Professional styrene producer INEOS Styrolution announced that BMW M has selected the beautiful StyLight composite material as an alternative material for a new generation of carbon fiber gear levers optimized for ergonomics.
The material selected for shift lever applications is Ineos Styrolution’s carbon fiber composite material StyLight Aesthetic S C245-1-060, which adopts PC/SAN GF30 back molding, mainly to meet automotive interior and exterior applications, as well as electronics and sports and leisure industries. Developed on demand. In addition to beautiful appearance, StyLight also has excellent chemical resistance, which can meet all the high standards of BMW M.
One of the biggest benefits of this solution is low cost. For example, compared to PC-based composites, StyLight can be applied without coating and no additional compression molding steps are required, because the back molding step can directly create high quality The appearance surface.
The shift lever allows drivers who drive cars with automatic transmissions to manually shift gears. Although the automatic transmission is very advanced, some drivers still prefer to manually shift gears in order to predict the turn of the road, thereby choosing more sensitive gears or using the engine speed to slow down the car, especially in bad weather or landslides.