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Sustainable Automotive Technologies 2010 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
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Sustainable Automotive Technologies 2010 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
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Mobility is an essential part of our lives. The ability to move
freely is central to meeting our social and economic needs. For
this reason we have embraced the car over the past century perhaps
more than any other technology or consumer pr- uct. Today there are
around 900 million vehicles on the world`s roads with another
60,000,000 new vehicles produced each year worldwide. The scale of
the auto- tive industry is significant and far reaching. For
example, it is estimated that around two thirds of world`s oil
output goes to transportation whereby road - hicles alone consume
around 40% of the world`s rubber and 25% of the world`s glass, with
the consumption of raw materials and other resources further
growing due to the rapid development of the automotive sector in
China, India, Thailand and Mexico. Transportation accounts for
around 25% of greenhouse emissions worldwide, whereby 90% of
transport related emissions come from road vehicles, predominantly
cars. Clearly, current levels of consumption and emissions are -
sustainable. This in turn suggests that mobility as we know it,
based on the tra- tional vehicle technology and existing production
and consumer practices, is - sustainable. The challenge of
developing new sustainable approaches to mobility confronts
industries and our societies in general. The concept of sustainable
mobility is m- tidimensional and the challenge of achieving it is
quite complex.
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