Carbon-fiber composites are moving from the speedway to the highway in North America. The latest example is the 2003 Dodge Viper, which is using the material for door inner panels, windshield ...

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 ...

There was a time there in the 2000s when carbon fiber was the hottest thing, aesthetically speaking. People (and automakers) were installing on their cars expensive carbon fiber hoods, trunk lids, ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to the latest market study released by Technavio, the global carbon fiber in the automotive composites market is expected to grow at a CAGR of close to 10% during ...

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 ...

A young man wearing a black lab coat with "Prototipi" on the back and a raging bull over the heart is enthusiastically talking about the history of carbon fiber. Behind him a machine flexes a ...

MUNICH—As a perennial fan of “How It’s Made” videos, my visit last month to GE’s Global Research Center in Munich was particularly fascinating. Although the campus is not involved with any actual ...

BAC has unveiled a version of its street-legal Mono track car fitted with body panels made from graphene. The advanced material is similar to carbon fiber but consists of sheets just one atom thick.