Automotive coating transition timetables have historically been anything but aggressive, especially when considering Corrosion Resistant Coatings (CRC). Balancing technological advances with; validation, cost, safety, and global availability typically paralyze the automotive CRC transition process. Today, thrusts towards End of Life Vehicle Directive (ELVD) compliance provides a platform for technologically advanced coatings to shorten the time required to satisfy the automotive adoption process. Although the said platform may facilitate accelerated adoption, by no way has this manifested itself in reduced validation. On the contrary, automotive CRC validation requirements have increased in both magnitude and scope. Black and clear/silver electrodeposited ELVD compliant coatings will be; required to exhibit more consistent corrosion performance when subjected to increasingly severe and numerous tests, compatible with a wider range of intimate materials/fluids, required to exhibit more accurate and precise friction characteristics, and ensured quality by multiple levels of the supply chain.
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