NEW WIRING for VEHICLES

Informacje na temat projektu

NEWIR

Identyfikator umowy o grant: 717485

DOI

10.3030/717485

Projekt został zamknięty

Data podpisania przez KE 1 Marca 2016

Data rozpoczęcia 1 Marca 2016

Data zakończenia 30 Czerwca 2016

Finansowanie w ramach

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Smart, Green And Integrated Transport

Koszt całkowity

€ 71 429,00

Wkład UE

€ 50 000,00

Koordynowany przez

OTOMEC SRL
Italy

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - NEWIR (NEW WIRING for VEHICLES)

Okres sprawozdawczy: 2016-03-01 do 2016-06-30

Podsumowanie kontekstu i ogólnych celów projektu

One of the most important objectives of the European automotive industry is to reduce the vehicles’ weight in order to lower the consumptions and consequently the environmental impact. To this end one of the main strategic drivers is to lighten as much as possible every kind of car component, included the electrical wiring.
The goal of our project is to address this issue, developing an integrated plant that will electro-plate aluminium wire with copper and normalise it. These new cables will weigh about half as much as the equivalent copper cables and will have an approximately 40% lower production cost.

The replacement of all electric copper wires in a mid-sized car with galvanic plated aluminum electric wires can lead to a weight reduction of 85 Kg, which brings, for this application only, to an average reduction of 115Kg in CO2 emission.

All activities carried out in the feasibility have demonstrated the validity of the business idea, both from the technological and the economic points of view.

Prace wykonane od początku projektu do końca okresu sprawozdawczego oraz najważniejsze dotychczasowe rezultaty

The Pilot Trials have demonstrated that electro plating with copper a pure aluminium wire we obtain a product with resistivity, conductivity and mechanical properties suitable for electric applications in the automotive industry; it was proved that the thermal treatment, necessary to draw and twist the wire, is not influencing the conductivity.

No high risks able to harm the development of our project have been identified; in any case potential risks which can affect the advancement of the project have been discussed, with their consequences and probability they could happen. It has been defined a list of risk-mitigation measures.

The business planning has allowed to define with precision all the economic elements involved in the project and the related investment needs; the projections in terms of revenues and net-profit developed in the business plan are positive, therefore they encourage us to continue the project.

Innowacyjność oraz oczekiwany potencjalny wpływ (w tym dotychczasowe znaczenie społeczno-gospodarcze i szersze implikacje społeczne projektu)

Having demonstrated the validity of our idea, if we will reach our market goal, from the fifth year of project completion more than 1% in weight of the copper used to produce cables for the transport sector in Europe can be replaced by aluminium, so that European copper cable manufacturers will save tens of tons of copper per year with a significant economic advantage. Even more important, they will able to produce a wire lighter and cheaper than an equivalent copper cable, therefore very attractive for the car producers.

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