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A draft amendment to the EU’s End-of-Life Vehicles Directive (ELVD) suggested that carbon fiber be classified as a "hazardous material" alongside substances like lead and mercury. As news ...

Enter Carbon Revolution and its carbon-fiber wheels, stage left. Originally a plaything of the aerospace industry, carbon-fiber composites first caught the eye of the automotive industry via racing.

Now that carbon-fiber composites have migrated from the world of blank-check motorsports to semiaffordable production cars such as the BMW i3 and Chevrolet Corvette, what’s next? Is there ...

Carbon fiber is a great, albeit expensive material to use in the transportation industry. It's light, it's strong, and it also happens to look pretty neat. But, because of how it's created ...

The Titan's experimental design included a carbon-fiber hull. According to a 2017 report, the initial hull design was turned around in just six weeks. OceanGate's CEO Stockton Rush said he had ...