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Carmakers’ Lifetime Emissions 50% Higher Than Reported

October 2, 2022 admin automakers, clean transport, research, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: Transport & Environment (T&E)| Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 19:30:40 +0000

Car manufacturers are misleading investors by significantly underestimating the total distance travelled and fuel consumption of cars, as mandatory Scope 3 emissions reporting represent a ‘ticking carbon bomb’ for asset managers. Carmakers’ global emissions are on average 50% higher than what they report with Hyundai-Kia and BMW under-reporting emissions by as much as 115% and 80% respectively, […]

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Like An Angel Is Pushing You From Behind

January 12, 2020 admin Audi, automakers, autonomous vehicles, batteries, big auto, BMW, cars, China, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, co2 emissions, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, Europe, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev sales, GERMANY, green economy, investment, legacy automakers, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, netherlands, Norway, porsche, smartphone apps, tesla, US, vw

Credit to Author: Alex Voigt| Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 19:43:53 +0000

As a CEO of a large global automaker, you have a huge problem of existential dimensions. If you don’t solve it, it’s not just your job that’s lost, but you will be remembered as the person who is responsible for a century-long proud legacy ending

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Ugh — Germany’s Automakers Slow To Respond To Tesla Challenge

September 14, 2019 admin Audi, auto industry, automakers, autonomous vehicles, BMW, cars, China, clean transport, consumer technology, daimler, diesel emissions scandal, electric cars, Electric vehicles, electrify america, ev charging, ev sales, GERMANY, green economy, investment, Manufacturing, mercedes, tesla, tesla model 3, tesla model s, tesla model x, Volkswagen, volkswagen group

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 03:47:02 +0000

After growing fat on expanding sales and record profits, the world’s automakers are now facing lean times. The decade-long global economic expansion is running out of gas, and the industry-changing trend of electrification, which automakers happily ignored when the profits were rolling in, now looms as an existential threat

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Trump’s So-Called “Justice Department” Drops Anti-Trust Bomb On Car Companies

September 9, 2019 admin antitrust, auto industry, automakers, BMW, carb, clean air act, clean transport, climate change, daimler, Donald Trump, dorian, Electric vehicles, EPA, ford, Fossil Fuels, fuel economy, gm, honda, mercedes, policy & politics, Volkswagen

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2019 21:00:04 +0000

The US government has put car companies on notice that if they dare oppose the president’s plan to roll back fuel economy standards, they will be accused of antitrust violations.