New forms of steel for stronger, lighter cars
Payne Institute Faculty Fellow John Speer contributed to this article about how automakers are tweaking production processes to create a slew of new steels with just the right properties, allowing them to build cars that are both safer and more fuel-efficient. The new approaches by automakers are yielding ways to tune steel to protect soft human bodies when vehicles crash into each other, as they inevitably do — while curbing car weights to reduce their deleterious impact on the planet. August 5, 2024.