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Energy expenditure
Energy savings
Production
Additional
energy
expenditure
Basis
Energy
savings
Operation of the vehicle
Conventional
steel body
The use of primary
aluminium entails an
initially high expenditure
of energy, but this is offset
after a certain driven
distance by savings of
other energy carriers, e.g.
fuel.
In terms of aluminium
recycling the Audi Space
Frame ASF
®
is better from
the start.
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SSP239_003
Energy expenditure
becomes less
The relative energy expenditure for a new
aluminium body compared to a steel body is
reduced every time a scrap aluminium body is
recycled.
Recovering aluminium from scrap only costs
a fraction of the original energy expenditure.
Vehicle made of recycled
aluminium
Aluminium-intensive car
Primary aluminium
Steel body
(conventional car)
Energy expenditure
less from the start