Sustainable Lightweighting Strategies: Long Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites for Structural Automotive Applications

近年来，燃油经济性要求和减少汽车碳足迹的政府法规推动了汽车质量减少战略。这些战略通过在材料选择和设计、可持续工程和制造方面引入创新技术，帮助原始设备制造商(OEM)平衡成本、质量和性能。由于轻量化措施与车辆的使用寿命密切相关，因此对降低汽车的二氧化碳排放具有显著的效果。

Fuel economy requirements and government regulations to reduce the carbon footprint of automobiles have driven vehicle mass reduction strategies in recent years. These strategies have helped the original equipment manufacturer (OEMs) to balance cost, mass, and performance by introducing innovative technologies in materials selection and design, sustainable engineering, and manufacturing. Since lightweighting approaches have close relations with the vehicles’ service life, they have significant effects on reducing automobiles’ CO2 emissions.