What's Hot

    The ID. Buzz Cargo-based ‘Glamper Van’ is back for more festival fun this summer as it heads out on tour

    15th August 2023

    Volkswagen ID.7 prototype reviews

    18th April 2023

    Volkswagen previews new ID 2 electric car

    16th March 2023
    Facebook Twitter Instagram
    Facebook Twitter Instagram
    Motoring Nation
    • Home
    • News
    • Jaguar News
    • Audi News
    • Kia News
    • Seat News
    • Porsche News
    • Hyundai News
    • Volkswagen News
    Motoring Nation
    Home»Green Car News»JAGUAR XE CELEBRATES ITS FIRST YEAR WITH MAJOR RECYCLING MILESTONE
    Green Car News

    JAGUAR XE CELEBRATES ITS FIRST YEAR WITH MAJOR RECYCLING MILESTONE

    28th April 2016Updated:14th September 20212 Mins Read
    Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email
    Share
    Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email

    As the Jaguar XE celebrates its first full-year of sales, ‘REALCAR’, the pioneering recycled aluminium project that contributes to the awarding winning saloon’s aluminium-intensive body has reached a significant milestone.

    Jaguar Land Rover has reclaimed over 50,000 tonnes of aluminium scrap, the weight of 200,000 XE body shells, back into the production process during 2015/16, preventing more than 500,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere by not using primary aluminium material.

    The figures are a result of project ‘REALCAR’ which involves 11 UK press shops implementing a closed-loop, segregating waste aluminium scrap so that it can be sent back into production to be re-melted into recycled aluminium sheet for use in Jaguar Land Rover vehicles.

    The Jaguar Land Rover-led research project, part funded by Innovate UK, also saw the development of a recycled aluminium-based alloy which can accept a higher percentage of the recovered scrap. In 2014, the Jaguar XE became the first car in the world to use this innovative high-strength aluminium alloy, developed by project partner Novelis.

    More than £7m has been invested across Jaguar Land Rover’s own Halewood, Castle Bromwich and Solihull press shops to install intricate segregation systems to capture and distribute the aluminium scrap for re-melting, reducing waste, retaining higher quality and value in the material.

    Recovering aluminium in this way offers huge sustainability benefits, with aluminium recycling requiring up to 95% less energy than primary aluminium production.

    Nick Rogers, Group Engineering Director, said: “Innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Jaguar Land Rover. We are driven by the desire to produce increasingly world-class, light-weight, vehicles, but we also want to be world leading in how we build them.”

    “Innovative projects such as REALCAR demonstrate our commitment to meeting our sustainability challenges head-on. Its success so far marks a significant step towards our goal of having up to 75% recycled aluminium content in our vehicle body structures by 2020.”

    The structural grade of recycled aluminium has since been tested and introduced in the lightweight aluminium bodies of the All-New Jaguar XF and F-PACE models.

    REALCAR is part of Jaguar Land Rover’s circular economy strategy to improve resource efficiency across the business.

    Electric Cars
    Share. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email

    Related Posts

    The ID. Buzz Cargo-based ‘Glamper Van’ is back for more festival fun this summer as it heads out on tour

    15th August 2023

    Volkswagen ID.7 prototype reviews

    18th April 2023

    Volkswagen previews new ID 2 electric car

    16th March 2023

    Comments are closed.

    Our Picks

    The ID. Buzz Cargo-based ‘Glamper Van’ is back for more festival fun this summer as it heads out on tour

    15th August 2023

    Every 5th car in the UK had been damaged in the past

    14th December 2022

    CUPRA SHOWCASES THREE NEW MODELS FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS

    10th June 2022

    Renault Scenic Vision concept car

    19th May 2022
    Stay In Touch
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Pinterest
    • Instagram
    • YouTube
    Don't Miss
    Green Car News

    The ID. Buzz Cargo-based ‘Glamper Van’ is back for more festival fun this summer as it heads out on tour

    15th August 2023

    The ID. Buzz Cargo-based ‘Glamper Van’ is back for more festival fun this summer as…

    Volkswagen previews new ID 2 electric car

    16th March 2023

    The Audi activesphere concept

    30th January 2023

    All-new Jeep Avenger, the First-ever Fully Electric Jeep SUV, Arrives in Europe in 2023

    9th September 2022
    Facebook Twitter Instagram Pinterest YouTube
    © 2023 Motoring Nation.

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.