The 15th edition of Africa Eco Race (AER) ended on January 14th in Dakar, and was the inaugural race of APH-01 vehicles, the new-generation hybrid and sustainable side-by-side vehicles (SSV) developed by Apache Automotive (Belgium), subsidiary of GCK Performance (Auvergne, France). Due to strong weight limitations and its environmental-friendly approach, APACHE Automotive was aiming for bio-based composite-based bodyworks, and thus chose to collaborate with VESO Concept (Occitanie, France). Once the design of the bodywork parts validated, APACHE Automotive put a total trust in VESO Concept for the part prototyping and production : reinforcements, polymers and processes have been defined by the VESO Concept team using an eco-conception approach, to finally deliver a first prototype and two bodyworks in one year. Read more: jeccomposites.com/...