{"id":4099,"date":"2012-03-26T12:02:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T12:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/ecoguide\/142-million-invested-developing-lightweight-material-advanced-vehicles\/"},"modified":"2012-03-26T12:02:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T12:02:21","slug":"142-million-invested-developing-lightweight-material-advanced-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/ecoguide\/142-million-invested-developing-lightweight-material-advanced-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"$14.2 million to be invested in developing lightweight material for advanced vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To accelerate the development of stronger and lighter materials for making advanced vehicles the Obama administration has sanctioned $14.2 million. This effort will reduce America\u2019s dependence on foreign fuel, save general public\u2019s money and also reduce carbon emissions. The main work entails developing high strength and <a href=\"https:\/\/ecofriend.com\/entry\/lightweight-car-bodies-fuel-efficient-vehicles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lightweight carbon fiber <\/a>composites and also steel and other alloys that mainly reduce the vehicles weight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ecofriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/142_million_in_new_funding_to_develop_lightweight_materials_for_advanced_vehicles_g8iou.jpg\" alt=\"$14.2 Million in New Funding to Develop Lightweight Materials for Advanced Vehicles\" title=\"$14.2 Million in New Funding to Develop Lightweight Materials for Advanced Vehicles\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Investment in this next gen development in also critical for American as it will keep the automobile industry at the cutting edge of global competition. Iron and traditional steel will be replaced with high strength magnesium, aluminum, etc. <\/p>\n<p>The research by the Energy Department would be focused on three main areas. The first is predictive modeling of carbon fiber composites. These will reduce the component weight of the vehicle by 50 percent in comparison to steel. It will be replace steel for making the chassis, body and even for interior. <\/p>\n<p>Next comes research in the field of advanced alloy development for automotive and heavy duty engines. The main aim is develop high strength and low cost alloy for heavy duty engines. This followed by the last thing is predictive modeling of <a href=\"https:\/\/ecofriend.com\/posco-developed-steel-reduce-weight-evs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advanced steel<\/a>. The high strength steel developed under this section will reduce a vehicle\u2019s component weight by 25 percent. <\/p>\n<p>The project will thus help in making good use of <a href=\"https:\/\/ecofriend.com\/entry\/5-futuristic-ideas-renewable-energy-generation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">renewable energy<\/a> technologies and strengthen the energy security and environment quality of America, dealing aptly with future transportation challenges. <\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/energy.gov\/articles\/obama-administration-announces-142-million-new-funding-develop-lightweight-materials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Energygov<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To accelerate the development of stronger and lighter materials for making<br \/>\nadvanced vehicles the Obama administration has sanctioned $14.2 million. This effort<br \/>\nwill reduce America\u2019s dependence on foreign fuel, save general public\u2019s money<br \/>\nand also redu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/ecoguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/ecoguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/ecoguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/ecoguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/ecoguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/ecoguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/ecoguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/ecoguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/ecoguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/ecoguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}