Over the last 100 years, it has been a full circle for the automotive industry. Electric vehicles which generally dominated the roads till 1920s slowly lost the ground to the gasoline vehicles due to the large-scale discovery of petroleum across the globe. Electric vehicles are now back again, and this time it is going to stay. In this paper, after discussing the roles of the component shape and the functionality integration to the component to reduce the number of parts, and therefore the weight, the importance of novel manufacturing technologies in achieving the desired shape and part reduction is discussed. Further, the global optima in terms of weight and cost reduction while meeting the performance targets can be achieved with the use of novel forming technology. Finally, the novel forming technologies developed at Tata Steel such as the micro-pillar forming, manufacturing of variable thickness tube, electropulse-assisted forming and modified hot stamping technologies have been discussed in detail.

在过去的100年中，它已经成为汽车行业的一个完整的圈子。直到1920年代，电动汽车通常在道路上占主导地位，这是由于在全球范围内大量发现石油而逐渐失去了汽油汽车的地位。电动汽车现在又回来了，这次将保持下去。在本文中，在讨论了零件形状和功能集成到零件以减少零件数量并因此减轻重量的作用之后，讨论了新型制造技术在实现所需形状和零件减小方面的重要性。此外，通过使用新颖的成型技术，可以在达到性能目标的同时实现重量和成本降低方面的全球最佳选择。最后，