Electric Vehicles
SPE ACCE 2009 Show Highlights
The Society’s annual conclave highlights composites use in new hybrids and electrics and its prospects in a “post-depression” auto industry.
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Evolutionary timeline for FCVs
When will fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) be sold at production levels? Ultimately, many factors will affect that timeline, including fuel efficiency standards, the price of gasoline, commitment by automakers to produce them at affordable rates, and government funding for additional R&D.
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The new carmakers
A host of new carmakers is using composites to build vehicles designed specifically to help us be less oil-dependent.
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Automotive composites: Let's not sleep through the revolution
In Washington Irving’s 1819 short story, Rip Van Winkle wanders into the Catskill Mountains of colonial New York, meets some strangely dressed men, drinks their liquor and promptly falls asleep under a tree for 20 years.
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SPE's ACCE 2009 Show Preview
The Society’s 2009 Automotive Composites Conference & Exhibition charts an industry at a crossroads.
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SAMPE Europe/JEC Composites 2009 preview
SAMPE Europe’s 30th annual spring conclave and the nearby JEC Composites Show characterize the latest in material and process technologies.
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JEC Composites 2009/SAMPE Europe preview
 Organizers predict good turnout in poor economy for annual Paris tradeshow.
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NAIA 2009 show highlights
The Detroit auto exhibition’s hybrid and electric vehicle introductions underscore the need for lightweighting with low investment cost, which composites can provide.
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Engineering Insights: Composites Lessen Load in Fuel-Cell Demonstrator
CFRP decklid helps offset fuel-cell system weight to meet vehicle weight target.
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There’s been no getting around, lately, the pre-rollout hoopla and excitement surrounding the scheduled debut of the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
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