LANXESS – Feasibility of plastic enclosures for high-voltage batteries in electric vehicles proven.
Technical plastics such as polyamide 6 offer numerous benefits for the design of battery enclosures for electric vehicles – in terms of sustainability, manufacturing costs, weight savings and economical functional integration, for example.
However, there were previously lingering doubts as to whether these large and complex components are also able to meet the very demanding requirements in relation to mechanical strength and flame-retardant properties.
Kautex Textron and LANXESS have now carried out a comprehensive examination of precisely this using a jointly developed technology demonstrator made from polyamide 6. LANXESS was responsible for the material development and Kautex Textron for the engineering, design and the manufacturing process…