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Take off the cinder blocks: Chevy Volt gets Alcoa aluminum wheels

Click for a complete gallery of the Chevrolet Volt See, the Volt program is indeed moving forward. At the very least, we now know what wheels the Volt will sport when (fingers crossed) it goes on sale in late 2010. Alcoa Automotive Wheels announced this week that GM has picked its forged aluminum wheels for the plug-in halo car. Alcoa's press release, pasted after the jump, notes that the lightweight nature of the aluminum wheels - Alcoa claims they're 20 percent lighter with twice the strength of a "similar cast aluminum wheel" - was the ... Read more →

Alcoa capturing carbon from aluminium plants in Austraila

Alcoa, one of the biggest aluminium-producing companies in the world has launched a new carbon capture program at their Kwinana factory, in Australia. Bauxite residue is a mixture of minerals that ...

Take off the cinder blocks: Chevy Volt gets Alcoa aluminum wheels 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

Click for a complete gallery of the Chevrolet Volt See, the Volt program is indeed moving forward. At the very least, we now know what wheels the Volt will sport when (fingers crossed) it goes on sale in late 2010. Alcoa Automotive Wheels announced this week that GM has picked its forged ...

Alcoa capturing carbon from aluminium plants in Austraila 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Alcoa, one of the biggest aluminium-producing companies in the world has launched a new carbon capture program at their Kwinana factory, in Australia. Bauxite residue is a mixture of minerals that are left behind when alumina is removed from bauxite. Although it is thoroughly washed, the residue ...



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