Forum Discussion
- There is a misconception of how tough carbon fiber is...
Yes, stronger than steel...but to get it in reference...weight vs tensile strength is higher than steel
Think most understand fiber glass better and just think of carbon fiber as the exact same as fiber glass...but with a better or higher tensile strength fiber....carbon vs glass(on that...many don't know that the fiber glass...fiber is window glass spun into fine fibers). The resin binders are about the same stuff. Both use the same or similar pre-preg and/or layup system
While on this...am in wonderment of where those folks who say their garden supply only loads pallets of stone...so aluminum bed is fine...well...in my area, all of the garden supply places use a bucket dumper to load stone into pickups. See pickups jumping up and down during those 'dumps' all the time...and...know one driver/owner who lifts the bucket as tall as he can to @ss#oles who give him a bad time on pricing of his materials... :B
Sure, 'some' are palletized, but those are the expensive stuff. Like slate, flat rock, ornamental stone, etc - A lot of boats are also made of carbon fiber. Sails have carbon fiber in them......
"IF" thought out correctly, This could be a good thing. BUT, with that said......not sure it would be that great for those of us that use our trucks in construction when dumping a load of rock, pallets of material etc into the bed. A dented steel bed is better than a cracked and broken alternate material bed.
Marty - Airplanes don't have much left to them for repair after they crash... :E
Carbon Fiber is a wonderful material, but there are good applications and then there are poor applications...
Also...am NOT a fan of bonded seams. Of which most plastic vehicles are going to and metal vehicles a likewise
Welded & bonded seams are okay with me though
Bottom line is that the vast majority of pickup and SUV buyers are NOT buying them as work trucks. More fashion statement crowd.
Here has more who actually use them for work or HD usage
This all has me noodling if I'll ever buy used bonded seam vehicles. Time will tell... Me Again wrote:
Let see, airplanes are moving from Aluminum to carbon fiber and vehicles are moving to aluminum. Why not just skip straight to carbon fiber?
Airplanes have a different cost structure and usually don't need a body shop.- Let see, airplanes are moving from Aluminum to carbon fiber and vehicles are moving to aluminum. Why not just skip straight to carbon fiber?
- I am all for new tech if it is affordable and repairable. I have my doubts on this application though but will wait and see.
- That should be cost effective, not.
- as long as they keep the cheap plastic wheel well molding. nothing like buying a $65k truck with plastic molding.
hey GM does this ring a bell?
jfkmk wrote:
Well, they certainly couldn't go to aluminum, could they?
If they do, bet they make the inside of the box out of steel.- Probably going aluminum would have to backpeddle a bit. Interesting saying using on upscale trucks not work trucks according to article.
