BMW plans to release within two years of full carbon fiber steering wheel
Recently, foreign media reports, BMW is focused on the research and development of lightweight components, If everything goes smoothly, BMW will release full carbon fiber steering wheel within two years.
According to the latest news, in addition to the full carbon fiber steering wheel, BMW is still trying to develop a carbon fiber and aluminum material to build lightweight wheels, this new wheel will be lighter than conventional aluminum wheels about 25%.
In early 2012, we had reported large-volume applications BMW carbon fiber material in the production car news. It is understood that, in order to reduce the BMW CFRP (carbon fiber reinforced composite) material costs and achieve mass production, has been jointly developed with partners SGL a CFRP manufacturing model, and because BMW is chosen slightly lower level of industrial-grade CFRP materials, which can be controlled at about half the cost of traditional carbon fiber material, which makes extensive use of lightweight BMW parts as possible, as the full carbon fiber steering wheel will be the first application in the future Which models, we need to wait for news from the official.
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