Doesn’t aluminum manufacturing use much more electricity than with other materials? I wonder if anyone has modeled what the effect of the greater power load is on the grid and where the additional electricity is going to come from.
In the SE USA where most of the new auto production is headed, it will come from TVA. There are two ways to meet new fuel regs, size reduction and weight reduction. Americans have shown they don’t want smaller vehicles, thus there will be lighter materials used in ways not done before now