Promoted by the Centro de Investigaciones Metalúrgicas AZTERLAN, the 2nd Carl Loper Cast Iron Symposium was held in Bilbao on 30 September and 1 October 2019. We offer a review of the presentation that the specialists of the RENAULT Group, M. Albertalli and L. Vaissière, made with this title, on the repercussion that the technological evolution of the automobile can represent for the foundry industry.