CLIC Curated Life cycle Inventory Collection

Two-wheelers

Glider lightweighting

Reference product Glider lightweighting GLO

Published Version 1.0.0 Latest published

Stable dataset identity glider-lightweighting

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kilogram
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Published
2026-07-15
Version
1.0.0
Technology maturity
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Overview

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Description

A report from the Steel Recycling Institute (Sebastian and Thimons 2017) indicates that every kilogram of steel in a car glider can be subsituted by 0.75 kilogram of AHSS or 0.68 kilogram of aluminium. Looking at the material composition of different car models three years apart, (Hottle et al. 2017) show that steel is in fact increasingly replaced by a combination of both aluminium and AHSS. However, they also show that the use of AHSS is generally preferred to aluminium as it allows greater mass reduction at a lower cost. Hence, we will consider that, for a given mass reduction to achieve, two-third comes from using AHSS, and one third comes from using aluminium. This means that one kilogram of mass reduction is achieved by replacing 3.57 kilogram of steel by: 1.76 kilogram of AHSS and 0.8 kilogram of aluminium.

Source

Technical or institutional report

Sacchi, R. and Bauer, C. 2023. Life-cycle inventories for on-road vehicles. Paul Scherrer Institut.

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Dataset details

Classification
Two-wheelers (transport/road/two-wheelers)
Background database
ecoinvent / 3.7
Background system model
cut-off
Biosphere database
ecoinvent / 3.7
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Classification path: Transport > Road transport > Two-wheelers

Keywords

  • road transport
  • two-wheelers

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Technology profile

Technology characterization

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Commercial maturity stage
Mature commercial
Design capacity
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Design capacity unit
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Capacity factor
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Annual production volume
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Annual production volume unit
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Annual production volume year
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Plant lifetime
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Inventory workspace

Inventory & impacts

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Precalculated screening profile

Environmental impacts

Results per kilogram, using UVEK 2025 and the ecoinvent 3.10 biosphere. Exchange rows are shaded from green to red by relative contribution to the selected indicator.

Climate change 3.49382 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram
Screening result

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Show all 16 indicator totals
Acidification 0.0116554 mol H+-Eq / kilogram
Climate change 3.49382 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram
Freshwater ecotoxicity 8.71529 CTUe / kilogram
Freshwater eutrophication 0.000125193 kg P-Eq / kilogram
Marine eutrophication 0.00204798 kg N-Eq / kilogram
Terrestrial eutrophication 0.00886894 mol N-Eq / kilogram
Human toxicity, cancer -7.6962e-09 CTUh / kilogram
Human toxicity, non-cancer -1.9162e-09 CTUh / kilogram
Ionising radiation 2.46303 kBq U235-Eq / kilogram
Land use 12.5624 dimensionless / kilogram
Ozone depletion 7.9532e-08 kg CFC-11-Eq / kilogram
Particulate matter -1.4847e-08 disease incidence / kilogram
Photochemical ozone formation 0.00169476 kg NMVOC-Eq / kilogram
Resource use, fossils 53.8702 MJ, net calorific value / kilogram
Resource use, minerals and metals -2.4491e-05 kg Sb-Eq / kilogram
Water use 67.1506 m3 world Eq deprived / kilogram
Calculation details

Profile uvek-2025-ef-v3-1-4e70d56a85b1 · artifact 4e70d56a85b1 · calculated 2026-09-30 14:17 UTC. These screening results do not replace a reviewed comparative LCA.

Dataset contents

Reference flows, emissions, technosphere inputs, and natural resources in this published snapshot.

Outputs

Reference flow

1 row

Reference production exchanges extracted from the uploaded inventory.

Exchange Reference / categories Amount Unit Metadata Climate change contribution
Glider lightweighting
GLO
Glider lightweighting
1
kilogram - Reference flow

Inputs

Technosphere inputs

4 rows

Linked foreground or background product inputs used by this dataset.

Exchange Reference / categories Amount Unit Metadata Climate change contribution
market for steel, low-alloyed, hot rolled
GLO
steel, low-alloyed, hot rolled
1.77
kilogram -
3.78277 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram 108.3% of total
BAFU:2025
market for aluminium alloy, AlLi
GLO
aluminium alloy, AlLi
0.8
kilogram -
5.61929 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram 160.8% of total
BAFU:2025
metal working, average for aluminium product manufacturing
RER
metal working, average for aluminium product manufacturing
0.8
kilogram -
1.72142 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram 49.3% of total
BAFU:2025
market for steel, low-alloyed, hot rolled
GLO
steel, low-alloyed, hot rolled
-3.57
kilogram -
-7.62966 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram -218.4% of total
BAFU:2025

Parameters

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Quality and maturity

TRL scale Higher is more mature. 9: routine commercial deployment 8: commercial, but still niche or scaling 7: first-commercial or advanced demonstration 6: engineering-scale demonstration 5: pilot or large prototype 4: bench or lab validated 3: research-stage concept Technology readiness level
1 to 5 scale Lower is better. 1: strong market- or operating-data basis 2: commercially plausible, but still somewhat specific 3: partly representative, with modelling or adaptation bias 4: pilot, proxy-based, scaled-up, or prospective 5: weak representation of the real technology state Technological representativeness
1 to 5 scale Lower is better. 1: geography matches the claimed scope well 2: regionally credible, but broader or less exact 3: generic regional or global proxy 4: weak proxy or clear geographic mismatch 5: geography is effectively unsupported Geographical representativeness
1 to 5 scale Lower is better. 1: current for that technology class 2: slightly dated, but still good 3: dated enough to need caution 4: stale, pilot-era, or prospective relative to current practice 5: clearly not representative of the current state Temporal representativeness

Missing exchange uncertainty generation: Not requested

Representativeness scores use a 1–5 scale when provided. Lower scores indicate a closer fit to the modeled technology, geography, or time period.

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