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BMW Research Finds 51% of a Scrapped Car Could Be Recycled Into New Cars
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Article Summary BMW’s Car2Car project found that 51% of a scrapped vehicle’s materials could potentially be recycled back into new automotive applications.
Under advanced processing and sorting conditions, researchers managed to increase what BMW calls the “Car2Car rate” from just 6% to 51%.
Using more advanced recycling processes, BMW says the Car2Car rate for steel jumped from just 1% to 81%.
With processes closer to what is commonly used today, the overall Car2Car rate was only 6%.
BMW Already Built More Than 100,000 Parts From Recovered SteelAfter testing the recycled steel, BMW integrated material produced through the project into a manufacturing trial at Plant Leipzig.