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BMW’s Car2Car Project Proves 51% Of Scrap Can Feed New Cars

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BMW Car2Car 51% recycling focuses on high-quality materials returning to automotive use, led by steel, aluminum, and copper rather than whole-car claims.

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BMW wants to recycle more raw materials from end-of-life vehicles and use them in new cars in the Car2Car test, but the 51 percent describe something different than half of the car.

·Berlin, Germany
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BMW has tested a new way to reuse materials from end-of-life cars. The project aims to reintroduce these resources into the manufacture of new vehicles, and initial results show that advanced recycling has far greater potential than previously imagined. When a car reaches the end of its useful life, not everything has to end up, at best, in a scrapyard. BMW has demonstrated that a significant portion of the materials from a used vehicle can be r…

We all have in mind the sad image of the car crash, this metal graveyard where our cars end up crushed in cubes. For decades, the industry has simply recycled the minimum trade union, often for second zone uses that have nothing to do with the demands of the automotive world. But the Bavarian manufacturer, supported by a consortium of industrial partners and the German government, decided to move to higher speed. With a sharp research program sp…

BMW has just proved that it was possible to recover a large part of the materials from vehicles at the end of the year.... Read more Can an old car really be used to make a new one? BMW proves that yes! appeared first on Automobile Clean.

High-quality components for new cars can be manufactured from end-of-life vehicles. The BMW Group, together with its consortium partners, has demonstrated this through the Car2Car research project. The project focused on the question of under what conditions materials from scrap vehicles can be processed to such an extent that they can be reused in the automotive industry. The so-called Car2Car rate, i.e., the proportion of materials from an end…

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·Bilbao, Spain
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BMW BLOG broke the news on Monday, August 10, 2026.
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