The Litebus project is aimed at creating a lightweight indigenous bus made out of aluminium. A lightweight bus made of Aluminium has many advantages, as outlined below: “The advantages of using aluminium in the bus industry are manifold. Aluminium can be extruded into complex shapes, allowing for intricate design and integrally strong structures. Modern buses with aluminium bodies are several hundred kilograms lighter than those built using conventional methods of construction. This increases the number of people that can be transported for a given maximum permitted weight and reduces running costs…” (world-aluminium.org, 2013) The body is to be made of an aluminium Spaceframe attached to sub-frames made of steel at the front and rear which carry powertrain and other subassemblies like powertrain, etc. The aluminium Spaceframe needs to be as light as possible for there to be a meaningful overall weight reduction. One way to do this is this is to have the frame to be stronger so that it needs less material.