Gorilla glasses that used on cell phones soon can found on your car. Gorilla glasses used on billion of mobile phones. These thin lenses are strong, and car manufacturer wants to use then for getting rid of some weight. BMW is already start using it with their new i8 sports car model; they use the glass in interior areas. Ford will be the first to use for rear window and windshield on their next year arrival Ford GT. Gorilla Glass even used as an engine cover.
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Gorilla Glass windshields are hybrid. All glass has three layers; the outer layer is an annealed glass, plastic in the middle, but inner layer chemically strengthened Gorilla Glass. This compilation makes the glass %32 percent lighter and durable as before. Also, GT’s windshield meets U.S. Safety Standards. One other advantage of the Gorilla Glass is; when engineers of the Ford shot pieces to glass instead of shattered like annealed glass, Gorilla Glass stayed solid and didn’t crack.
The lightweight glass is not the only material that used to save some weight. Toyota is using high-strength plastic for the moonroof on its Prius V Wagon. There is an another advantage of using Gorilla Glass, and that is low costs, with every each car the manufacturer can save $24 to $48, this number can be less but if you are producing thousand of cars a day, it means a lot.
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