Automakers and their suppliers have been painting glass fiber-reinforced composite exterior body panels, including those made from sheet molding compound (SMC), for many years. SMC painting, in ...

Italian startup Levante has developed custom and standardized solar panels integrating recycled carbon fiber (rCF), thermoplastics and silicon solar cells to maximize both light weight for portability ...

Carbon fiber as we know it is one of the most impressive materials in our toolkit. Its incredible lightness and strength has seen it take hold in everything from competitive cycling, to supercar ...

Lightleaf has developed a new carbon fiber 110 W PV module for boat applications. “Our latest product is aimed at the marine market, targeting sail and power boats with limited space where weight, ...

For automobile manufacturers, the electric elephant in the room continues to be bulky and weighty battery packs. This week, Volvo unveiled an innovative potential solution to the problem that it has ...

Levante, an Italian carbon fiber solar panel company, has launched new waterproof 110 W and 55 W products that are portable, lighter weight, glass-free and made with recycled carbon fiber. The ...

One of the main impediments to making electric vehicles (EVs) a viable option for mainstream adoption continues to be the weight of batteries. Even with next-generation li-ion cells like those used in ...

C-GRID is carbon fiber grid the enabling technology that gives CarbonCast products their outstanding strength and thermal efficiency. Discover hereunder the special talk with John Leatham, Director of ...

The peeps at Sigala Designs have recently stripped an eighth-generation Chevrolet Corvette Z06 of every single body panel. It wasn't an easy job because of the strong adhesives used to fix said panels ...