Jaguar Land Rover gives aluminium a second life

3 April 2019, 03:10:07

Jaguar Land Rover UK has announced that it is developing the next phase of its aluminium recycling strategy, which aims to close the raw material circle. The company calls it "the REALITY project" and it is co-funded by Innovate UK. It recovers the aluminium from end-of-life Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles and reforms it into a new high-grade aluminium to build next-generation products. This is currently being tested on early, pre-production Jaguar I-Pace prototypes. The scrap from the vehicles is sorted into various materials using high-tech sensors by Axion and the batteries enter their own second life process, which Jaguar Land Rover is developing. In addition to reducing the amount of virgin aluminium required to produce vehicles, the REALITY project is also expected to reduce the CO2 impact of production. The company has already reduced its global vehicle manufacturing operating CO2 by 46% per vehicle.

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