Modular mixed material design, leveraging new GFRP SMC compound, delivers scalable cost effective lightweight HVBE solutions. Comprehensive design, simulation and physical testing program provides visibility to series production capable solution for next generation BEVs. Collaboration provides critical resources to meet demands of rapidly evolving automotive industry. Forward Engineering GmbH (FE), a global engineering and consulting firm specializing in enabling cost effective inclusion of fiber reinforced polymer composites in serial mass-produced automotive structures, as a part of a consortium of companies, has led the design of a cost and mass efficient high voltage battery enclosure for the next generation of battery electric vehicles. As the automotive industry races to electrify their…