After confirming the success of a flax-based alternative to carbon fiber in racing, BMW plans to implement it in its future road cars.

The EU stated this week that carbon fiber will be removed from a hazardous materials list in a proposed amendment to its End of Life Vehicles Directive.

A new EU draft proposal could classify carbon fiber as hazardous automotive material. Ban would threaten carmakers relying on carbon fiber to cut EV weight and improve range. Even if passed, the ...

The European Union is concerned about how carbon fiber gets recycled and disposed. Automakers like the material for its light weight and strength.

The lightness and strength of carbon fiber have made it a near-ubiquitous means of reducing the weight of new cars, especially heavier, battery-laden electric vehicles. However, the European Union ...

Today, carbon-fiber materials are nearly ubiquitous in the industrialized world, found in everything from hockey sticks to passenger airliners. With hundreds of thousands of tons of carbon fiber ...

Building on the trailblazing carbon-fiber-as-a-battery work started at Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology, deep-tech startup Sinonus is working to commercialize a groundbreaking new breed ...

Hennessey’s second Carbon Series Venom F5 is a master class in carbon fiber engineering and assembly. The finished car features a consistent weave pattern between all exposed panels from bumper ...

The tragic implosion of the submersible Titan could have been caused by a flaw in the vessel’s carbon fiber design.