Steel Industry Supports Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership Study Highlighting Life Cycle Emissions To Properly Assess Future Vehicle Carbon Footprint

BRUSSELS, 29 June 2011 – According to a new study, “Preparing for a Life Cycle CO2 Measure”, vehicle manufacturing emissions can represent 23 to 46 percent of total vehicle emissions.  These findings, recently released by the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LCVP), an advisory group working to accelerate the shift to low-carbon vehicles and fuels, and conducted by Ricardo, a global engineering firm, demonstrate that emissions other than tailpipe emissions are significant and therefore need to be included in future vehicle regulations.

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Using an LCA approach reveals that the lightest material is not necessarily the least carbon intensive. In this video, Dr. Geyer explains why.

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WorldAutoSteel announced today the release of an updated model for vehicle life cycle assessment (LCA), the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) GHG Material Comparison Model-June 2010. The newly updated Excel-based model now includes steel emissions data from the 2010 World Steel Association’s (worldsteel) global steel Life Cycle Inventory(LCI) and the most recent (2005) dataset provided by the International Aluminium Institute (IAI).

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This is a video that explains in very basic terminology and lots of pictures, what Life Cycle Assessment is and why steel is a green material.

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The objective of this study is to benchmark, in terms of their life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, vehicle body-in-white designs based on advanced high-strength steels (AHSS), like ULSAB-AVC, as well as aluminium, compared to designs based on mild steel. This article provides an executive summary of the report, and the parametric model in an Excel worksheet for download and use and the study's methodology report.

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