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The automotive industry has made a leap forward in the world in recent years, with particularly strong growth in the US and China analyst at IHS Automotive expects the global market to 88 12 million units for 2016 Car sales in the north American markets were running at very high rates According to Plunkett research estimates, sales of American cars and light trucks reached a record of 17 55 million units for 2016 , according to Autodata This was a slight increase of more than 17 47 million units sold in 2015 and an increase of more than 16 45 million units sold in 2014. Sales in Mexico were expected to grow by nearly 18 in 2016, 1 55 million units, while the volume of domestic sales to grow slightly to 1 96 million, analysts Scotiabank the biggest trend of rising sales has AUTOMOBILEEXHIBITS was in China while estimates of its annual unit sales vary widely, China has clearly become units sold in 2015, the world's largest auto market with about 21 million However, China's sales are highly prone to change because of the e conomic growth, the availability of credit and regulatory environment in 2015-16, the growth rate of China's economy has slowed, and sales of discretionary items are falling, particularly China Government of luxury items has much control over the market, as at any time, it can increase sales by encouraging new auto loans.
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The automotive industry has made a leap forward in the world in recent years, with particularly strong growth in the U S and China analyst at IHS Automotive forecast the global market to 88 units from 12 million for 2016.
Car sales in the North American markets were running at very high rates According to Plunkett Research estimates, sales of cars in the United States and light trucks reached a record of 17 55 million units 2016, according to Autodata This was a slight increase of more than 17 47 million units sold in 2015 and an increase of more than 16 45 million units sold in 2014. Sales in Mexico were expected to grow by almost 18 in 2016 , 1 55 million units, while the volume of domestic sales to grow slightly to 1 96 million, analysts Scotiabank.
The largest upward trend in auto sales has been in China While estimates of its annual unit sales vary significantly, China has become much more automotive market in the world with about 21 million units sold in 2015. However sales of China are highly subject to change due to economic growth, the availability of credit and the regulatory environment in 2015-16, the growth rate of China's economy has slowed, and sales of discretionary items are falling, especially luxury items from China's government has much control over the market at any time, it can increase sales by encouraging new auto loans, sales or decrease by adding new fees registration or restricting traffic in major cities to reduce congestion and pollution.
One of the biggest winners by far in the highly competitive automotive market today was Korea, where Hyundai and its Kia brand, benefited soaring global sales Consumers are attracted by their reasonable prices, excellent guarantees and world-class manufacturing quality.
There were about 260 million cars and light trucks in service in the United States, from 2016 Around the world, there were about 1 15 billion cars and light trucks on the road in early 2016, a number which has grown from about 40 to 50 million per year, as new vehicles are sold and part of the world fleet is scrapped.
Most major automakers aggressively push their crossovers, which are an excellent compromise that offers great compartments of passenger and cargo, good visibility and reasonably good gas mileage Crossovers are essentially replaced sedans and pickups like the new family car for the first eight months of 2016, sales of light trucks, including pickups, SUVs and crossovers, vans rose 2 5 plus 2015 pickups were the best sellers by far.
At the same time, manufacturers are forced to continue to invest in small, high-performance vehicles due to US government mandates that they comply with rules high miles per gallon on average Chrysler relies on its relationships with Fiat for new fuel efficient models of smaller Honda, Volkswagen, Toyota, Hyundai, Nissan and Peugeot have all invested in new small advanced cars all major luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, Lexus and Audi have relatively low car on the market and will gradually introduce a wide range of fuel efficient models BMW introduced its cars iSeries high performance in 2013, including a three-cylinder engine that is part of a new plug-in hybrid.
Engineers are pushing the technological changes in their big cars and light trucks to improve their energy efficiency is an excellent example the launch of Ford F150 pick-up full-size trucks that rely on the use of aluminum body panels and combinations transmission of advanced engine to significantly reduce weight and improve fuel truck that sells in large numbers in the United States as the Chevrolet Silverado and Chrysler Ram pickup recent declines in gasoline prices have spurred this trend.
GM strongly betting on the Chevrolet Cruze, a small sedan capable of 36 miles per gallon mpg on the highway and full of convenience features that consumers appreciate the redesigned Ford Fusion received rave reviews, and it is either a hybrid model or standard engine version that gets 31 mpg on the highway.
