Setec Powerr

AUGUST 11, 2022

According to data released by BloombergNEF, Europe now accounts for 34% of global electric vehicle sales and is the second largest worldwide market after China. The European Automobile Manufacturers Association said that European countries need to continue to increase investment in electric vehicle infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2020

The company leads the way as the first automobile manufacturer to establish concrete CO 2 targets for its supply chain, which comprises around 12,000 tier 1 partners worldwide who supply material and components for vehicles, as well as additional suppliers providing production equipment or tools.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Two new reports—one on technology, the other on policy— released by the International Energy Agency (IEA) outline pathways to improve the fuel efficiency of combustion-engined road vehicles by 50% by the middle of the century, saving as much as four-fifths of current annual global oil consumption.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

In June 2013, Audi commissioned a power-to-gas facility in the north German town of Werlte, thus becoming the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy sources. Global Bioenergies: e-gasoline. The CO2-free sorbent can be re-used for many adsorption/desorption cycles. Earlier post.)

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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. Asian carmakers are still outperforming their Euorpean and American counterparts in environmental sustainability, a new report finds.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

In 2006, Honda was the first auto company to voluntarily and publicly announce targets for the reduction of its CO 2 emissions for its products and operations globally. The CO 2 emissions intensity of automobile production in North America was 592 kg/auto in FY14—down 21.6% Click to enlarge. from a high of 755 kg/auto in FY11.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 19, 2009

Even with CO2 levels well past the safe point of 350ppm and rising ever more dangerously , old school, baggy pants vaudevillian GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz, known throughout the auto biz as “Rhymes with Nutz and Putz&# says, “We can meet the law, but it’s going to take a lot of money.&#. Don’t worry, pal, you soon will.

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