In an interview with Automotive World magazine, Aluminum Transportation Group Technical Committee Chairman, Doug Richman, offers perspectives on trends in automotive lightweighting, to include the significant role aluminum plays in helping automakers achieve efficiency without compromising performance or safety. According to Richman, as automakers employ a healthy material mix in vehicle designs “aluminum co-exists in a multi-material world,” further asserting “the multi-material approach is the only correct way to lightweight vehicles.”
