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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

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KPMG developed 3 nexuses linked by climate change to represent the challenges of sustainable growth. The 10 global sustainability megaforces that may impact business over the next two decades are: Climate Change: This may be the one global megaforce that directly impacts all others. Sector analysis: Automobiles.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I believe strongly that this country has to get off oil," he says, sitting beside a massive V-16 engine on display in his office. The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I I got beaten down a number of times."

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