Bosch is to be fully climate-neutral as early as next year. Its over 400 locations worldwide, and their engineering, manufacturing, and administrative facilities, will no longer leave a carbon footprint. Bosch states it will be the first major industrial enterprise to achieve this ambitious goal in little over a year. Bosch will invest a billion euros in the energy efficiency of its plants and buildings over the next ten years.
The shareholders of Daimler AG voted to reorganize the Daimler Group by a large majority at the latest Annual Meeting in Berlin. This clears the way for the Group to place its car and van business as well as its truck and bus business into two legally independent entities by way of a spin-off. The project is called 'Project future' and will come into affect in November 2019.
Monthly the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), reports about the registrations in Europe of commercial vehicles. Over the last month overall registrations went up with 7,8% and in the first four months of 2019 with 5.8%. This involves all commercial vehicles including vans, trucks and buses, although the segment buses and coaches noted a decline in registration.
En 2011, durante la Feria de Hannover, se acuñó el término «industria 4.0» para describir la creación de «fábricas inteligentes». Otros como Klaus Martin Schwab, economista alemán y fundador del Foro Económico Mundial, se refieren ya a la Cuarta Revolución Industrial como el momento en el que, sistemas de fabricación virtuales y físicos, cooperan entre sí de una manera flexible en todo el planeta y por supuesto en todos los sectores de la economía.
Transport Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) has awarded Hankook Tyre a contract to supply tyres for Barcelona's entire bus fleet of more than 4,000 buses. The state-of-the-art "SmartCity AU04+" tyre series from Hankook are to be supplied by Hankook's Spanish representative Grupo Soledad.