Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
The report, which covers the period between 1999 and 2007, applies the Sustainable Value approach developed by Prof. The ranking of the 17 manufacturers based on the Sustainable Value Margin. The only other major volume manufacturer managing to keep up with the two sustainability leaders is DaimlerChrysler, but only intermittently.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 5, 2011
Closer to home, the federal fuel economy standards require the average fleet fuel economy of OEMs that sell vehicles in the USA to be 35.5 As private companies, automobile manufacturers look for the lowest cost means of getting from A to B and the premiums that they can charge for getting from A to B faster. mpg by 2016.
Green Cars News
OCTOBER 30, 2009
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. billion from 1999 to 2007. The survey attempts to close this gap.”. GM achieved a sustainable value of minus €9.87
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 30, 2009
The 1979 Iranian crisis and related oil price shock accelerated Brazil’s conversion of its gasoline supply and automobile fleet. Automobile manufacturers were given tax breaks to produce cars that ran on hydrous ethanol, and, by 1980, every automobile company in Brazil was following this lead. Brewster, S.C.,
Green Car Congress
APRIL 21, 2010
At present, 17 of the 27 EU Member States levy CO 2 -related taxes on passenger cars, and 15 governments provide tax incentives for electrically chargeable vehicles, according to the newly published European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) Tax Guide 2010. Generally, registration taxes threaten fleet renewal.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 16, 2011
This approach allows automobile manufacturers to create packages of technologies that can be tailored to meet specific cost and effectiveness targets, as opposed to developing diesel or full hybrid alternatives that offer a single large benefit, but at a significant cost increase. Compression-ignition technologies.
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