New lightweight materials

for the next generation of cars

ALLIANCE (Affordable Lightweight Automobiles Alliance) was a research and innovation project on automotive lightweighting, co-funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme and supported by EUCAR, the European Council for Automotive R&D. It ran from 2016 to 2020.

The submission phase of the ALLIANCE Lightweight Open Innovation Challenge has ended and we have our final four

Applicants have been competing for the opportunity to co-develop their innovations with six leading automotive OEMs: Daimler, Opel, Toyota, Volvo, Volkswagen, CRF- the Research Centre of FCA.

The four winning technologies will be applied to existing vehicle parts and presented at the Alliance Future Lighweighting Day in Aachen on September 20th.

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