Sustainable Automotive Technologies 2010

The book represents the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sustainability in Automotive Engineering. ICSAT2010 is the state-of-the-art conference in the field of new technologies for transportation. The book summarizes all important trends in sustainability of automotive development today with a special focus on materials, propulsion technologies as well as manufacturing issues. It provides a brief selection of papers and key-note speakers of the conference. Papers from the US, Australia, Europe and Asia are showing the lighthouse character of the conference, in a field which gains more and more importance as far as emissions and the lack of fossil fuels in the future are concerned. The book provides a very good overview of F&D activities at OEM’s as well as in leading universities and laboratories; the special focus is on new ideas for emissionless propulsions.