Rolls-Royce is going to be the carbon fiber?

Posted on 26-09-2013 at 8:03 by sir_smokalot – 22 Comments”

A modern Rolls-Royce is not exactly a featherweight, while the trend nowadays is that the large, heavy cars a lot on dieët. Helps a koolstofvezelkuur the future models of weight loss?

Carbon, or better said, CFRP, is the latest years the magic word in the automotive industry. When it comes to costs, from can like to work, since it is light and very stiff. The downside is that after a crash, hard to repararen.

The BMW Group, which Rolls-Royce is a part, has a great role for CFRP reserved i-line, and also has an interest in one of the producers of the stuff, SGL Carbon. Then why the applications do not have the rest of the group up?

Rolls-Royce seems to be a suitable candidate, so late an engineer of the British know to Edmunds, but not in the first instance because of the earlier suggestions of weight savings. You should have with a future application think of an application in the carriage of even more exclusive limited-editions on the basis of the current range. It makes the customers typically are not so very much matter whether their Phantom well 400 or 380 grams of CO2 emissions, and those few extra pounds they will also be a concern.

Think for CFRP applications to panels which are currently made of aluminium or steel to be made, and that is easier from a carbon mold to form. With such models, Rolls-Royce in the old days, where practically every car coachbuilt was a bit of a revive, but with a concern that this is in hand. And that makes the exclusive image, of course, not evil. In any case, less so than if you have a SUV builds.

Photo: Phantom of symbolic motors, with a fake carbonwrap.