Carbon fiber often occupies the limelight as a light weight material that could take some of the heft out of our cars, and thus improve fuel efficiency -- if only it cost less. But alloys of magnesium, the lightest structural metal, have a history in automotive components tracing back to the 1930s. Now the U.S. government is hoping to jump-start innovative production of the material for use in cars.
The Department of Energy opened up a $184 million program this month for advanced vehicle research and development. Among the eight areas where the agency is accepting proposals for improving fuel efficiency in passenger cars is "light weighting materials." As much as $6 million has been designated under this category for projects working toward low-cost, highly efficient production techniques for magnesium components, and another $3 million is available for a demonstration project to develop and construct a front end vehicle sub-structure that's magnesium intensive. The program has a particular interest in techniques using raw materials that are readily available in the U.S.
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