Manufacturing
Mercedes Benz SA reducing carbon footprint by 15%
Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA) has reduced its carbon footprint by 15%, well ahead of the global group target. This has been achieved in the short space of three years, since 2006. The environmental implications of the savings in kilowatts of gas and electricity, translates to a reduction of 12 703 […]
Credit crunch may delay Joule production plans
It seems that the global financial crisis will delay the mass production of the Optimal Energy Joule, on which GreenCars recently reported. The company is in need of some €100m (some R1.3bn) in investment to start the building of an assembly plant.
Optimal Energy CEO Kobus Meiring told Reuters: “It is unfortunate that at the same […]
South African Gordon Murray’s T25 City Car (2010)
Most of us motoring buffs know about local boy Gordon Murray making it big in F1 design a few years back. Friend Gordon then left the racing scene to focus on something more .., well … affordable. After starting Gordon Murray Design (GMD) in Surrey, England, his team of 29 set out to revolutionise the […]
World’s biggest rooftop solar station to be built by GM
The General’s assembly plant in Zargosa, Spain (which produces over 480 000 vehicles per year) will soon be sporting a massive 10MW solar power station on its roof similar to the system pictured above.
GM will not own the solar station, however. It will be installed and run by US firm Clairvoyant Energy and France’s Veolia […]
