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BMW Group makes sustainability and efficient resource management central to its strategic direction

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The BMW Group is making sustainability and resource efficiency central to the company’s strategic direction. The principle of continuous improvement will remain at the heart of the strategy to reduce CO 2 emissions and increase resource efficiency. As a premium car company, it is our ambition to lead the way in sustainability.

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Schaeffler introducing 4in1 electric axles for EVs

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In the future, Schaeffler will supply beam axles to automobile manufacturers, particularly in North America. Heat is a scarce and valuable resource in electric cars, which do not have the waste heat from internal combustion engines for heating the interior, for example. Axles like these are more than two meters wide.

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Honda targeting 100% BEV & FCEV sales in N America by 2040; new e:Architecture EVs coming in second half of this decade

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In China, the company has been introducing EV models while utilizing local resources; Honda will further accelerate this approach from here forward. Honda will also further pursue the utilization of local resources, which includes strengthening our collaboration with CATL for the supply of batteries. Advanced Battery Technology.

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Audi testing second-life EV batteries in factory vehicles

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Like all automobile manufacturers, Audi is obliged by law to take back energy carriers after they have been used in cars. Every lithium-ion battery represents high energy consumption and valuable resources that must be used in the best possible way.

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Industry study finds lead-acid to remain most wide-spread automotive energy storage for foreseeable future; new chemistries continue to grow

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Their low cost and ability to start the engine at cold temperatures sets them apart in conventional and basic micro-hybrid vehicles, and as auxiliary batteries in all other automotive applications, according to the report. In full-hybrid vehicles, the stored energy is also used for a certain range of electric driving.

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Study concludes that sugar cane-based biorefineries producing ethanol and electricity could power a global auto fleet of hybrids and EVs using only 4% of available cropland

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Number of cars (world and US), amount of gasoline consumed, amount of ethanol equivalent required for a neat ethanol fleet, ethanol and electricity to power hybrid fleet, and sugar cane area for hybrid fleet. l/100km), which corresponds to the efficiency of a commercially available automobile assuming 19.55 Click to enlarge.

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12th Five-Year Plan for Chinas auto industry to make new-energy vehicles priority

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China is targeting annual new-energy automobile sales of 1 million units by 2015, according to the China Association for Automobile Manufacturers. Under the plan, China will update the new-energy vehicle sector by focusing on integrating the two major technologies of electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles.