The BMW Group is partnering with representatives from the recycling industry, commodity processors, and scientific community to explore a so-called circular economy in automotive manufacturing. The Car2Car project – supported by a 6.4-million euro grant from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action – aims to investigate the materials aluminum, steel, glass, copper, and plastic.
The project focuses on developing innovative dismantling and automated sorting methods to improve the quality of secondary raw materials obtained from recycling end-of-life vehicles. The aim is to increase the proportion of secondary materials used in BMW's new models from around 30 to 50 percent.
