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Daimler 360 GRAD - FAKTEN zur Nachhaltigkeit 2008
Daimler Nachhaltigkeitsbericht 2008 / Environmental protection, innovation, and safety / Activities and goals
Fleet consumption
Goals Activities/status Goal
Regardless of what form the EU’s
draft legislation on reducing CO 2
emissions in new vehicles ultimately
takes, Daimler will implement
measures to further lower such
emissions for its vehicle fleet in
Europe, in order to meet the EU’s
fleet consumption objectives.
Daimler aims to be “best in class” in
terms of the CO 2 emissions of its
vehicles. Beginning in 2007, the
Group plans to introduce at least
one vehicle per year in each of the
large-volume series (S-, C -, E-, A-
/B- and M-Class and smart) with
CO 2 emissions significantly lower
than those of the respective
predecessor model from 2006.
Reductions will total at least
8 percent for the small-car segment
(smart, A-/ B -Class) and at least
15 percent for the middle and
upper-range segments.
Our efforts to reduce fuel consumption will be further intensified.
Here, downsizing and turbocharging will play an important role
with regard to the engine. The principal measures include:
� rollout of direct gasoline injection in our four-cylinder
gasoline engines as of 2010 (consumption reduction
potential approx. 10 percent) – this technology has already
been available in the CLS 350 since 2006 and the E 350 CGI
since 2007 and will be available in the C350 CGI by the end
of 2008.
� introduction of start-stop systems, initially in the smart
(2007), followed by the A-/B-Class (consumption reduction
potential approxiamately 8 percent);
� four-cylinder gasoline and diesel engines with optimized
consumption as of 2008/2009 (savings potential 5 –
10 percent);
� development of the so-called DIESOTTO concept
(consumption reduction potential of 15 – 20 percent) – 1st
stage by 2012;
� improvement of energy management (5 –10 percent)
Compared with the reference year 1995, the average fuel
consumption of Mercedes vehicles has been reduced by
21.3 percent as a result of various measures; this reduction rate
is almost 50 percent higher than the ACEA average.
We are employing technical measures to improve the efficiency of
the drive train – e.g. new combustion processes. The fuel
consumption of the gasoline engine with stratified direct
injection, also available in the E-Class since 2007, is around
10 percent lower. The high injection pressure and newly
developed seven-hole injectors of the latest-generation CDI
engine, introduced in the new-generation smart fortwo in 2007,
make for a 13-percent reduction in fuel consumption. With the
launch of BlueEFFICIENCY vehicles (starting with the C-Class in
2008) we will reach, and in some cases clearly surpass, our
reduction targets for the medium and upper-range segments. The
C 200 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY launched in April 2008 boasts a CO 2
emission level 17 percent lower than that of the predecessor
model, and the CO 2 emissions of the C 180 KOMPRESSOR
BlueEFFICIENCY (also launched in April 2008) have been reduced
by 15 percent.
attainment
Further
development of
the current
consumption
goals for
Europe
Goal still
applies
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