4 Emerging Trends on Car Mobility

Electric vehicles, both self-driving and without autonomy, are poised to take over the future of the automobile industry. With this, expectations of consumers have risen through the roof; present-day techniques won’t cut it. Today’s car engineers and designers face problems far more complex and interdisciplinary than ever before. Car manufacturers are fervently finding ways to deal with emerging challenges. Here are the four emerging trends in car manufacturing that directly relates to car mobility.

Lightweight Materials 
One of the fundamental challenges plaguing the car industry today is longer drive ranges relative to the battery, and one way to achieve that is to lessen the weight of the car. Vehicle weight reduction is slowly getting apparent in the car industry. There is a steadily rising demand for lightweight polymer materials. Electric vehicle designers would impact the future of material specifications and design. 

Battery Materials
The need for increased range and more mileage is the hardest challenge for autonomous vehicle makers. Modern innovations, such as gaskets, electrolytes, and lithium-ion binder materials are great strides in making the battery last longer. Specialists in the field, however, are still coming up with additional ways to increase battery performance.

Design 
Significant changes to the interior and exterior design are also expected in the near-term. Longer-use battery means longer mileage, and a long time out under the elements. They require anti-corrosive while easy to clean materials. External design will focus more on the utility than the aesthetic.

Another external design change will be the incorporation of seen and be seen properties in external cars. Seen properties imply that the car’s sensors can still function optimally in the face of bad weather. Be Seen features allow the vehicle to be detectable by the sensors of other electric vehicles, even under severe weather states. 

Car interiors are also changing. Interior trims must be renewed regularly, and as such, require materials and parts that are easily replaceable. Various types of surfaces for electronic screens is on the rise, as with coatings that reduce dirt and fingerprints. 

Improving the Experience
Driving nowadays is shifting away from safety and comfort to in-transit connectivity and entertainment. Haptic screen coatings with coefficients of friction, flexible surfaces, OLEDs, and the like are at the forefront of driving experience.  

Irrespective of the time, forecast, or population, electric vehicles are bound to be in the future. Cars are a sizeable investment, and to protect yourselves from the uncertainty of this industry, invest in getting car insurance from an agency of repute. 

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