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, ...

Batteries suck. They are big, heavy, not very environmentally friendly to produce, and very expensive. But unless hydrogen cars become ubiquitous, we are stuck with them. Or are we? Volvo has just ...

Viknesh Vijayenthiran April 24, 2013 Comment Now! British motorsport and engineering firm Prodrive has come out with a new technology that allows it to produce sumptuous carbon fiber panels that can ...

The HITEC project aimed to mature materials and manufacturing technology for producing thermally and electrically optimized, nanomaterial-enhanced carbon fiber composite sandwich panels for use on ...

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 ...

Trick Rides revealed its Scorched carbon 1969 Mustang widebody. It combines a Kaase Boss Nine, a Roadster Shop chassis, and ...

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 ...

Do you think your Porsche 911 is a little, well, over fed these days? If only there was a way to shed some of that weight without altering the lines of your precious super Beetle. Maybe you could even ...

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 ...

The final day of Carbon Fiber 2017 focused on enabling technologies for the expanded application of carbon fiber, as well as market forecasts about this potential growth. (See “Live from 2017 Carbon ...