According to a study by Automotive News, BMW is ahead of schedule to encounter reach its 2015 target in emission levels. Ranking 11th in a listing of automakers ranked past CO2 emissions, BMW has to reduce emissions by only eight percent to reach its 2015 target of 139g/km from 151g/km in 2009.

Toyota is the all-time placed among automakers to achieve its 2015 target, according to the Brussels-based greenish send campaigners Ship & Surroundings, which analyzed official European union data.

In 2009, BMW Group achieved 10.2 per cent reduction in emission levels. BMW Group'south average vehicle emissions in 2008 was 154g/km, downward x.2 per cent from 172g/km in 2007.

bmw efficient dynamics 2010 655x482 BMW Grouping'southward success in reducing CO2 is cheers to its EfficientDynamics program which incorporates a broad variety of fuel-saving and emissions-reducing measures beyond the whole vehicle range equally standard. EfficientDynamics technology includes Auto Start-Stop, Restriction Energy Regeneration and Active Aerodynamics, among a wide range of other features.

To reduce the amount of CO2 emissions, the European union set automakers individual CO2 reduction targets equally part of a goal to cut boilerplate new-motorcar emissions in Europe overall to 130g/km by 2015 from 160g/km in 2006 The EU threatens heavy fines for companies that fail to reach their targets.

The 130g/km figure is equivalent to fuel consumption of about 5.vi liters of gasoline or 5.0 liters of diesel fuel fuel per 100 km.

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[Source: AutoNews ]