While Revel was the first brand to offer a FusionFiber wheelset, the technology soon made its way to other brands, including Chris King, Atomik, and Evil. CSS Composites also introduced their own ...

Nike is gearing up for the rest of 2025, rounding out their release calendar and adding a slate of new drops throughout 2026. The Nike Air Foamposite is one pair in particular that has seen a comeback ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story. Carbon fiber is a brilliant high-performance material with excellent strength-to-weight properties, but it remains expensive and impractical to ...

Ford's new Liquid Carbon package adds even more carbon fiber to the Mustang GTD. Free of paint, the weave of the bodywork is easily seen, and the sheetmetal of the doors is now also carbon composite.

If you need to keep your racecar as light as possible, there is no better material to rely on for big pieces of it than carbon fiber. With the 2025 Mustang GTD not being based on the Ford Mustang GT3 ...

While others have experimented with nanoscale carbon fibers, ORNL is the first to use long carbon fibers, said scientist Jaswinder Sharma. The chemical cost savings would exceed the price of the fiber ...

Rather than completely burning up when a spacecraft reenters Earth's atmosphere, its heat shield's outer surface is sacrificed to protect the rest of the vehicle. The carbon fibers decompose, ...

BMW‘s carbon fiber roof parts will soon be replaced with plant fiber. When the BMW M4 GT4 hits the Nürburgring for its next 24-hour race, it’ll be race-testing the same flax-based natural fiber ...

Carbon fiber's blend of incredible strength and low weight has revolutionized modern engineering. Today, you see it in everything from wind turbines and airplanes to carbon fiber car parts and sports ...

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Update: It looks like carbon fiber has dodged a regulatory bullet – for now. A representative from the European Parliament told Motor1 Italia that it plans to drop the lightweight material from the ...