When it comes to making cars more energy-efficient – whether they're battery- or gas-powered – getting their weight down is one of the best things you can do. Unfortunately, the cast iron brake rotors ...

Currently, brakes made from composite materials tend to be expensive, and as such mainly just find their way onto high-performance cars and motorcycles. That could be about to change, however.

The focus on the new stopping distance standards might suggest that regulations are what drive research and development in the brake drum and rotor industry, but that is only a part of the story.

Originally broadcast live, here is The Cool Parts Show’s conversation with Ceramic Disc Technology about the company’s development of a brake rotor for the Dodge Challenger Hellcat. Lattice geometry ...

When Kettle Cycles’ launched their Kickstarter project with the goal of creating a carbon-ceramic composite disc brake rotor, cyclocross tech geeks had a field day. After all, with the launch of disc ...

Researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) and Michigan-based REL, Inc., are creating a next-generation aluminum composite brake rotor potentially weighing 60 percent ...

Racers are always trying to cut weight, even if they have to add it back in lead just to make the minimum weight. That's because placing the weight where you want it (low and to the left) can help the ...

The brake rotors are an important part of the disc brake system found in most modern cars. Many vehicles have disc brakes on the front and drum brakes in the rear, while others have four-wheel disc ...

Automotive brakes have advanced leaps and bounds over the past century, but the physics behind how they work remains the same: brakes slow a car down by converting a tire's rotational energy into ...

We earn commissions from purchases you make using links in our articles. Learn more. It’s hard to think of a more important automotive component than brakes. The ability to stop your car quickly, ...