The efficiency
of the global car park is expected to improve by 2 to 3 percent per year during the Outlook period due to tightening regulations and government targets.
Powerful impetus from other sectors is enough to keep oil demand on a rising trajectory to 105 mb / d by 2040: oil use to produce petrochemicals is the largest source of growth, closely followed by rising consumption for trucks (fuel - efficiency policies cover 80 %
of global car sales today, but only 50 % of global truck sales), for aviation and for shipping.
With the unveiling of India's $ 2,500 Nano car, and my post last night looking ahead to the near - certain prospect
of a global car population of 1 billion or more within little more than a decade, Prof. Ausubel sent me links to a couple of papers he co-authored awhile back envisioning green mobility on a global scale.
While this is Detroit's big show, the 2015 North American International Auto Show made plenty
of global car news as well.
And, there's plenty
of global car news to make their trip worthwhile.
Nissan is one
of the global car manufacturers who seemed to have gotten everything right in India, yet are unable to generate volumes.
Not really, if you slash to the core
of the global car business.
Honda is clear that it wants two - thirds
of its global car sales to be electrified by 2030, and like several other manufacturers, is pursuing development of fuel - cell and plug - in hybrids furiously.
But no company becomes one of the world's largest automakers by ignoring the middle, much less the bottom
of the global car market.
The most influential car show in the US attracted the great and the good
of the global car industry to Motor City and the big brands performed their usual scrabble for the limelight.
Chung Jeon, vice president of Samsung SDI Co. Ltd., cites a recent Deutsche Bank study forecasting demand for conventional hybrids, plug - in hybrids and extended - range EVs to grow to 17.3 million units — 20 %
of global car sales — in 2020, when Europe's carbon - dioxide emissions target falls to 95 g / km from 140 g / km today.
According to a September McKinsey report, China will contribute over half
of global car sales growth through 2022, while the growth in the luxury car category is expected to outpace the rest of the market.
It accounts for nearly a third
of global car sales annually.
Not exact matches
Nothing speaks to this more than the fact that Tesla has the highest customer satisfaction levels and the highest percentage
of customers who say that their next
car will be a Tesla in the entire
global auto industry.
Since 2015, the World Bank, via Anita Marangoly George, former senior director
of Global Practice on Energy and Extractive Industries, has pushed to eliminate «a huge amount
of greenhouse gas, equivalent to the emissions
of 77 million
cars,» by 2030.
«There are two ways to connect a
car: There's the original telemetry readings, but the new phase, now that we have 4G is infotainment devices, and the vehicle as a hotspot,» says Larry Zibrik, vice-president
of Market Development at Sierra Wireless, a Vancouver - based company that's become a
global leader in the modules that allow machines to communicate over cellular networks.
After investigating certain
car models, South Korean safety officials asked a United Nations body in charge
of global transport regulations to look at developing new standards for glass.
Much rests on that model: trillions in auto sales, a massive
global workforce, vast assets in the form
of factories, an enormous network
of marketers and dealerships, billions in yearly advertising, a legacy automotive media, and above all, the financing that makes buying and leasing individual
cars and trucks possible.
Russ Corsi, who worked nearly 32 years for Pittsburgh - based PPG, a
global supplier
of auto glass, says larger sunroofs are also more prone to weakening over time as the pane absorbs impacts from bumps in the road, twists and turns
of the
car's frame, and «thermal shock» — the expanding and contracting from sudden temperature changes.
Dozens
of billboards line the highway, pushing not party slogans but modern - day dreams to Russia's 143 million people: chic
global fashion brands, European luxury
cars, and much more.
Ward's Automotive Group, which tracks
global vehicle production data, forecasts that by 2020, one in four
cars produced in North America will roll out
of plants in Mexico.
«There was a time when success was measured by the title you held at work, the size
of your home, or the make
of your
car,» explains Sheryl Connelly,
global consumer trends expert.
Social responsibility is central to the operations
of these companies — they know it's smart business to consider
global issues and the broader community, whether it is through offering discounted loans for electric
cars (Vancity) or helping to set up organic cotton seed banks in India (Zara).
Brown accused Radu Raduta, a former Google mechanical engineer, and Sameer Kshirsagar, the former
global supply manager for self - driving
cars,
of downloading other confidential material before joining Levandowski at Otto.
Bakken is a co-author
of a
global forecast on energy that predicts almost all new sales
of cars across Europe to be electric or hybrid within 20 years.
However, growth in the classic
car market is slowing, in part due to fears
of a potential interest rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve and a downturn in
global liquidity.
