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Advances and innovation in materials engineering will be key to the adaptability and success of automotive manufacturers in this competitive and evolving landscape. However, due to the prohibitive cost of carbon fibre, which is five to six times the cost of steel, and the challenges in recycling this material, its market penetration is likely to remain limited in the near future. Not only do vehicles of lower mass achieve better fuel efficiency, but they also offer better acceleration, braking and handling. In the future, these companies are likely to use technologies from fields such as machine learning to rapidly identify candidate materials with suitable properties and accelerate materials research. For now, automotive design engineers are among the leading adopters of digital material comparison platforms, such as Matmatch, to specify and source materials. For these systems to work, there should be no distinction between the experience of an individual dealer and … Read More