Carbon fiber is great. It's had applications across a whole spectrum of sports and technology and allows the construction of objects that are stronger and lighter than the equivalent metal object, and ...

We can understand why the owner of a common car like the Chevrolet Malibu would want to customize it to stand out a little bit from the crowd. It’s possible to personalize a car like this tastefully, ...

The automotive world has been obsessed with carbon fiber for decades, ever since the McLaren MP4/1 Formula One race car became the first to use a carbon fiber composite chassis in 1981. Since then, ...

Growing up, kids dream about having a cool, carbon fiber car, but maturing is realizing that the unique material offers more than just sleek looks. Carbon fiber is created by repeatedly superheating ...

In this video segment adapted from NOVA, hear physicist and energy expert Amory Lovins explain how to make more efficient cars by making them lighter and more aerodynamic. Explore how the use of ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Classic Recreations, the iconic builder of high-performance American-Made Shelby carbon fiber muscle cars, 69-70 Mustangs, and trucks, will reveal the first of only ten ...

Race car rolling chassis concept is incorporated into production sports car. Patent-pending carbon fiber monocoque chassis delivers maximum stiffness-to-weight ratio in high-temperature environment.

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 ...

My (immediate) family owns four cars. The oldest was manufactured in 2004. The youngest was manufactured in 2010. Three of them are hovering at or near 250,000 miles. Each of our cars, given its age ...

Carbon fiber improves everything. So why aren't we making all our cars out of it? We went to Lamborghini's factory to find out. Stronger than steel and a fraction of the weight, carbon fiber is a ...

Over the next few years, the batteries that go into electric vehicles are going to get cheap enough that an EV should cost no more than an equivalent-sized vehicle with an internal combustion engine.

New researcher has found that carbon fiber, increasingly used as a weight-saving structural material, can also be used as battery components. Specifically, carbon fibers can be used as electrodes, the ...