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Sunday, October 21, 2007
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Hyundai has a new vice president
Hyundai has named Allan Rushforth as the new vice president of Hyundai Motor Europe.
Rushforth, a 48-year-old Englishman, replaces Gerry Dorizas, who resigned in April of this year for personal reasons.
Rushforth has 25 years experience in the automotive industry and has previously held senior positions with Audi, Volkswagen, BMW and Land Rover. He will be responsible for all European sales and marketing.
Hyundai’s sales are down in Europe, according to the latest figures from ACEA. The Korean automaker sold 143,459 cars in the first six months of 2007 compared to 160,952 for the same period last year – a drop of 10.9 percent.
Rushforth, a 48-year-old Englishman, replaces Gerry Dorizas, who resigned in April of this year for personal reasons.
Rushforth has 25 years experience in the automotive industry and has previously held senior positions with Audi, Volkswagen, BMW and Land Rover. He will be responsible for all European sales and marketing.
Hyundai’s sales are down in Europe, according to the latest figures from ACEA. The Korean automaker sold 143,459 cars in the first six months of 2007 compared to 160,952 for the same period last year – a drop of 10.9 percent.
Eddie Griffin crashed his Ferrari Enzo
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BMW picks CO2 air conditioning
BMW has chosen CO2 as the refrigerant for its next-generation air conditioning systems.
Carmakers need a refrigerant that is less harmful to the environment. They have until 2011 to comply with EU rules that will ban the use of the current chemical, R134a, in air conditioning systems.
BMW spokesman Rudi Probst told Automotive News Europe that the carmaker has chosen a CO2-based solution because the other option was a chemical solution, “which we are not happy with technically.”
Other German automakers will announce at next week’s IAA in Frankfurt whether they have chosen CO2 as the refrigerant for their future air conditioning systems, sources at leading suppliers told ANE.
Suppliers and automakers have spent years debating whether CO2-based systems are better than those that use competing refrigerant solutions, such as R152a.
When asked for further details about its system, BMW declined comment. The automaker referred questions to the German auto industry association, the VDA, where, said BMW, all the German carmakers were “working together on the issue.”
The VDA did not return phone calls or e-mails asking for comment.
Other German automakers would not comment.
Suppliers such as Behr, Denso, Delphi, Visteon and Valeo have been waiting for automakers to decide which refrigerant they want. The choice affects a market worth more than 5 billion euros in 2006, according to analyst Frost & Sullivan.
Thomas Aney, an analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort in Frankfurt, believes automakers purposely delayed their decision on future air conditioning systems.
“It’s just the same as what we saw when there was a deadline for tire pressure monitoring,” he said. “The car companies just waited and waited until the last minute, and then they pushed the price.”
EU rules will outlaw R134a on new cars sold after 2011.
The majority of cars produced in Europe last year included air conditioning. The feature is in nearly every car sold in the premium, upper-medium and large segments.
Scientists have developed a scale called global warming potential (GWP) to rate how damaging to the earth's ozone layer a specific coolant is.
CO2 refrigerant, which is known as R744, has a GWP of 1, the lowest level. R134a has a GWP of 1,430, or 1,430 times more damaging than CO2. Unlike the CO2 emitted from cars' exhausts, the CO2 in the air conditioning systems is contained. Even if some CO2 leaks from the system, the effect on the environment is small.
R152a has an intermediate GWP level of 124.
CO2-based systems will be up to 25 percent more energy-efficient than the best of today’s R134a systems, said Nurdal Kuecuekkaya, vice president of climate systems at Visteon.
Carmakers need a refrigerant that is less harmful to the environment. They have until 2011 to comply with EU rules that will ban the use of the current chemical, R134a, in air conditioning systems.
BMW spokesman Rudi Probst told Automotive News Europe that the carmaker has chosen a CO2-based solution because the other option was a chemical solution, “which we are not happy with technically.”
Other German automakers will announce at next week’s IAA in Frankfurt whether they have chosen CO2 as the refrigerant for their future air conditioning systems, sources at leading suppliers told ANE.
Suppliers and automakers have spent years debating whether CO2-based systems are better than those that use competing refrigerant solutions, such as R152a.
