KW Special Projects (KWSP) has been designated by the Swedish electric vehicle manufacturer Uniti as the official engineering design partner of its new electric model Uniti One. After signing the agreement, KWSP's carbon fiber composite automotive platform will be used in vehicle manufacturing in the future to achieve lightweighting, thermal management, and gain structural advantages.
The carbon fiber composite car chassis platform is named ToPCat, which can significantly reduce costs compared to traditional methods. This platform can provide an alternative to carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) thermosets for traditional racing cars.
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However, carbon fiber reinforced plastics are expensive to manufacture, highly labor-intensive, and it is not easy to recycle materials. However, ToPCat can fully realize the recycling of materials, which can shorten the engineering design cycle by 83%. In independent testing, after using ToPCat as an alternative to other methods, cost savings were achieved in terms of tooling costs and unit costs.
ToPCat can use repeatable manufacturing processes to create a modular structure, and use thermoplastic materials and innovative manufacturing processes to reduce the weight of the vehicle and increase the degree of modularity in manufacturing. This is mainly driven by the promotion of new energy vehicle applications.