Offset Added Weight, while Ensuring Protection of Battery Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicles are on pace to outsell gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2040, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. As market supply and demand grows, automakers are working to reduce the average 300+ kilograms of weight added by the battery through integrating more lightweight material, downgauging current metals and re-designing component architecture.
Henkel's advanced epoxy toughening technology enables high crash-resistant structural adhesives to absorb high impact energy across a variety of metals and metal thicknesses at varying temperatures, demonstrated through lap shear, t-peel and impact wedge peel tests. The result is the ability of the adhesive to enable weight reduction, while fulfilling or exceeding crash safety requirements.
Additionally, these next generation structural adhesives provide increased manufacturing flexibility and efficiency through offering advanced uncured properties, such as wash-off resistance, humidity resistance and flammability resistance.
Learn more about Henkel's high crash-resistant structural adhesives in our latest white paper.