New XJ has been developed with a clear focus on environmental responsibility. It's an enlightened, intelligent and sustainable approach that includes reducing energy usage in design, manufacture and distribution, the use of lightweight recyclable materials, and the introduction of a new range of engines that deliver both efficiency and performance.
In addition to comprehensive real world testing, "virtual" testing was used extensively during XJ's development. This included 7,000 virtual crash tests and more than 1 million miles of virtual driving, lessening the environmental impact of the programme, as well as providing much more data than could have been collected by physical testing alone.
Jaguar's rigorous approach to efficiency continues at the assembly plant. Innovative manufacturing techniques - such as a reduction in the number of stamping actions used to produce body panels, and the elimination of welding from the body shell construction process - mean that the energy needed to build the new XJ is significantly reduced.
XJ's body shell is constructed from aluminium, 50% of which has been reclaimed and recycled - a process which uses just 5% of the energy needed to produce new aluminium, and saves around 3.3 tonnes of CO2 per car. Moreover, lightweight aluminium construction means XJ's use less fuel and produce fewer emissions than an equivalent steel bodied car.
In addition to the recycled aluminium used in the body shell, 37kg of other recycled or renewable materials are used in the construction of each car, it is mercury-free, and all veneers are sourced from sustainable forests.
More than 70% of the Jaguars produced at the Castle Bromwich assembly plant - including the new XJ - are transported by train via a purpose-built railhead which opened in 2003. It's a distribution system that reduces road congestion and truck exhaust emissions, and it is estimated that by 2013 will have saved an estimated 60 million truck miles.
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