The new economics of lightweighting
Automotive materials now prioritize sustainability, emissions, resilience, and recyclability.
For most of the past century, the automotive industry’s materials hierarchy was comfortably settled. Steel was cheap and ubiquitous. Aluminum was lighter and pricier. Carbon fiber belonged to supercars and motor racing. Engineers worried about strength, weight and cost; sustainability sat somewhere in the corporate-affairs department.
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