Carbon fibre reinforced plastic costs in automobiles in the Sustainable Development Scenario, 2019-2070

Notes

CFRP = carbon fibre-reinforced plastic. Combined learning (spillover effect) across different applications is applied to the share of total price of each application associated to carbon fibre production. Solid line for technology costs represents the cost trajectory in the Sustainable Development Scenario while the “no spillover” case is a counterfactual that shows the slower price decline that would be observed if the technology could not benefit from experience gathered in different applications. Base year cost assumptions from Das et al. (2016).