Continental Structural Plastics (CSP) has been designing and manufacturing composite battery covers since 2012. Recently, the company has expanded its portfolio to include full battery enclosures. Photo Credit, all images: CSP
As automotive OEMs focus on transitioning to a market of all-electric vehicles in the near future (by 2035, for General Motors), electric vehicle (EV) components will need to be produced at higher volumes. In the composites world, the relatively lighter weight, higher strength and thermal resistance properties of many composite materials make them an increasingly attractive alternative to metal for EV battery covers in particular, and
CW continues to learn about new efforts to design more efficient, lighter-weight composite battery covers (see recent examples from an Evonik-led consortium and TRB Lightweight Structures).