Strategies and technological challenges for realizing lightweight mass production automobile by using thermoplastic CFRP

Jun Takahashi [Professor, The University of Tokyo]

Summary (duration: 22 min.)

• Japanese national project started in 2008
• Solving cost, molding and recycling issues
• The use of hermoplastic CFRP
• Repairing and recycling of CFRTP for automotive application
• Life cycle analysis of recycled CFRP