CASTING AROUND FOR lightweight solutions

The United Kingdom's Grainger & Worrall is introducing and perfecting “new and imaginative” casting-technologies.

“Get more [efficiency] from less [weight, time, cost],” is a mantra that will be chanted sotto voce by many an automotive designer and engineer facing the latest list of a new vehicle's “requirements.”

Many propulsion solutions are possible, some of them evolutionary, that bring new opportunities for application within a rapidly-changing industry. But not all are focused on the design of pure EVs. Experts forecast that the internal combustion engine (ICE) will remain a mainstay of production vehicles-the majority used in hybrid configurations-for many years to come.