A frugal consumer income and buyers who prefer greener goods has strong cumulative sales in the long term for the Prius hybrid petrol-electric Toyota The company also made investments that allow it to make hybrid versions several of its popular models, including the Camry and hybrid Lexus models more are now available from a variety of manufacturers, and the technology has steadily improved However, hybrids are still a very small fraction of the overall auto market and truck because of their relatively high initial costs also hybrid sales were softer at this time of extremely low gas prices.
Nissan offers competition in the sector of electric vehicles with its all-electric model called sheet However, high prices and limited battery range will cause many consumers to stay away from electric cars in response to this challenge, GM has recently introduced Chevy electric Bolt, with an exceptionally long range and, since its introduction, Tesla, the US luxury maker, fully electric cars, offered long-range vehicles Tesla current models are expensive, but they offer the opportunity to drive a long distance because of their unique battery strategy Meanwhile, Tesla SILL soon launch a new model much more affordable, and it has already launched an SUV automobile industry looks forward to the possible development of long-range batteries advanced at a much lower cost, which may take until 2020 or later Plusi ower the world's best research organizations regularly work on this challenge.
Clean diesel engines for passenger cars suffered a massive setback in September 2015 when Volkswagen was accused of designing some of its small car diesel engines so that they get better results in emission tests they do do during the actual conduct road This is not only a huge scandal and a huge potential financial liability for VW approximately 11 million cars were sold worldwide which may optionally contain such engines, of which about 2 million Audis, but also potentially a major setback, the negative consumer perception, for all diesel manufacturers automakers including BMW, Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz manufactures and sells diesel cars, especially in Europe.
Meanwhile, the use of ethanol as a gasoline additive in America has experienced strong growth in the long term, whether or not in an environmental or economic sense, thanks to the requirements set by Congress, however, Congress recently lowered its financial subsidies to ethanol.
The growing affluence of consumers in China created both huge opportunities and major issues China has become the largest user of the world biggest overall importers of energy and one of the world petroleum products partly to fuel its fleet booming cars and trucks streets and roads are clogged with vehicles, since the traffic and smog are a nightmare automakers abroad have raced to build partnerships and plants China.
India has also experienced strong growth in its car manufacturing operations in recent years, and its auto exports are increasingly based in India Tata, now owns the prestigious Jaguar and Land Rover brands.
Not to be overlooked are the major changes taking place in automobile manufacturing plants flexible plants reduced hours and lower costs per car, while offering a much wider range of choices for customization to consumers the wide use of robotics, advanced software factory and lean inventory methods have completely revamped factory modern automobile today, more than ever, automakers and their suppliers are cooperating in the design and production of new cars in ways that are revolutionizing the entire process bankruptcies at GM and Chrysler in 2009 has allowed these companies to the debt, cut employees to renegotiate contracts to significantly reduce operating costs.
Cheap cars made in China are now on the market in many emerging countries The question is whether China exports cars and trucks, but whether consumers in advanced markets like America are convinced they offer safety and reliability Meanwhile, US automakers have made intense demands on their component suppliers for lower prices of these suppliers are, in turn, looking to low-cost production in China, Mexico and elsewhere.
The thought of the next billion users car owners is either the most intriguing vision or the more terrifying for the near future, depending on how you look at future global demand for cars can well exceed current levels, creating huge opportunities business.
However, the combination of car-sharing strategies such as Zipcar, driving sharing systems like Uber and autonomous vehicles that can drive themselves will have very profound effects on the automotive manufacture, use, sale and models at least property in dense urban environments, the result is very likely to be a large proportion of individuals who choose to use shared cars rather than cars owned by the user.
Surveys show that many young people have little interest in owning a car of their own, which is very different from the attitude that took place a generation earlier car sharing is a growing trend that the car rental giant Notice Zipcar has acquired a pioneer in this field even large automakers, including BMW with its DriveNow program, start their own car-sharing systems, hoping to develop strategies that are well in tune with the changing consumer trends.
