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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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The BMW Group and Toyota are consistent industry leaders, creating extremely positive Sustainable Value over the entire review period—i.e., they use all the economic, environmental and social resources considered in a value-creating way. Findings of the report include: Toyota and the BMW Group are industry leaders.

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Volkswagen Joins Model Fuels Consortium II

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Increasing fuel efficiency and reducing emissions have become the driving forces in the automobile industry. We view our membership as a valuable resource in our ongoing efforts to develop highly efficient and innovative engine designs. —Axel Winkler, head of the CFD-division at Volkswagen Group Powertrain Research.

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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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Experts urged greater efforts on China’s part to boost development of the new energy vehicle industry. Energy-saving and new energy vehicles have become the development direction of the international automobile industry. The scale of China’s automobile production and sales in the world, is expected to continue to grow.

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Moore’s Not Enough: ?4 New Laws of Computing

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I teach technology and information systems courses at Northeastern University in Boston. Certainly, the phenomenon of scalability was well known in the automobile industry before it made a significant impact on the computing industry. If a paper is copied four times, one can now share the resource with five people.

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Japanese carmakers still ‘most sustainable’

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The largest ever study of the sustainability of car manufacturing of 17 of the world’s leading car companies found that Asian car manufacturers are outperforming their North American, and many of their European competitors, in using their economic, environmental and social resources more efficiently. The survey attempts to close this gap.”.

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Career Opportunities in the Electric Vehicle Industry

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India stands to gain from this shift to electric vehicles since it has a relative abundance of renewable energy supplies and can take advantage of the trained labor force that is present in the nearby industries. These initiatives will be aligned with the National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF) to be in line with dynamic industry needs.

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NRC report finds Federal analysis to set LD CAFE and GHG standards generally of high quality; some technologies and issues should be re-examined

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However, the report authors found, the agencies should re-examine certain issues such as consumer behavior and the effectiveness of certain technologies in an upcoming mid-term review. Beginning in 2016, NHTSA and EPA will coordinate a mid-term review that must be finalized by April 2018. Background.

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