“FutureSteelVehicle” combines advanced high-strength steels, steel technologies and design optimization techniques that mimic mother nature’s design efficiency...The result - lighter, safer structures for electrified or internal combustion engine vehicles – reducing emissions over the entire life cycle!
No other event in the world brings together the automotive and steel industries in one place like Great Designs in Steel. The event offers automakers and suppliers first hand insight into what’s ahead for advanced steel technologies.
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The FutureSteelVehicle (FSV) program features steel body structure designs that reduce mass by more than 35 percent over a benchmark vehicle and reduce total life cycle emissions by nearly 70 percent!
Download the fact sheet, overview report and engineering results!
1/27/2012 - The Bloomberg News story "Rules for more efficient cars could make aluminum golden" (Jan. 1 and TribLIVE.com) contains inaccuracies. Read the real steel story here.
1/25/2012 - Advanced steel solutions reduce mass and address key performance criteria for future vehicles.
1/24/2012 - Dr. Kendall encouraged the EPA to extend the scope of analysis from tailpipe to the full life cycle impacts of materials and vehicle technologies.
Ducker survey shows the continuing growth of AHSS.