Vehicle safety has made spectacular progress in recent years, mainly by adopting technologies such as backup cameras, anti-skid brakes and advanced avoidance systems collisions Now almost all major automakers are working intensively on technologies Car that will essentially drive themselves Many vehicles now have advanced features in this regard.
Automotive and heavy truck industries rapidly forge ahead with outstanding technology for self-driving autonomous vehicles The step is more vehicles that communicate with each other, while using advanced technologies to stay safe in the hallways, control the speed and apply an emergency braking more difficult steps involve avoiding other vehicles and pedestrians and to be able to safely negotiate difficult driving conditions of all types.
Cars have become high-power computers on wheels, many automotive systems are now controlled by chips and software at the same time, automakers are finding innovative ways to use the latest wireless technologies and smartphone, including applications to improve the entertainment, information and motor vehicle communications capabilities infotainment became a dominant theme.
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BP report analysts that consumption of non-hydro renewable energy has increased 15-fold 2 in the world in 2015 respectable the last year for which data are available increased North American consumption by a power consumption August 6 world significant increased 1 0 during the 2015 north American hydro consumption decreased 2 3 after 3 February decline continued growth of the United States does not mean that renewable energy represents a large amount of the world's energy instead, non-hydroelectric renewable energy as percent of global electricity generation accounted for around 6 7 2015, up 6 0 2014 coal, natural gas and nuclear energy are the main sources of production electricity in most parts of the world electricity generation in the United States from source s renewable 13 4 of the total electric power in 2015, as against 13 2 2014 and only about 7 6 1 970 in this case comprises renewable conventional hydraulic and geothermal and solar, wind and biomass, in 1970 this production was almost entirely on hydroelectric sources of wind energy has grown rapidly over the world's major technological advances in wind turbines including blades much more by creating high performance turbine blades suffering very little downtime and therefore more effective, as well as massive government incentives to encourage investment in wind generation, have fueled the installation of the turbine in the production of US wind energy grew dramatically, from 11,187 megawatts in 2003 to 94,652,000 in 2010.
In industrialized countries, R & D investment increased by an average of about 1 GDP gross domestic product in 1980 to 5 about 2 0 today A large number of university students worldwide are enrolled in engineering and scientific disciplines many of them dream of potential rewards if their future research efforts have been marketed worldwide research collaboration between companies and between companies and universities is booming, as is patent, it is difficult to patent authorities in the US and elsewhere to meet the demands of globalization, immigration and transnational collaboration have a dramatic effect on the research and design that almost half of the patents issued in at least America list a non-US citizen S as a major co-inventor of American universities, like the University of Texas and the University Wisconsin and universities in countries like China, Korea and Singapore, are eager to patent their inventions and reap the benefits of Commer University Research Research Top cialized earn millions of dollars each annual royalties on their patents in 2016 global Forecast R & D funding, published by the Institute for industrial research and R & D magazine, estimates of global spending on research and development to 1 947000000000000 2016 on a PPP or purchasing parity basis PPP power means the amounts are adjusted to reflect the difference in the cost of living of a nation, compared to the United States, for example.
Transportation is one of the largest industries in the world His areas ranging from taxis to trucks, planes, trains, mail services, ships, barges, warehouse and logistics services to some extent becoming Furthermore, it now includes the use of robotics and artificial intelligence in terms of self-driving cars and trucks, and can optionally include a significant level of delivery vehicles robotics robots already provide a high level of automation in ports and warehouses, while AI is widely applied to the supply chain in total, during 2016, the basic transport revenues in the US were an estimated 1058 0000000000, according to Plunkett Research estimates worldwide, these revenues were approximately 4 7000000000000 This includes air, rail, water, pipeline, mail storage segments and about 6 of the acti GDP global economic ity, key sectors of transportation add to a remarkably efficient industry, given the fact that transport is an essential service to n early all other sectors of the economy In fact, thanks to the increasing use of systems 'advanced information and strategies such as intermodal container shipment of goods in containers that are easily transferred from ship to ship a car to the truck, if necessary, without repacking, the productivity of the transport industry is excellent in recent years, globalization intense new demands on the transport sector and the FedEx supply chain, for example, offers a wide variety of transport and delivery services of parcels in around 220 countries worldwide.
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