CO2 reduction through circular economy - BMW i Vision Circular shows potential

However, climate-friendly mobility does not automatically arise from a higher proportion of electric vehicles on the road. It is also crucial to reduce the use of primary material and the associated environmentally harmful degradation of raw materials and their often energy and CO2-intensive processing - especially in automotive engineering as one of the most raw material-intensive industries. With the BMW i Vision Circular, the BMW Group demonstrates how an automobile can be consistently designed according to the principles of the circular economy. The overriding design goal of this vision vehicle was to create a vehicle that is optimized for closed material cycles and achieves a quota of 100% recycled materials or 100% recyclability. In addition to bio-based, certified raw materials, materials that have already passed through a product life cycle are used - so-called secondary materials. This also applies to the energy storage: the solid-state battery in the BMW i Vision Circular is 100 percent recyclable and almost entirely made of materials that come from the recycling cycle. At the same time, it will achieve a significantly higher energy density with significantly fewer of the most valuable resources