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The weight of the drive shaft will play a certain role in the general weight reduction of the vehicle and is a highly desirable goal. The advanced composite materials are widely used because of their high specific strength and high specific modulus. Advanced composite materials seem ideally suited for long, power driver shaft applications. The automotive industries are developing the composite material technology for structural components so that components weight is reduced without losing the component quality and reliability. It is known the energy is directly proportion to the fuel consumption and fuel consumption is directly proportion to the weight so the composite will posses less weight than metals. In this project different analysis is done on the drive-shaft with different percentage of compositions of a reinforcement in the composite material and concludes that using composite material will induce less stresses and reduces the weight of the drive-shaft. CATIA is used as modeling package for model the drive shaft arrangement and ANSYS is used as analysis package for analyse the drive-shaft.