Carbon fiber wheels are all the rage in performance cars ... a rotating object will spin more quickly when its center of mass is closer to the axis around which it's rotating.

Like the Michelin/Citroën wheels before them, the Fiberrides were a composite glass fiber construction. Fast-forward to 2013, when boutique hypercar maker Koenigsegg began offering carbon-fiber ...

The carbon-fiber material is cut to shape ... an embedded RFID chip is installed to track each wheel. The wheels are weighed and spin tested to verify the required strength-to-weight ratio.

Carbon fiber, however, is light ... This, as you might imagine, is better for ride quality. But wheels also spin, generating rotational mass. A spinning mass, as Carbon Revolution's Brett ...

Their major benefit over the Pista wheels—especially for a mainstream automaker like Ford—is automation. Robots that can spin the carbon preform and higher-pressure resin injection molds have ...

Vehicle efficiency is improved as less energy is required to get the wheel spinning. While metal wheels can act like a bell, the dense, inert nature of carbon fiber provides for overall improved ...

spoked carbon-rimmed wheel. That in turn, along with the high spoke tension, is said to allow the wheels to spin up faster when accelerating. Syncros says that it has focussed on optimising wheel ...

Usually, these types of wheels aren't made solely from carbon fiber. It's common for carbon ... We can't wait to take it for a spin. Having experience in many forms of the automotive industry ...

The Victorian maker of carbon fibre wheels, which are 40 per cent lighter than normal wheels, has signed a formal memorandum of understanding with Mitsui, covering a range of areas as the firm ...

A few lucky souls may even have a matching set, but whichever way you spin it ... riders a carbon rim which, unlike most others on the market, is totally recyclable. Carbon fibre components ...