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Sustainable Production Technologies of Emission-reduced Lightweight Car Concepts

项目名称：	Sustainable Production Technologies of Emission-reduced Lightweight Car Concepts
摘要：	The European Commission (EC) estimates in its White Paper, European Transport Policy for 2010: Time to decide, that the demand for passenger transport in the European Union (EU) will rise by 24% between 1998 and 2010, with an expansion of the car fleet by 3 million vehicles a year. This, together with the fulfilment of the EC directive on end-of-life vehicle recycling of 95% recycling rate, is a key challenge for the European transport industry if it is to enable a sustainable mobility in Europe. As 28% of the emissions of CO2 are related to transport (of which 84% are by road transport), reduction of CO2 emissions in road transport is crucial to achieve the targets agreed in the Kyoto Protocol. Weight saving is one of the most effective ways to reduce fuel consumption and thus CO2 emissions of road transport. An example for the potential environmental impact of weight saving in SLC is described in the figure below. Addressing these challenges while maintaining a vehicle's safety performance is crucial for the competitiveness of the European automotive industry, which employs over 12 million EU citizens. Only by maintaining the knowledge-intensity of automotive manufacturing at a maximum level can the EU avoid massive transfers of car production to lower wage regions in the world, so it is imperative to preserve and increase the high-quality employment. Today it is possible to construct vehicles with considerable weight reductions in expensive small/medium volume series. SLC focuses on drastically reducing the weight of mass-produced vehicle structures (e.g. Golf, Astra, Megane, Punto, etc.) and addresses specific challenges such as a low acceptance rate of risk and quality variance, short production cycle times, low manufacturing costs, short time-to-market and recyclability. SLC's main objective is to develop the integrated knowledge and technological capabilities required to design, engineer and manufacture multi-material car bodies at mass volumes (1 000/day) with a substantial weight reduction of up to 50% of body-in-white (BIW), combined with reduced raw material consumption of up to 30%. This will compare to series vehicles at manufacturing and assembly costs that do not significantly exceed those of state-of-the-art series cars of the same class (i.e. average costs of up to €5/kg weight savings).
状态：	Active
资金：	0.00
资助组织：	Sustainable Surface Transport
项目负责人：	Goede, Martin
开始时间：	20050201
实际结束时间：	20090131
主题领域：	Highways；Vehicles and Equipment；I15: Environment