Carbon fiber has been used in race cars and high-end road cars for decades, but the lightweight material is still considered too expensive for mainstream cars, though that may change soon. Nissan is ...

Carbon fiber seems relatively good for the environment—it makes cars and planes so much lighter that they get way better gas mileage, right? True, but this simple analysis forgives the fact that cured ...

New legislation may change how the supercars and sports cars are made. For decades, some of the world’s elite race cars and premium sports cars have used an even lighter material than aluminium: ...

European regulators might drop the ban hammer on carbon fiber due to health and environmental concerns. Lawmakers are floating the idea of adding it to the list of banned hazardous materials, which ...

Update, 11:45am EDT, 4/15/2025: The European Parliament has told Motor1 Italia that carbon fiber will be removed from the amendment that would have placed it on the list of unhealthy materials in ...

The MP4/1’s carbon-­fiber chassis looked much like an aluminum one painted black, but midway through the season a string of two podiums and a win proved the difference. Establishing the precise ...

The lightness and strength of carbon fiber have made it a near-ubiquitous means of reducing the weight of new cars, especially heavier, battery-laden electric vehicles. However, the European Union ...

Carbon, sixth on the periodic table of elements, is one of the most abundant substances in the known universe. This excited little atom is happy to form bonds with nearly any other element it can, ...

Carbon, sixth on the periodic table of elements, is one of the most abundant substances in the known universe. This excited little atom is happy to form bonds with nearly any other element it can, ...

The N division isn’t messing around. Hyundai‘s relatively new performance arm has been putting out some of the most exciting and affordable performance cars on the market, such as the Kona N, Elantra ...

Carbon fiber is a material with some very unique and valuable properties. In fact, it offers the best stiffness –to-weight ratio of any material you are likely to find, either made from metals or ...