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The growth of lightweight plastic applications as a manufacturing sector is what primarily drives the size of the electric vehicle plastics market. Lightweight polymers are used in electric cars, which increases their fuel efficiency and extends their driving range.
It is anticipated that the electric vehicle plastics market would be dominated by battery electric vehicles, which will fuel the market’s expansion. Due to its superior presentation to metal, the electric vehicle plastics sector is also expected to enjoy rising demand.
Although metal is the material of choice for making many automobile components, the added weight that results has forced automakers to search for alternatives to better overall vehicle efficiency.
The Latin America EV Plastics Market accounted for $XX Billion in 2021 and is anticipated to reach $XX Billion by 2026, registering a CAGR of XX% from 2022 to 2027.
In an effort to determine if technical thermoplastics may be used in the design and production of battery housings for electric vehicles, the specialty chemicals firm LANXESS and Kautex Textron, a subsidiary of Textron Inc., have been working together for some time.
In a feasibility study, they collaborated to construct a near-series technology demonstrator. The system is a huge, technically complex, all-plastic housing portion with dimensions of around 1,400 mm in length and breadth and a weight of about twenty kilograms.
The battery housing of a C-segment electric car served as the foundation for the demonstrator’s development. It comprises an underrun (underbody) protection, a housing cover, and a housing tray with a crash structure.
A single-stage Direct Long Fibre Thermoplastic (D-LFT) moulding procedure can be used to create the housing components. Durethan B24CMH2.0, the material for the D-LFT molding compound, has been optimized by LANXESS.
Glass fiber rovings are used by Kautex Textron to compound the PA6 for the procedure. Continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites of the Tepex Dynalite brand from LANXESS are used for the local reinforcement of the house construction.