It is quite interesting what you’ll find on forums hosted by Tesla Motors. Innovation is the DNA of the company which compels it to place value on experimentation and improvement. In a similar forum where the discussions took a turn on cutting down the weight of a car and thus reduce the expenditure of energy from the batteries, the use of aluminium was heavily stressed upon. Its weight is much lesser than steel and can carry a lot more stress. Initially, aluminium was mostly used in making the high end cars like the Audi A8. BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Land Rover, Jaguar all followed suit after learning the versatility of the metal. But of late, its applications have found way into mass market models like the Ford F150 truck. Audi can afford to include the best of all the worlds in a single car and mark its price up at high premium. But Ford’s insight and courage to make a near 100% aluminium F150 model, a mass market model which has persistently been the highest selling v...
There's much more to the mere word 'Aluminium'. It has been called The Metal of The Future, a metal which finds its place in every aspect of the world we are building today. Take a peek into the of Aluminium, every day, enriching a billion lives.