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

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Hyundai, Honda and—to a certain extent—Nissan and Suzuki, generally create positive Sustainable Value as well. The ranking of the 17 manufacturers based on the Sustainable Value Margin. Click to enlarge. In other words, the authors note, these companies use these resources more efficiently than their industry peers.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

Geo renamed the Nova as the Geo Prizm and added other models jointly produced with Isuzu and Suzuki in North America and Japan, but separated them from its “American” cars. They’ll never be marketed like refrigerators or water heaters. Story by Steve Schaefer; photos from manufacturers or Clean Fleet Report archives.

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Japanese carmakers still ‘most sustainable’

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However, while issues such as fleet consumption and CO2 emissions have been firmly put on the public agenda, the equally considerable environmental impact of the production phase of car manufacturing has as yet been largely ignored. It is the first value-based method for assessing corporate sustainability performance.

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