Automotive giants talk up green plans
Car makers Ford, GM and Daimler have unveiled new green models and promise plenty more to come
The race to dominate the burgeoning market for environmentally friendly vehicles stepped up a notch this week as Ford, General Motors and Daimler all unveiled new green strategies.
Speaking at the LA Auto Show, Ford president and CEO Alan Mulally announced a major new blueprint for sustainability that will commit the company to rolling out a raft of green technologies “that will provide customers more fuel-efficient vehicles that emit fewer greenhouse gases without compromising their expectations for safety, interior room or performance”.
The company said that in the near term it will offer turbo-charged, direct-injection petrol engines in higher volumes across its lighter vehicles, which it claims will improve fuel efficiency by between 10 and 20 per cent.[...]
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