ALUMINUM SUSTAINABILITY STUDY

摘要

A newly released international sus-tainability study on automotive materials from the Society of Automotive Engineers' (SAE) 2010 World Congress highlights aluminum's and magnesium's superior life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions reduction and energy savings benefits. Initiated to explore the potential for increased use of magnesium in automobiles, the Magnesium Front End Research Development (MFERD) project conducted a full life-cycle assessment study on the impact of steel, magnesium and aluminum front-end parts in a Cadillac CTS, and it concluded aluminum was the environmental winner.