WorldAutoSteel Program : Future Steel Vehicle (Fourth Report)

- Joining and Assembly Technologies for Future Steel Vehicle Structures -

Abstract

WorldAutoSteel(WAS) launched its FutureSteelVehicle (FSV) program with the aim to show auto-OEMs how latest and future steel grades & technologies can provide light body structures for Electrical Vehicles(EV). The objective was to develop detailed design concepts and fully optimize a radically different steel body structure for a compact battery electric vehicle in production in the 2015-2020 time frame. This paper discloses the final outcomes of FSV and its joining and assembly technologies, while meeting 2015-2020 crash performance objectives as well as stiffness, NVH and total life cycle greenhouse gas emissions targets . This is achieved using advanced & ultra high strength steels and engineering design optimization .