Frame Of A Car

Frame Of A Car

The rise of the automobile can be linked directly to a single raw material - steel. While the very first automobiles were modelled on horse carriages and made of wood, it was the wide availability of steel at the beginning of the 20th century that paved the way for mass-produced, affordable automobiles.

Even today, steel remains the material of choice for constructing the weight-bearing frames of motor vehicles. Although lighter and therefore more fuel-efficient alternatives exist, the car industry at large has been holding on to steel, mostly because of the high cost of production processes and raw mate-rials for the lighter alternatives.

It was not until 1994 that the first-ever mass-produced car frame system made entirely of aluminium hit the market. The car was the A8 by Audi, which had patented the technology a year before. Since then, other manufacturers have followed suit, but it was a steep climb from the days of wooden cars to a mass-produced alternative to steel as the main material for car frames.

Frame Of A Car