Remove Automobile Industry Remove Climate Remove Manufacturer Remove Water
article thumbnail

How Lindstrom is making EV cell manufacturing safer via its workwear | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

Picture this: Workers clad in standard-issue workwear, step onto the factory floor involved in cell manufacturing for electric vehicles (EVs). Recycling polyester requires significantly less energy compared to the production of virgin polyester, and blending 35% cotton with recycled polyester mitigates the overall water footprint, they added.

article thumbnail

Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

Green Car Congress

Audi has opened its e-gas plant in Werlte, making it the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy carriers. Water and oxygen are the only by-products. At this facility, microorganisms use water (brackish, salt or wastewater) sunlight and carbon dioxide to produce high-purity fuels.

article thumbnail

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

Green Car Congress

Sustainable Value Margin—the ratio of Sustainable Value to sales—for each of the evaluated manufacturers. 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. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

article thumbnail

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

Green Car Congress

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. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge.

article thumbnail

Green Hydrogen Cars: How They are Different?

Get Electric Vehicle

Fuel cells, like stem cells in medical science, are a new technology in the automobile industry. The hydrogen and oxygen in water are separated using an electrical current in this process. Furthermore, unlike coal and oil, it is a clean energy source that produces only water vapor and leaves no residue in the air.

article thumbnail

Japanese carmakers still ‘most sustainable’

Green Cars News

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. There is a mixed picture among European manufacturers.

Sodium 36
article thumbnail

“Energiewende” in a tank; Audi e-fuels targeting carbon-neutral driving with synthetic fuels from renewables, H2O and CO2; Swiss policy test case

Green Car Congress

solar and wind), water and CO 2 to produce liquid or gaseous fuels with a very low carbon intensity. to the realization of the renewable energy + water + CO 2 formula. At this facility, the engineered microorganisms use water (brackish, salt or wastewater), sunlight and carbon dioxide to produce the fuels. Earlier post.)

Audi 150