and thermal resistance properties making them a fine substitute of metal for battery.
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