Auto Industry Downsizing Future Resource 
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 8, 2012
carry out competitiveness proofing exercise for major future initiatives, including those with a significant impact on the automotive industry. re-launch the inter-service task force to study and follow up the main cases of automotive plant closures or significant downsizing.
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AUGUST 3, 2011
Nearly half the respondents say the greatest change in materials will be in powertrain systems, noting that advanced propulsion systems—from downsized engines to hybrid and electric vehicle systems and batteries—will drive new material requirements. The next highest response was 42% for consumer acceptance.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 19, 2013
This first report (Phase I) examines only the impact of improving the efficiency of fossil-fueled vehicles, in which efficiency gains are delivered by the improvement of the internal combustion engine vehicle, including lightweighting, engine downsizing and hybridization. —“An Economic Assessment of Low Carbon Vehicles”.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 5, 2012
While we can expect no more than modest demand in the foreseeable future, we can also expect OEMs to intensify investment, fully appreciating what is at stake in a very competitive industry. —Gary Silberg, National Automotive Industry leader for KPMG LLP. —Gary Silberg.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 10, 2009
Tom Cackette, Chief Deputy Executive Office of the California Air Resources Board, spent the bulk of his talk during the opening panel discussing the response to climate change, which he called “ the defining environmental challenge of this century. Current 50-state baseline Projected future baseline. SULEV/Tier 2 Bin 2 is the target.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2009
In a talk on gauging the competition between advanced vehicle powertrains, Steven Plotkin, staff scientist with Argonne National Laboratory’s Center for Transportation Research struck a slightly more pessimistic note in describing results of Argonne’s Multi-Pathways Transportation Futures Study. Steve Plotkin. Steven Plotkin. Tax the fuel.”
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JULY 17, 2015
It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Appendix B: Car of the Future: A Comparison of Alternative Vehicles.
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