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Electric Vehicle Joining Webinar Recording Released

Tue, 07 March, 2023

On 8 February, TWI held a webinar dedicated to ‘Innovations in Joining Technology for Electric Vehicle Manufacture.’

The popular online event, which saw 231 registrants from 41 different countries, included a presentation from our automotive programme manager, Sullivan Smith.

Sullivan’s wide-reaching talk investigated technologies for aluminium car body production with a specific focus on:

- Laser welding quality monitoring development

- Resistance spot welding of aluminium for high volume applications

- The use of friction stir welding to produce hot formed and quenched tailor welded blanks

- Coreflow®, generation of integrated cooling channels into structural aluminium components

- Dissimilar joining of aluminium to steel and carbon fibre composites

In case you missed this webinar, or if you would like to see it again, a recording of the event is now available to view, below:

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