{"id":9345,"date":"2024-07-26T19:07:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T19:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steelorg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=9345"},"modified":"2024-09-05T19:09:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T19:09:52","slug":"aisis-great-designs-in-steel-mentioned-in-automotive-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steel.org\/2024\/07\/aisis-great-designs-in-steel-mentioned-in-automotive-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"AISI&#8217;s Great Designs in Steel Mentioned in Automotive Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chevrolet Blazer EV customers are likely to cite the Ultium battery and dual-motor driveline as their vehicle\u2019s most advanced technologies. But in doing so, they\u2019d miss an equally key aspect of GM\u2019s sporty midsize electric SUV: its steel-intensive body structure featuring a broad mix of alloys and an impact-defying battery enclosure.<\/p>\n<p>The words \u2018steel\u2019 and \u2018BEV\u2019 seem incongruent, given the widely forecasted trend toward aluminum architectures based on two or three large castings. GM itself has invested heavily in the Tesla-pioneered \u2018gigacasting\u2019 tech and will deploy it first in Cadillac\u2019s new, ultra-exclusive (and much-delayed)\u00a0Celestiq flagship.\u00a0But GM\u2019s electrification strategy depends on a variety of material and body-structure solutions. It\u2019s a horses-for-courses approach aimed at balancing performance and product affordability, explained Blazer EV\u2019s chief engineer Hoda Eiliat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn GM\u2019s materials position, steel is obviously the most cost-effective approach,\u201d Eiliat declared in her keynote at the 2024 Great Designs in Steel conference. Innovations in new alloys, metal forming and joining technologies continue to drive steel\u2019s competitiveness, she told SAE Media following her presentation, adding that \u201cobviously we have to look elsewhere when we have mass and parts-consolidation priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article by Lindsay Brooke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sae.org\/news\/2024\/07\/chevy-blazer-ev-steel\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chevrolet Blazer EV customers are likely to cite the Ultium battery and dual-motor driveline as their vehicle\u2019s most advanced technologies. But in doing so, they\u2019d miss an equally key aspect of GM\u2019s sporty midsize electric SUV: its steel-intensive body structure featuring a broad mix of alloys and an impact-defying battery enclosure. The words \u2018steel\u2019 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":["default"],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[41,67,66],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-9345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto","category-markets","category-media"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AISI&#039;s Great Designs in Steel Mentioned in Automotive Engineering - American Iron and Steel Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"AISI serves as the voice of the American steel industry in the public policy arena and advances the case for steel in the marketplace as the preferred material of choice.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.steel.org\/2024\/07\/aisis-great-designs-in-steel-mentioned-in-automotive-engineering\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AISI&#039;s Great Designs in Steel Mentioned in Automotive Engineering - 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