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New Video! Steel Your Strength
Steel Strength, the Backbone of the Automotive Industry For decades, the steel industry has pioneered a whole new class of materials that are 50% stronger than their predecessors. At the core of this innovation lies the ever-growing Advanced High-Strength Steel (AHSS) family. No other automotive material compares to the variety of steel strength levels today. […]
AHSS Insights Blog by WorldAutoSteel
As of 10 January, right to your desktop WorldAutoSteel, began a new blog created specifically for the automotive design and engineering community, AHSS Insights. In it you will find helpful information on the use of Advanced High-Strength Steel (AHSS). Hands-on professionals from the global automotive industry are encouraged to offer feedback and dialogue with our technical […]
New LCA Case Study on BEV Life Cycle Energy Demand
Material Matters: A Case Study As the emissions resulting from driving the car (tank-to-wheels) are reduced with more efficient powertrains, there will be a greater chance that use-phase only regulations could result in unintended consequences. It is predicted that by 2020, emissions from the vehicle production phase could dominate over the use phase. It is […]
High-level Findings on Life Cycle Assessment Converge at Conference in New Hampshire, US
ACLCA LCA XVII Conference Wrap-up by WorldAutoSteel Technical Director, Russ Balzer Recently Russ Balzer, WorldAutoSteel’s Technical Director, and one of our own Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Advocates, attended and served as a presenter at a major LCA conference in New Hampshire, US. The American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA) sponsored its 17th conference October 3 […]
Life Cycle Assessment Regulations Can Benefit Automotive Sector
WorldAutoSteel to Raise Awareness of Value of LCA throughout October 2017 During the month of October 2017, the automotive arm of the World Steel Association, WorldAutoSteel, will help to educate and inform decision-makers about the benefits of using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to measure the environmental impact of automobiles. The LCA approach assesses a product’s […]
Benchmarking Study Reveals Steel Lightweighting Opportunities
BRUSSELS, 28 JUNE 2017 – Findings in an update to an Auto Mass Benchmarking study sponsored by WorldAutoSteel, the automotive group of the World Steel Association, continue to be positive for steel lightweighting. The study, Automotive Mass Benchmarking 2017, provides automakers with a new, more accurate way to benchmark the mass of vehicles. By way […]
Design Advisor: WorldAutoSteel’s New Online Workshop
Available at steeluniversity.org today! Ambitious automotive designers bent on leaving a lasting mark in vehicle design history will want to take full advantage of an enabling approach now being offered by WorldAutoSteel, the automotive group of the World Steel Association. The enabler is an online course of study offered by WorldAutoSteel through steeluniversity.org. The course […]
Steel in cars – lighter than you think!
In contrast to other lightweight materials steel is the less expensive and more ecological solution for automotive manufacturing. From the several hundred automotive steel grades on the market, there is a suitable alloy with the required properties for nearly every component. This video, produced by the German Steel Federation (WV Stahl) tells the story.
[VIDEO] The Future Begins with Steel
The German Federation (Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl im Stahl-Zentrum), in which our German members participate, produced a video (in German) that promotes steel’s effectiveness in multiple industries, called “An insightful day – future begins with steel”. For automotive, they used the actual models, inside and out, of FutureSteelVehicle as an example for steel’s vehicle lightweighting and performance potential. Watch to […]