As cars become increasingly connected, automated, shared and electrified, it could be strongly argued that the automotive industry will change more in the next decade or so than it has in the preceding century.

While the widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles may still be a few years off, the electrification of automotive powertrains is well underway. 

Strong, stiff, relatively inexpensive and easy-to-join, steel has been a mainstay of vehicle manufacture since the concepts of mass-production were pioneered by Henry Ford, but will steel maintain its dominance as carmakers embrace the future, and how will the use of the metal change?