Young Dutch engineers are set to save the planet using carbon fiber motor racing technology

Motor racing has spawned or catalyzed countless technological innovations that have made road cars safer and more efficient. Rearview mirrors, disk brakes, alloy wheels… the list is endless. But a promising technology that already appeared in Formula One in the 1970s has not made the transition from racing and sports cars to ordinary road cars yet: the aerodynamic undertray. Corellian, a Dutch start-up, has made it its mission to use this technology to reduce the fuel consumption of ordinary road cars by 15 percent. And they could not do it without carbon fiber composites.402