The new year was opened with drinks and good wishes. Then Cees ten Broek , Director WorldAutoSteel, gave a Lecture on: FutureSteel Vehicle: strong, safe and sustainable. After explaining what the WorldAutosteel Organisation aims at and which Steel producers participate in it, the FutureSteel Vehicle project was discussed in detail. Steel has always been one of the most widely used materials in the automotive industry. Under pressure from governments, this industry faces the task of reducingCO2 emissions. In doing so, automotive designers are increasingly looking at alternative materials to achieve weight reduction. This overlooks the fact that the alternative materials are often much more expensive than steel and are moreCO2 intensive in the manufacturing and recycling phases. With this starting point, WorldAutosteel launched the FutureSteelVehicle programme, with the aim of demonstrating that using steel remains an excellent solution in this regard. Ten Broek went into detail about the results so far. It generated a lively discussion. There were 31 listeners.

Description

The Board of KIVI NIRIA Region Noord-Holland invites you and your partner to the New Year Meeting with a Lecture by Cees ten Broek on Wednesday 16 January 2013. Ten Broek is Director WorldAutoSteel.
The Lecture is about: FutureSteel Vehicle: strong, safe, sustainable. The meeting will take place at the Theehuis Cruquius and there will be a lunch on site beforehand.

FutureSteel Vehicle: strong, safe, Sustainable.
Steel has always been one of the most widely used materials in the automotive industry. Under pressure from governments, the automotive industry faces the huge task of reducing CO2 emissions. To achieve this, new propulsion technologies are being introduced, such as EV (fully electric propulsion) and other hybrid technologies. To enable further CO2 reductions, designers are increasingly looking at alternative materials to enable weight reduction. This is forgetting that such alternative materials are often much more expensive than steel and that these materials are more CO2 intensive in the manufacturing and recycling phase.
With this starting point, WorldAutoSteel - an international consortium of steel companies - has launched the FutureSteelVehicle programme (FSV), with the aim of showing the automotive industry that electric propulsion technology goes very well with the use of steel in bodywork. This lecture will elaborate on the results of the design phase. This will show that using state-of-the-art steels, a body mass of 190 kg is achievable compared to 290 kg for a reference vehicle and 230 kg for a best-in-class reference. The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA ) of the entire vehicle was taken into account when the design was created.
The results of the programme have been very positively received by both customers (automotive manufacturers) and government agencies around the world. A number of additional studies were also initiated in 2012 and 2013, which will be covered in this presentation

12.00h Reception with drinks
12.30h Sandwich lunch
13.30h Presentation C. ten Broek

Speaker(s)

Cees ten Broek, Director WorldAutoSteel

Location

Teahouse Cruquius,. Cruquiusdijk 32

2142 ER Cruquius

Organiser

Region North-Holland

Name and contact details for information

Ir. Rien Vos, tel.072-5321430

mjmvos@hetnet.nl