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Europe Tries To Ban Carbon Fiber In Cars

Started by FLB , Apr 16 2025 12:28

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#1 FLB

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Posted 16 April 2025 - 12:28

Uh... What???

https://www.thetruth...-fiber-44513281

Apparently, there are EU regulators who wan to add carbon fiber to a hazardous materials list... :yawnface: :cat: :drunk:

https://environment....ife-vehicles_en

Edited by FLB, 16 April 2025 - 12:28.

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#2 Sterzo

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Posted 16 April 2025 - 13:29

Arch Motors still exist in Huntingdon, England (drove past them two days ago). They could knock us up some space frames or monocoques.

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#3 cbo

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Posted 16 April 2025 - 17:05

Uh... What???

https://www.thetruth...-fiber-44513281

Apparently, there are EU regulators who wan to add carbon fiber to a hazardous materials list...

https://environment....ife-vehicles_en

I can't really see any proposed ban on carbon fiber mentioned in the proposal for amending the directive...?

Edited by cbo, 17 April 2025 - 10:58.

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#4 cbo

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Posted 17 April 2025 - 11:01

Apparently, carbon fiber will not be banned..

https://www.motor1.c...nned-in-europe/

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#5 BRG

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Posted 17 April 2025 - 16:00

Just as well, if they weren't going to destroy Airbus, which are heavily composite these days.

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#6 gruntguru

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Posted 17 April 2025 - 22:59

Yeah - but they make aeroplanes.

Trump is busily handing Boeing sales to Airbus so I think they will be OK for a while.

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#7 BRG

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Posted Yesterday, 08:45

If the Euro-idiots in Brussels ban carbon fibre, they will hand the sales straight back to Boeing. Or to China.

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#8 cbo

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Posted Yesterday, 12:45

If the Euro-idiots in Brussels ban carbon fibre, they will hand the sales straight back to Boeing. Or to China.

The talk was about banning carbon fiber in cars because of concerns for health and safety when the spent cars are to be recycled.

Nothing to do with planes.

Edited by cbo, Yesterday, 12:46.

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#9 BRG

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Posted Yesterday, 14:44

The talk was about banning carbon fiber in cars because of concerns for health and safety when the spent cars are to be recycled.

Nothing to do with planes.

And what do you imagine happens to old planes when the reach the end of their operational life? They don't shrivel up and disappear.

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#10 Bob Riebe

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Posted Yesterday, 17:58

The talk was about banning carbon fiber in cars because of concerns for health and safety when the spent cars are to be recycled.

Nothing to do with planes.

Carbon fiber can be recycled , but it is not cheap.

In the U.S. they cannot just put it in a crusher, but then in the future one can envision junk yards full of old car shells that do not rust away. :smoking: