|
|
 |
|
Viewing report
|
|
|
|
The Automotive Industry and the Environment
Woodhead Publishing Ltd, July 2003, Pages: 272
Introduction
- Background
- Change and complexity-can business really afford to keep things simple?
- Identifying the problem
- Roots of the problem
- The C02 issue-agenda for change
The structure of the automotive industry
- The automotive industry: a profile
- The vehicle manufacturers
- Material and component suppliers
- Distribution and retailing w Financial performance, structure and the future
- The direction of the industry: the case of Ford
- Conclusions
Markets and the demand for cars
- Introduction
- The structure of production and markets
- Fragmentation
- Brands and the market for alternative technology vehicles
- Environment, technology and the creation of new market segments: the example ofTH!NK @bout London project
- Conclusions
From manufacturers to responsible mobility providers
- Background
- The EU ELV Directive-forcing manufacturers to take a whole-life view
- Selling the package: a wider view of costs
- The car industry responds to the new agenda
- Corporate social and environmental responsibility
- Conclusion
Sector shift, inter-sector dynamics and futures
- Introduction: the question of sector shift
- Futures and multi-discipline thinking
- Sustainability and multi-discipline thinking
- Management science, business strategy and the cult of the guru
- The automotive industry: an illustration w Micro factory retailing: a futures studies vision of the automotive industry
- Conclusions
Powertrain and fuel
- How petrol and diesel came to rule the world
- The gaseous alternative Liquefied petroleum gas vs. compressed natural gas
- Dimethylether (DME) and biodiesel: diesel's future?
- Whatever happened to the electric car?
- The Air Car-a green car at last?
Fuel cells and the hydrogen economy
- The car industry goes for the hard cell
- The role of Ballard
- Fuelling the cell
- AUTOnomy-reinventing the chassis to fit the cell
- A future for the cell?
High volume car production: Budd and Ford
- Introduction and background
- History
- Budd and Ford
- ZIS: Budd goes East
- Monocoque construction
- Buddhism fraying at the edges
- Steel fights back
Alternatives to high volume car production
- Introduction
- Alternative approaches to car production
- Sports cars: niche vs mainstream vehicle manufacturers
- Examples of low volume car production
- Conclusions
Sustainability
- The sustainability concept
- An ethical and spiritual dimension
- Nature and the closed-loop economy
Sustainable mobility
- Making cars sustainable: a blueprint
- Product durability and scrappage incentives
- New product niches
- Closed-loop recycling
Practical steps towards sustainability
- Introduction
- Alternative approaches to evaluating the environmental burden of cars
- Official and unofficial vehicle emissions and fuel economy guides
- The Volvo environmental product declaration (EPD)
- Vehicvle assembly plant rating systems
- Car environmental rating systems
- Conclusion
Automobility 2050-the vision
- Introduction
- A sustainable world: the context for automobility 2050
- Automobility 2050: making cars
- Automobility 2050: the car itself
- Automobility 2050: cars is use
- Conclusions: a vision for the future
The distributed economy
- Introduction
- Centralization, economies of scale and globalization
- The distributed economy: an outline of basic ideas
- The significance of scale and production
- Conclusion
The shape of the future
- Introduction
- Alternative 1: the traditional assembly plant
- Alternative 2: the modular assembly plant
- Alternative 3: the global production network
- Alternative 4: the eco-park
- Alternative 5: decentralized manufacturing
- Different shapes to the automotive industry
- Conclusions
The roadmap
- Roadmaps
- The sustainable automobility roadmap: basic principles
- The Bellagio Principles-a known agenda
- The mechanics of change
- Strategic niche management (SNM)
- Conclusions
Micro factory retailing
- Introduction
- Micro factory retailing: a delineation of the basic idea
- Barriers and opportunities for micro factory retailing
- Case study: the Air Car
- Conclusions
Conclusion and implications
- Summary Our futureThe UK-a special case?
- Conclusions
- Our future
- The UK-a special case?
- Conclusions
Customers who bought this item also bought
Fuel Economy and Regulations to Drive Hybrid Car Market
Energy and Climate Change: Creating a Sustainable Future
Introduction to the Romanian Passenger Car Market
Local Environmental Sustainability
Fuel Cell Vehicles — Revolutionizing Automotive Industry
Sustainable Textiles: Life Cycle and Environmental Impact
Introduction to Kazakhstani Passenger Car Market
Introduction to the Vietnamese Passenger Car Market
Car / Automotive Market in Lithuania to 2015
Car / Automotive Market in Ukraine to 2015
Car / Automotive Market in Croatia to 2015
Car / Automotive Market in Estonia to 2015
|
|
|
|
