The automotive industry and the environment [electronic resource] : a technical, business and social future / Paul Nieuwenhuis and Peter Wells

Author	Nieuwenhuis, Paul
Title	The automotive industry and the environment [electronic resource] : a technical, business and social future / Paul Nieuwenhuis and Peter Wells
Imprint	Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press ; Cambridge, U.K. : Woodhead Pub., 2003
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Descript	xv, 255 p. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Abbreviations and glossary -- Introduction -- The structure of the automotive industry -- Markets and the demand for cars -- From manufacturers to responsible mobility providers -- Sector shift, inter-sector dynamics and futures studies -- Powertrain and fuel -- Fuel cells and the hydrogen economy -- High volume car production: Budd and Ford -- Alternatives to high volume car production -- Sustainability -- Sustainable mobility -- Practical steps towards sustainability -- Automobility 2050, the vision -- The distributed economy -- The shape of the future -- The roadmap -- Micro factory retailing -- Conclusions and implications -- index

SUBJECT

Automobiles -- Research
Automobiles -- Environmental aspects
Automobiles -- Technological innovations
Automobile industry and trade
Alternative fuel vehicles
Electronic books.