
The Aluminum Transportation Group (ATG) concluded its spring 2019 Aluminum Design Workshop on May 2.
The workshop demonstrated how automotive aluminium designs a safe and strong vehicle and how lightweighting with aluminium is the safest choice. In the case of a crash, aluminium has the ability to fold predictably and absorbs twice as much crash energy as steel offering more safety.
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The workshop also highlighted the environmental benefits of aluminium-intensive vehicles. An aluminum-intensive vehicle can cut down up to 20% energy consumption and 17% CO2 omission during total life cycle. The Land Rover Range Rover lowered its overall carbon footprint with a 420kg weight savings with the use of aluminium.
The aluminum automotive parts demonstrations at the Design Workshop showed how aluminum is the material of choice for a light, strong, safe and sustainable vehicle. Aluminium content in vehicles is on the rise and about 25% of vehicles are likely to have a partial, or in some cases complete aluminum body-in-white by 2028.
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