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Daimler sets up sustainability board

To manage all of the green-flavored activities going on at Daimler, the company announced today that it has created a "Sustainability Board" at the upper management levels. This new board will be responsible for coordinating all of the "sustainability measures" (in the economy, ecology and society realms) at Daimler Group. Dr. Rüdiger Grube, Board of Management member of Daimler AG responsible for Group Development and Corporate Strategy, will lead the new board. Daimler is also presenting a sustainability report called "360 Degrees" at ... Read more →

Choren industries opens BTL plant in Freiberg Xavier Navarro

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has inaugurated the "first refinery of second generation" biofuels in Freiberg. The plant, owned by Choren, which partners with car companies VW and Daimler and the ...

Daimler figures diesels could make up 20 percent of its U.S. sales Lascelles Linton

Daimler chairman Dieter Zetsche is bullish on the adoption of diesel in the United States. At the ECO:nomics conference, Zetsche told the Wall Street Journal that Daimler is very happy with its diesel ...

The ten cheapest cars in the world - #6 - Chery A-1 Xavier Navarro

Chery A-1: 5-door hatchback. China. $7,340 The A-1 looks like a competent subcompact and rumors are that it's going to be sold under the Dodge brand in places like Mexico. Nevertheless, it is Chery's ...

Zap still pursuing Daimler over Smart deal, California Supreme Court next Sam Abuelsamid

Once upon a time Zap had a dream to import the Smart ForTwo to the U.S. market. Unfortunately for Zap, that plan didn't work out and Smart's parent Daimler ultimately did a deal with Roger Penske to ...

Daimler, ADM & Bayer team up to try biodiesel from Jatropha 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We have covered already what jatropha is: a promising crop which can be cultivated on barren land that does not compete with food production and from which you can obtain oil (with a quality similar to rapeseed) to make biodiesel. A lot of research is being done on making jathropa a viable source ...

Exclusive video of DaimlerChrysler's hybrid engine 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Deutsche Welle English has a great video on YouTube called Made in Germany | Top Secret: Experimental Vehicles that includes a look at a DaimlerChrysler hybrid engine still in development. Fire your corporate spies top American automakers and just watch this video above that includes passing a key ...

Zetsche: We can't make it under 120 for 2012 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Daimler's CEO Dieter Zetsche said that the proposed CO2 emission limits for 2012 (120 g/km) are "unattainable". He also stated that politicians don't realise how difficult that limit will be to reach because the cars that will be on sale in 2012 are " actually at the end of their development cycle ...

European carmakers support Bali's Conference on climate change 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

This can be called a case of greenwashing or simply an honest declaration of good intentions. The European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA), has issued a formal declaration supporting and encouraging the UN-sponsored ministerial talks on climate change in Bali, Indonesia. The letter is ...

BMW, Daimler and Porsche win "Worst EU Lobbying Award" 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

German car manufacturers BMW, Daimler and Porsche have won quite an unsympathetic award: Worst European Lobbyists of the year, right after the German Atomic Energy Forum. These automakers' campaign was awarded "excellent" (say it in a high-irony voice) to press for "the delay and dilution" of the ...

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