Titanium in Automotive Production

Abstract Although titanium has meanwhile made its way into serial production of automotive parts, its use has been widely limited to niche applications and was not driven by weighing the technical and economic aspects. Cost of semi‐finished titanium products is still limiting; indeed, new and cheaper processes for production of Ti itself are urgently needed. However, if one extrapolates the current status of Ti technology based on the historic development of the knowledge bases on other automotive metals (steel, Al, and Mg), the future of titanium use in cars looks quite bright.