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Electric vehicle battery pack covers have usually been made of steel or aluminum. Now there are polymer and polymer composite materials that can be used for battery boxes and contribute to both lightweighting and performance. These options are covered in Next Generation Battery Pack Housing – Materials, Processing, and Design, an article written by EWI...

View the e-book now! Is the U.S. trucking industry ready for electromobility? How much progress has been made to date to address the manufacturing challenges of electric and hybrid trucks for interstate transport? What advances are on the horizon? And how can heavy vehicle manufacturers take advantage of these new innovations and technologies? These questions...

Laser-welded blanks offer many advantages in automotive closures and structures, but base-material necking and cracking can be an issue. To provide better data for FE simulation modeling, EWI has developed a “mini-dogbone” tensile test for LWB formability evaluation. Hyunok Kim, EWI Forming Center Director, describes this work in Evaluating Laser-welded Blank Formability and Predicting Potential...