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Volkswagen Group’s new Future Tracks program targeting digitalization era in auto industry; “James 2025”

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Dieter Kempf, President of BITKOM, the IT industry Association, Winterkorn declared that the increasingly intensive networking of cars with their surroundings and automatic driving would be the key topics for the intelligent mobility of the future. Their wishes concerning their own cars are changing faster and faster.

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China publishes plan to boost fuel-efficient and new energy vehicles and domestic auto industry; targeting 500K PHEVs and EVs in 2015, rising to 2M by 2020

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China has made progress with automotive energy-saving technologies over the past 10 years through implementing passenger car fuel consumption limits and the use of fiscal policy to encourage the purchase of small cars, the government statement noted. 2012 Chinese Auto Industry Development Report. L/100km (52.3

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Study of Sustainable Value in Automobile Manufacturing Finds Mixed Performance for Most OEMs, BMW and Toyota as the Clear Leaders

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A survey of the sustainability performance of 17 of the world’s leading automakers has found a mixed pattern when it comes to the sustainability performance of most of the car manufacturers. The BMW Group and Toyota are consistent industry leaders, creating extremely positive Sustainable Value over the entire review period—i.e.,

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Is Ford really coming back to India? What could be possible reasons

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It was one of the major blows for the country’s manufacturing sector as several other auto OEMs like Chevrolet, Datsun etc called it quit from India. The OEM used to make cars locally in India and some of its models like EcoSport were pretty popular in the country at some point. Contract manufacturing for other OEMs?

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ColognE-Mobil 2-Year EV Field Trial to Launch in January; 25 Ford BEVs

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Communication Infrastructure (cradle) - Auto. Acceptance of studies and development of business and financing models. Dr. Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, general business and automotive industry I; Prof. Dr. Heike Proff, Business Administration and automobile industry II. Alexander Schmidt, city planning and urban design.

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Japanese carmakers still ‘most sustainable’

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A focus on tailpipe CO2 emissions has distracted away from the impact of car production, suggests Professor Frank Figge who co-authored the ‘Sustainable Value in Automobile Manufacturing’ study. The survey attempts to close this gap.”. It is the first value-based method for assessing corporate sustainability performance.

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

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President Biden says his EV policies will result in “one million new jobs in the American automobile industry. By some estimates, upwards to 80,000 auto workers and a similar number in the auto supply chain have already been laid off globally to support the EV transition. One million.”. Neither does the U.S.

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