Reduce – Reuse – Recycle. These are the three major strategies to lower emissions and ressource consumption. EDAG as an engineering service provider has developed different approaches following these strategies.
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To decarbonize the automotive value chain, innovations that enhance the life cycle and circularity performance of the vehicles are needed at a faster pace. To support this decarbonization goal, ALMA, an EU-sponsored Horizon 2020 project, aims to develop a novel, lightweight structure (at TRL 8) for a battery electric vehicle that has lower environmental impacts compared to conventional design. ALMA project applies a two-level approach: 1) holistic eco-design of the novel vehicle structure and 2) adoption of circular economy principles across the entire vehicle life cycle.
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Presented by Thijs Romans, Group Leader Engineering Analysis at VIRO. In order to use composites in automotive applications, it must be proven that existing solutions (metallic based) can be replaced by them. This involves many considerations (strength, fatigue, weight, durability, cost, etc.).
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