Analysis commissioned and funded by The Aluminum Affiliation’s Aluminum Transportation Group has studied the content material and economics of aluminum in EVs.
In a White Paper, authors from FEV Consulting, Novelis and Constellium discovered that present BEVs have the next aluminum content material than comparable ICE automobiles and that aluminum content material rises as EV dimension and efficiency rise.
“Regardless of anticipated enhancements in battery value and storage density, aluminum lightweighting options are anticipated to stay economically enticing for not less than the following decade,” the authors write. “Lightweighting battery-electric automobiles with aluminum supplies extra financial advantages when all the gross sales fleet is taken into account, creating extra financial profit and additional growing the financial viability of aluminum lightweighting.” To look at this, the researchers pieced collectively a cross-section of present automobiles, together with a small metropolis automobile, a midsize household crossover automobile and a big pickup truck.
“The brand new information quantifies and reaffirms that as battery-electric automobiles turn out to be extra extensively accessible, lowering mass by way of the appliance of aluminum, at optimized ranges, affords important internet value financial savings,” stated research co-author Blake Zuidema.
Supply: Aluminum Transportation Group
