Low carbon vehicles: opportunities and challenges for light metals
Author: Harmer, S.1
Source: Materials Technology: Advanced Performance Materials, Volume 24, Number 3, September 2009 , pp. 131-132(2)
Publisher: Maney Publishing
Abstract:
A true low carbon vehicle must have minimal carbon inputs to the environment at all stages of its life. This requirement applies throughout its life: from the extraction and refining of its materials of construction, its manufacture and assembly, its use and finally end of life, when it is recycled and, where possible, parts are reused. This article summarises the views of the Light Metals Board of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, expressed in a recent survey on the potential of light metals in future light weight vehicles.Document Type: Research article
DOI: 10.1179/106678509X12495696904823
Affiliations: 1: Materials Information Service and Secretary to the Light Metals Division, The Institute of Materials, Mineral and Mining, 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AF, UK

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