Fisker Automotive has finally taken the digital wraps off the advanced aluminum space frame around which the Karma plug-in hybrid (PHEV) will be built. In lieu of enjoying a new concept vehicle at the ...

It is sometimes a surprise in our community of tinkerers, builders, hackers, and makers, to find that there are other communities doing very similar things to us within their own confines, but in ...

Following in the footsteps of parent company BMW, Rolls-Royce announced the development of a future vehicle platform composed of a lightweight aluminum space-frame. Like the new BMW 7-Series, which ...

The highlights at Teufelberger’s booth (S16, Hall 7.2) for this year’s JEC are two large metal-composite hybrid space frame structures of 3 metres in length. The T-IGEL® connector forms the basis for ...

Who among us hasn’t at some point thought of building a little vehicle, and better still, a little off-road vehicle for a few high-octane rough-terrain adventures. [Made in Poland] has, and there he ...

Audi, after years of research with Alcoa, presents the Audi Space Frame concept made primarily of aluminum at the Frankfurt auto show on Sept. 9, 1993. Audi chief Ferdinand Piëch in 1982 formed an ...

This paper describes the development of joint design approach for aluminum space frame. The space frame consists of thin-walled closed extrusions joined by welding. A welded joint cannot be treated by ...