Audi 2008 Annual Report Download - page 162

143
Management Report
128 Business and underlying
situation
128 The Group
131 Corporate steering
134 Research and development
136 Employee matters
139 Audi in society
141 Environmental aspects
147 Economic environment
150 Course of business
157 Financial performance
159 Net worth
160 Financial position
160 Report on post-balance sheet
date events
161 Risk report
165 Report on expected
developments
169 Disclaimer
Emissions trading
Climate change and energy efficiency are the key environmental issues of our time. In intro-
ducing the CO2 emissions trading scheme in 2005, the European Union assumed a pioneering
role in matters of climate protection.
Following the expiration of the first trading period (2005 to 2007), the second trading period
for the CO2 emissions trading scheme (2008 to 2012) began last year. The Ingolstadt,
Neckarsulm and Brussels manufacturing plants are participating. The emissions certificates
were applied for punctually and have already been issued.
As it stands now, thanks to the early adoption of measures to improve energy efficiency and the
targeted reduction of emissions, once again the Audi Group does not expect to incur any costs
from emissions trading in the second trading period.
Product-based environmental protection
The Audi Group has been methodically using new technologies to boost vehicle efficiency ever
since the early 1980s, thereby living up to its claim of technological leadership.
Many of its trailblazing innovations are now also being used by many other carmakers to
improve fuel efficiency and cut CO2 emissions by vehicles:
THE AUDI BRAND’S MILESTONES IN EFFICIENCY TECHNOLOGY
1982 1994
2001 2008
1989 1999 2002
2003
2006 2009
•Launch of FSI technology
•Launch of Audi S tronic
•Audi 100 achieves
impressively low C
d
of 0.30
•Launch of TDI technology
•Audi duo hybrid model
•Launch of Audi Space Frame (ASF)
•Volume-produced vehicle with
all-aluminum body: Audi A2
•Four-door, three-liter vehicle:
Audi A2 1.2 TDI
•1st win for Audi R10 with 12-cylinder
TDI engine in 24 Hours of Le Mans
•Launch of Audi valvelift system (AVS)
•Vienna-Basel efficiency run in Audi
A4 2.0 TDI production model
•Audi Mileage Marathon, USA, with
Audi TDI vehicles
•Launch of TDI clean diesel
in Audi Q7
•Launch of automatic
start/stop
Audi design – timeless and aerodynamic
Aerodynamic bodies and the lower drag they produce have a major impact on a vehicle’s fuel
consumption. Audi Group developers have factored this in by coming up with strikingly sporty
designs that also produce less drag. The Audi 100 and its drag coefficient of 0.30 caused quite
a sensation as far back as 1982.