Carbon fiber is an extremely environmentally unfriendly product, it’s production alone takes on average 20 times more energy than steel, it cannot be recycled (

Carbon fiber is an extremely environmentally unfriendly product, it’s production alone takes on average 20 times more energy than steel, it cannot be recycled (or effectively repaired for that matter) and it and it’s bonding materials are toxic. Carbon fiber is one of the first things we need to replace in car manufacturing if we want to scale hybrid and EVs manufacturing by orders of magnitude.