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Alcoa Executive Emphasizes Aluminum Advantages for Commercial Vehicle Market at SAE Conference
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Illinois (October 6, 2009)—Low weight aluminum offers real-world fuel economy and emissions benefits to manufacturers of commercial vehicles. That was the key message Todd Summe, Division Manager, Product Design & Development for Alcoa, told attendees at the SAE Commercial Vehicle Engineering & Exhibition recently. Fleet and owner operators want increased payload, better fuel economy and reduced emissions – aluminum delivers on all fronts.
 Download “The Aluminum Advantage: Commercial Vehicle Applications” Presentation slides (1.7 MB PDF)
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Greater Aluminium Use Will Lower Transportation Greenhouse Gas Emissions Worldwide, New Study Confirms
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Dalian, China (July 26, 2007)—The world aluminium industry reported today that the application of automotive aluminium in passenger cars manufactured in 2006 will lead to potential global savings of approximately 140 million tons of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to energy savings equivalent to about 60 billion litres of crude oil over the lifecycle of these vehicles.
Download presentation by Alcoa Asia-Pacific president Jinya Chen
These energy savings and emissions reduction numbers were included in a presentation by Marlen Bertram, IAI research associate, at the 2007 China Aluminium & Transportation Conference in Dalian, China, entitled "Improving Sustainability in the Transport Sector Through Weight Reduction and the Application of Aluminium"
Read the complete news announcement from from the Aluminum Association, EAA and IAI
Download the complete report
Download an Excel-based lifecycle analysis model (WinZip)
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Scientific study shows the environmental benefits of lightweighting road and rail vehicles
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"Energy Savings by Light-Weighting"
IFEU - Institut für Energie und Umweltforschung
Heidelberg GmbH
Commissioned by the International Aluminium Institute (IAI)
This study provides an overview on the potential lifetime energy and CO2 savings accomplished by reducing the weight of transportation vehicles, with a special focus on road and rail.
view a summary graph
read the introduction
download the report (PDF, 736 KB)
download supplemental IFEU presentation on energy savings in European articulated trucks (PDF, 389 KB)
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Scientific study shows the environmental benefits of lightweighting marine and air transportation
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"Energy Savings by Light-Weighting -- Part II"
IFEU - Institut für Energie und Umweltforschung
Heidelberg GmbH
Commissioned by the International Aluminium Institute (IAI)
This study supplements and follows up Part I with additional analysis on road and rail vehicles. It also provides an overview of potential lifetime energy and CO2 savings accomplished by lightweighting additional vehicles including planes, ferry boats, ocean vessels and light duty trucks. Finally, the study estimates the total potential impact of lightweighting on a global level.
view a summary graph
read the Executive Summary
download the report (PDF, 736 KB)
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Alcoa is leading the aluminium industry's efforts to make aluminium climate neutral.
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Lightweighting
Alcoa researchers have forecasted that with global projections for the use of aluminium in cars and trucks and the numbers of vehicles in use, aluminium will increasingly become part of the global climate change solution. The aluminium industry has the potential to reach a climate neutral state by 2017.
This means the global warming impacts of aluminium production will be fully offset by the amount of carbon dioxide emissions saved by the use of aluminium in the transportation industry.
download the report (PDF, 149 KB)
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