Tag Archives: Chevrolet

2010 Chevrolet Malibu High-Strength Steel

The 2010 Chevrolet Malibu safety features include high-strength steel safety cage as seen below. Additional features related to the safety cage include: Side-door beams that help reduce penetration into the passenger compartmentduring shallow-angle side collisions Side-impact, cross-car beams are designed ...

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2008 Chevrolet Malibu B-Pillar

If you take a look at the image below you will see that the B-Pillar reinforcement is made from Dual Phase (DP) 980. Just in case you are wondering where DP 980 ranks in the strength of UHSS take a ...

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What is a Body in White (BIW)?

Today I want to focus on a little terminolgy. First off, BIW stands for Body in White . All activities in the production of a Vehicle Body or Shell before it goes to the Paint shop are done in a ...

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2010 Chevrolet Camaro Body Structure UHSS

Even as a Ford guy, I really would hate to see a new 2010 Chevrolet Camaro come under the blades of a cutter! However, we all need to know what to except just in case a 16 year old “borrows” ...

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2008 Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell/HydroGen4

2008 Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell/HydroGen4

2008 Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell/HydroGen4 The entire fuel cell stack/inverter/controller/motor system is packaged to fit into the space within the standard Equinox engine compartment. Just like a standard internal combustion power-train, the fuel cell/electric drive system is assembled to the ...

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