As the concerns over the limits of fuel fuels and their impacts on climate change are rising, the effort to find alternative sources of fuel is accelerating worldwide. The development of automobiles running on alternative sources of fuel is especially a huge issue in the auto industry in addition to the issues of increasing fuel-efficiency and developing low-emission technology. HMC is making many efforts in developing such cars, including hybrid-electric cars, hydrogen-fuel-cell cars, bio-fuel cars, and so forth.
For the last four decades, HMC has been deeply engaged in the areas of developing low-emission engines, new filter systems, new catalyst systems, and diesel-PM filter systems in order to lessen the damages to the urban atmospheric environment. since 2006, HMC has been marketing automobiles that meet the EURO-4 criteria, the strictest regulations on automobile emission worldwide.
With the long-term aim to achieve a 95% weight-based recycling rate for the End of Life Vehicle (ELV) by 2015, HMC has been striving to build necessary infrastructure and to develop related recycling technologies.
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