Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The KPMG research finds that the external environmental costs of 11 key industry sectors jumped 50% from US$566 to US$846 billion in 8 years (2002 to 2010), averaging a doubling of these costs every 14 years. Total environmental cost 2010 vs growth in environmental cost since 2002 vs environmental intensity improvement.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Volkswagen only managed to create significantly positive Sustainable Value in 2001, 2002 and 2007. Economic crisis, energy crisis, climate crisis and recent global developments have affected the automobile industry like few other sectors. Click to enlarge. GM achieved a sustainable value of -€9.87 billion from 1999 to 2007.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

We should have built more Nuclear power plants and created a nuclear waste recycling program. I had surmised this in my 2002 car design thesis [link] even before anyone was talking about plug in series hybrids. needs to have an indigenous automobile industry, and not merely "transplants". Never again.

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