An electric vehicle using polymer composites was unveiled at Osaka University in Japan. According to the introduction, the new car is lightweight while maintaining its strength, and has extended the long driving distance, while reducing its environmental impact.
It is understood that the electric concept car unveiled this time is called "ItoP" and can carry 3 people. The car is 4.28 meters long and weighs 850 kilograms. The reason for using the polymer material is that it is easy to be damaged after thinning according to the past, and it is brittle when it is thick and hard.
At the conference, a research project led by Professor Ito Kenzo, a professor of polymer materials at the University of Tokyo, and Akira Harada, a special professor of polymer synthetic chemistry at Osaka University, and others used supercomputers "Kyoto" and large-scale radiation facility "SPring-8" to analyze polymerization The molecular structure of the material when it is destroyed has developed a "flexible" material that retains its strength after thinning. According to the simulation results, compared with the conventional materials such as iron and glass, this material can reduce the weight by about 500 kg, and various designs can be easily realized. Large manufacturers have also collaborated on the use of this material in automobiles.