When asked for further details about its system, BMW declined comment. The automaker referred questions to the German auto industry association, the VDA, where, said BMW, all the German carmakers were “working together on the issue.”
The VDA did not return phone calls or e-mails asking for comment.
Other German automakers would not comment.
Suppliers such as Behr, Denso, Delphi, Visteon and Valeo have been waiting for automakers to decide which refrigerant they want. The choice affects a market worth more than 5 billion euros in 2006, according to analyst Frost & Sullivan.
Thomas Aney, an analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort in Frankfurt, believes automakers purposely delayed their decision on future air conditioning systems.
“It’s just the same as what we saw when there was a deadline for tire pressure monitoring,” he said. “The car companies just waited and waited until the last minute, and then they pushed the price.”
EU rules will outlaw R134a on new cars sold after 2011.
The majority of cars produced in Europe last year included air conditioning. The feature is in nearly every car sold in the premium, upper-medium and large segments.
Scientists have developed a scale called global warming potential (GWP) to rate how damaging to the earth's ozone layer a specific coolant is.
CO2 refrigerant, which is known as R744, has a GWP of 1, the lowest level. R134a has a GWP of 1,430, or 1,430 times more damaging than CO2. Unlike the CO2 emitted from cars' exhausts, the CO2 in the air conditioning systems is contained. Even if some CO2 leaks from the system, the effect on the environment is small.
R152a has an intermediate GWP level of 124.
CO2-based systems will be up to 25 percent more energy-efficient than the best of today’s R134a systems, said Nurdal Kuecuekkaya, vice president of climate systems at Visteon.
Citroen C-Cactus goes back to the basics
Citroen’s ambitious C-Cactus concept for the IAA in Frankfurt combines the latest diesel-hybrid technology from PSA/Peugeot-Citroen with a basics-only vehicle. The goal: Deliver maximum fuel efficiency at a price equal to an entry level Citroen C4.
The challenge is big. Diesel engines and hybrid drivetrains each add 1,000 euros or more to the cost of a car. Automakers have cited that as a barrier to widespread use of diesel hybrids.
With the C-Cactus, Citroen engineers worked to offset that extra cost by taking the rest of the vehicle down to its basic elements.
The 420cm long four-door hatchback model does include air conditioning -- but that let engineers use windows that are fixed in place and eliminate the weight of window hardware.
Also gone is a traditional dashboard. The instruments and indicators are placed in the fixed hub of the steering wheel.
Overall, Citroen says the interior is made up of just more than 200 parts, about half the number of parts used on a conventional car of similar size.
But by reducing the number of parts, the C-Cactus weighs about 15 percent less and is easier to produce than a conventional car. Many of the concept’s parts and components are made from recyclable materials. The car’s steel doors are treated to prevent corrosion but are not painted.
The concept was created by Gilles Vidal, in the Citroen studio 2 of the PSA/Peugeot-Citroen design center in Vélizy, France.
Based on the lower-medium Citroen C4 platform and fitted with the PSA diesel-hybrid powertrain which goes on sale before 2010 in the Peugeot 308 model, the C-Cactus would deliver low CO2 emissions of 78grams per kilometer. The C-Cactus is not likely to reach production, but Citroen sources say it is a message that ecological aspects will be strategic in future product.
Ford - 57 M $ for Craiova's Daewoo Factory
Ford will sign a deal for the Craiova plant in Romania at the Frankfurt IAA on September 12.
The US automaker will pay 57 million euros for a 72.4 percent stake in the former Daewoo plant. The remaining 27.6 percent is held by a variety of employee pension schemes.
Ford wants the Craiova factory to increase its production capacity in Europe. It plans to invest 675 million euros in the plant and build up to 300,000 cars a year. The factory currently has capacity to build 200,000 cars a year.
A source familiar with the deal told Automotive News Europe that there would still be some legal details to sort out once the deal is signed. The Romanian parliament intends to pass legislation that will limit Ford's potential liability once it takes over the plant.
Finnaly after a long time .. a straight answear. Hope to see the Factory from Craiova bigger and better than before.
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