Hybrid cars and car recycling: Step towards the clean car and the closed-loop of materials

Jean-Jacques Chanaron () and Roberto Zoboli
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Jean-Jacques Chanaron: GATE - Groupe d'analyse et de théorie économique - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENS LSH - Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, EMSI - Ecole de Management des Systèmes d'Information - EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management

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Abstract: With the surge in environmental concerns all over the world, in particular global warming and air pollution which are partly caused by automobile transportation, the issue of a clean car is today clearly on the top of the agenda. The media are disseminating the feeling that the hybrid technology is an obvious answer to such problems. They are supported also by politicians and businesses needing to advertise their environment friendly policies and strategies. In the United States, which never signed the Kyoto protocol, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are pressing President Bush to actively support a "national" technology and therefore a "national" industry for hybrids . The 2008 federal budget includes $42 million to accelerate research on advanced battery technologies for hybrids. New York mayor, Michael Bloomberg, promised that all 13 000 "yellow cabs" will be hybrid by 2012 from only 375 today ! IKEA decided all its fleet will be "hybridized" by 2010 in the United Kingdom.

Keywords: automobile; hybrid technology; innovation; strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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Published in International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management, 2007, 7 (4), pp.261-267

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