Rolls Royce recently announced it has started testing its new aluminum space-frame architecture, which the brand states, “will underpin all future Rolls-Royce model lines” and arrive in market in early 2018.
In an article featured in the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Motorized Vehicle Manufacturing Yearbook, ATG Technical Committee Chairman, Doug Richman, details advances in automotive material joining technologies. Education and proper training are emphasized as critical to the success of an industry-wide transition to multi-material vehicle designs, to include increased use of aluminum alloys in high-volume vehicles.
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