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Industrial application

Passenger car body and closures

Also known as car body panels

The body structure and closure parts of light-duty vehicles — doors, roofs, hoods, rear hatches and brackets — where glass and carbon fibre composites are used to save weight.

Classification

application category
ROAD_VEHICLE

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EstablishedGlass fibre closures and semi-structural parts; carbon fibre mostly low-volume (as of 2015).

In light-duty vehicles glass fibre composites are used for closures and semi-structural parts such as rear hatches, roofs, doors and brackets, where part consolidation, corrosion resistance and vibration damping help; carbon fibre composites had, as of 2015, seen limited use, mainly in semi-structural parts such as hoods and roofs in low-volume production, and wider structural use was held back by needs for crash failure-mode data, cost parity, design tools and dependable joining at production speed.

  • temporal basis: As recorded in the 2015 U.S. Department of Energy technology assessment.

Evidence support: Supported by the cited evidence one source

Evidence: U.S. Department of Energy 2015 Primary authority

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Record last updated 2026-10-30. Corrections follow the published corrections policy; superseded claims are retained, never silently edited.