Green Your Ride: Is Carbon Fiber the Greenest Choice?
Posted on June 9, 2010
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By Brandon Rose
BMW and Mercedes have a great track record when it comes to making sporty cars lighter and faster. This time, their vehicles are losing weight for a different reason: carbon fiber.
Using Carbon fiber instead of lightweight alloys like aluminum and magnesium can reduce weight in future passenger vehicles to meet upcoming CAFE regulations of 34.1 mpg by 2016. However, Toyota has concluded a study that carbon-fiber production creates more CO2 per pound than any other automotive material in use today, reports Ward’s Auto.
Looks like BMW and Mercedes need to rethink their “going green” approach. Perhaps that’s why this artist decided to make his Porsche out of aluminum foil and cardboard:
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