Calculate Embedded Emissions for Unwrought Aluminium (HS7601)

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Payable emissions (tCO₂e/t)

Total CBAM Cost (€)

Notes:
There may be a difference when calculating the price with respect to import volume, carbon price, and benchmark emissions, as the embedded formula may result in minor variations due to decimal rounding. Therefore, the actual value may vary.

CBAM is applicable to trade volumes starting from 50 metric tonnes. For trade volumes below 50 metric tonnes, CBAM does not apply.

Usage Procedure – How to use the CBAM Calculator Sheet

Enter or update values only in the INPUT
PARAMETERS section (Highlighted in blue) , including
the carbon price, benchmark emissions, CBAM
chargeable percentage (as per the phase-in year),
and imported quantity.

The system will automatically calculate the payable
emissions and the total CBAM cost (€) based on the
inputs provided.

Notes:
• Change any input value to automatically update CBAM cost.
• Formula used: Carbon price × payable emissions × quantity.
• Model aligned with CBAM supplier-side illustrative methodology.

04 NOVEMBER 2023 AL CIRCLE

Innovative Weld Solutions' new welding technology enables significant light-weighting of the electric vehicle

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Aluminium cables for high-current applications in electric vehicles can not only lower cost and weight but also improve the durability of the overall cable system and electric vehicle harness. So why haven't they been widely adopted? This article discusses the need for aluminium cables, what the industry has done so far, and how a new key welding technology from Innovative Weld Solutions LLC (IWSL) can enable the widespread use of aluminium cables for high-current applications in electric vehicles and their charging stations.

Stranded-wire aluminium cables would be much less expensive and significantly lighter than the copper cables being used presently. Unfortunately, industry efforts in trying to join them to connectors reliably have not been successful.

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Several methods, such as:

Cold/hot crimping after coating/plating the aluminium wires with tin, nickel, and other metals.
Friction welding/flash butt welding of solid connectors to stranded aluminium wires contained tightly in sleeves.
Laser welding of stranded aluminium wires in sleeves.
Soldering aluminium, including plasma/resistance soldering.
Ultrasonic welds were all tried unsuccessfully.

So, what has IWSL done differently? For starters, IWSL uses their ultra-high current resistance weld equipment to compact aluminium wires with an aluminium cove and melt them together with a connector into an entire weld nugget. Conducting and non-conducting portions of the weld tooling concentrate the weld current and heat at the connector-wire interface and melt them together to make this a robust manufacturing process.

This technology can be a revolutionary benefit to the electric bus, charging station cable and EV cable manufacturers in reducing the weight of the cable and its cost by several hundred US Dollars per vehicle.

The ultra-fast charging cable designs that presently need weight-lifting additions to the cable can now be manufactured with aluminium instead of copper to do away with the weight-lifting add-on.

Interested parties may contact IWSL for cooperative/collaborative work in this area.

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