New Steel Challenges Aluminum For Car Panel Composition

[John]

How about a new steel developed my Nippon Steel which is 30% lighter, challenges the automotive industry’s move to aluminum for car bodies/panels?

Or if it is improved even more to being 50%, which is currently being worked on and preliminary shows potential, might make the more expensive aluminum body panel transition actually become reversed?

The Reinvention of Steel Could Make Car Bodies 30% Lighter

By Masumi Suga, May 30, 2019

Nippon Steel last April opened a research department to come up with tricks for making car parts lighter, using super-advanced grades of the material it’s been smelting for 118 years. In January, the firm unveiled the results of the new approach: an all-steel car body, built in-house, which it says cuts weight by 30 percent, putting it on par with aluminum.

Thanks to Bloomberg for this article; for more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...tweight-ev-era

[Plasboy]

That’s neat but wonder how it will affect the U.S. steel industry.