Conventional automobiles contain 20 to 50 pounds of copper. Electric vehicles, in contrast, contain about 180 pounds of copper, and 27 million of them are expected on the road by 2027. That’s a lot of electric motors, batteries and sensors to assemble and a lot of copper wiring, traces and terminations to connect.
A new technology, the industrial blue laser, is enabling assemblers to process all that copper quickly and at a high level of quality—not just for electric vehicles, but for a wide variety of consumer and commercial products.