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Potential of CO2 reduction thanks to aluminium in trucks

Issued at 2014-09-18



According to the European Commission, Trucks and buses are responsible for about a quarter of CO2 emissions from road transport and despite some improvements in fuel consumption efficiency in recent years, emissions are still rising, mainly due to increasing road freight traffic. In May 2014, the European Commission adopted a comprehensive strategy to reduce CO2 emissions from heavy duty vehicles in both freight and passenger transport. In this context, the European Aluminium Association studied the present and future contribution of aluminium for reducing CO2 emissions of articulated trucks. This study analyses present and future potential CO2 savings when using aluminium as light-weighting solution for trucks & trailers. The study concludes that 1 kg of aluminium in today's articulated trucks saves 26 kg of CO2 during their whole life-cycle and every additional kg of aluminium in tomorrows articulated trucks would save a minimum of 19 kg of CO2 during their whole life-cycle. At this link the study: www.alueurope.eu

Source: Aluplanet



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