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AM supplies new Audi, invests in Eisenhüttenstadt
The next version of Audi’s flagship model A8 will be 40% steel, which confirms the trend to use high-tensile steels in cars and a return from an all-aluminium carbody, as Audi introduced for the A8 in 1994.
According to ArcelorMittal, the tensile strength of steel in the course of the past ten years has improved nearly ten-fold to now 2,000 MPa. 17% of the new A8, to be launched next year, will consist of press-hardened steels with 1,500 MPa, o…
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