Intelligent vehicle lightweighting will be a critical consideration for OEMs on the road to 2035
On the road to 2035 and beyond, OEMs will come under increasing pressure to decarbonize their portfolio across the full product lifecycle. Lightweighting has long been used as a method of improving vehicle efficiency and reducing the environmental impact of a vehicle...
An innovative, affordable, and easy-to-manufacture future vehicle for Mobility as a Service
It takes some imagination to envision a future with a radically different transport system, where people travel in autonomous vehicles in a ride-hailing model. But ride-sharing is an important component in the plan to reduce global transport emissions. Developing...
Steel E-Motive Provides a Look at its Battery Packaging
This month’s Steel E-Motive reveals its first-of-its-kind battery packaging. This very sleek and efficient design uses the Advanced High-Strength Steel flat floor of the vehicle as the battery packaging’s top cover to provide the all-important sealing. The EV battery...
AHSS Insights Answers “What is 3rd Gen AHSS?”
One of the tasks we took great care in completing during the update of the AHSS Application Guidelines was to provide a definition for what constitutes a third generation (3rd Gen) Advanced High-Strength Steel (AHSS). We had been asked this question many times, and...
Conventional Rule-of-Thumb Calculations Lead to Inaccurate Press Tonnage Predictions
Applying conventional rules of thumb to the advanced steels in use today will likely under-predict the tonnage requirements. To understand why, read today’s AHSS Insights blog by Auto/Steel Partnership Executive Director, Michael Davenport. Read the blog here...
AHSS Insights Blog: Servo Press Force and Energy Considerations When Working With AHSS
Happy New Year! We're starting a new year of AHSS Insights blog talking about press force, energy and Advanced High-Strength Steels (AHSS). In this month's blog, you'll learn more about the role of press energy and force in addressing the challenges of forming and...