According to the terms
of the partnership, Lego manufactured Shell - branded gas stations and racing
cars in exchange for the oil giant making those products available through its
global network.
In fact, Morgan Stanley predicts that driverless
cars will save the U.S. $ 1.3 trillion a year by 2035 to 2050, for a
global annual saving
of $ 5.6 trillion.
«We believe the
global addressable market for
car sharing is enormous and in the early stages
of development,» the company noted in its filing to the SEC.
Volvo, which is owned by China's Greely Holdings, said in October that it's building an all - electric
car by 2019 and that it expects electric
cars to make up 10 %
of its
global sales by 2020.
Capital raise after capital raise obviously signals an intense cash burn rate, but if Tesla is going to change the world and push electric
cars to a point where they constitute more than 1 %
of global auto sales, chilling out on the spending and letting the balance sheet take a breather doesn't make much sense.
Along with these kinds
of changes, and the growing popularity
of autonomous driving, the consistent design
of services and experiences from within the
car and beyond will become much more important to
car manufacturers — to a point where it will drive brand identity, said Nils Uellendahl, the Shanghai - based design director
of BMW Group's (bmwyy)
global creative consultancy Designworks.
Taking America out
of the running in the
global race to clean up our
cars can only lead to the next wave
of bankruptcies and bailouts.
Some
of his favorite stories looked at facial bias, the philosophy
of Peter Thiel, Chinese ghost cities, self - driving
car ethics, the average family on earth, Wikipedia hoax - hunters, income inequality, bleak futurism, cooking with MSG,
global communication patterns, Somali pirates, the crucifixion
of Tony Stark, and the worst hotel in New York.
Among the many events currently taking place as part
of Social Media Week, Tumblr founder David Karp sat down Wednesday with John Bell,
Global Manager
of Social@Ogilvy, to chat about all things Karp — including his dog Clark, his affinity for
car commercials, and best
of all, his favorite Tumblr.
Airbus believes the
global demand for the «flying
cars» will run in to millions
of vehicles and that demand will help reduce development costs.
But the livestock sector is responsible for about 14.5 percent
of global greenhouse gas emissions, through cows producing methane and production processes - comparable to all the direct emissions from
cars, planes, ships and other transport.
Global WiFi coverage, say 54 %
of Americans, followed by self - driving
cars being widely available and used.
«After years
of claiming the OPEL business was critical to the company's
global platform strategy in small
cars and diesel engines (while suffering billions on losses), the company surprised the market with its decision to completely exit,» wrote Jonas.
Driverless
cars are capable
of navigating through sensors, artificial intelligence, and
global positioning systems.
One billion
global cars multiplied by a $ 6,000 annual cost
of ownership results in a $ 6 trillion market for annual
car ownership costs.
This would have been more okay if the
global economy hadn't suddenly crashed, hitting the automotive industry the absolute hardest and sucking dry any flow
of investments into
car companies, especially new and unproven ones.
«There's a lot
of companies in Ontario, and indeed in other parts
of Canada, who are wonderful at technology and can develop the software, the sensors, the security systems that these
cars will need and they will be able to compete on a huge multi-billion-dollar
global market.»
Mike Bell, CEO, Silver Spring Networks Robert Gaudette, Senior Vice President, Business Solutions, NRG Gary Hallgren, President, Arity; Connected
Car, Allstate Jim McCarthy,
Global Head
of Innovation and Strategy, Visa Ahmad Wani, CEO, 1Concern Moderator: Barb Darrow, Fortune
The partnership heralds a possible duopoly in the market
of car sharing, and the impact could have
global consequences.
Mining is big business in Canada — and the metals and minerals we're producing are essential to increase the
global supply
of solar panels, wind turbines, smart grids, LED light bulbs and electric
cars.
In the four weeks that it began shipping
cars with an AT&T 4G LTE radio embedded inside, 98 percent
of its customers have opted to try out the free trial, which lasts for three months or 3 GB, whichever comes first, according to Mary Chan, president
of GM's
global connected consumer business.
1) China's emergence as a dominant player in the low - carbon market, 2)
global oil majors» shift to renewable energy, 3) big corporate brands moving to 100 % renewable power, 4) the rise
of electric vehicles and expiration dates for gas - fuelled
cars, and 5) energy getting smarter through digitization.
While Uber, the
global leader in on - demand transportation, relies on thousands
of independent drivers, Uber's business platform enables the transition to self - driving
cars, one
of the company's stated strategic priorities.
That includes more than 7 million GM
cars, Vijay Iyer, director
of communications for GM
Global Connected Customer Experience and Urban Mobility, told CNBC.