The automotive world has been obsessed with carbon fiber for decades, ever since the McLaren MP4/1 Formula One race car became the first to use a carbon fiber composite chassis in 1981. Since then, ...

Carbon fiber improves everything. So why aren't we making all our cars out of it? We went to Lamborghini's factory to find out. Stronger than steel and a fraction of the weight, carbon fiber is a ...

Dublin, Oct. 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Carbon Fiber Market Industry Trends and Global Forecasts to 2035: Distribution by Type of Raw Material, Type of Fiber, Type of Product, Type of Modules / ...

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a low-cost carbon fiber that could lower the cost of blades for wind turbines. The fiber begins as widely available raw material used in the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story. Carbon fiber is a brilliant high-performance material with excellent strength-to-weight properties, but it remains expensive and impractical to ...

BMW has unveiled a new lightweight material that could serve as a greener alternative to carbon fiber, offering reduced CO2 emissions in the process. After testing it in racing environments, natural ...

Several years ago, I T-boned a car at about 20 mph when it turned right into my path while I was riding my bike (pictured above). My titanium bike frame escaped unscathed while the front fork, ...

Now that carbon-fiber composites have migrated from the world of blank-check motorsports to semiaffordable production cars such as the BMW i3 and Chevrolet Corvette, what’s next? Is there another ...

French startup Fairmat closed a $35 million Series A funding round (€34 million) last month. It wants to turn carbon fiber composite that is no longer in use into a new material that can be used in ...