Daimler-Benz Company

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While batteries and fuel cells used to be the subject of a chapter in electrochemical books, the decision of the Daimler-Benz company in 1997 to develop fuel cells for the electric drive in their cars brought the fuel cell into clear focus the battery suddenly took second place to environmentally friendly cars. The fuel cell directly converts the energy of chemical reactions to electricity and without moving parts, in contrast to the two-stage method of our present way of obtaining electricity (heat to mechanical work and mechanical work to a generator). Batteries store electricity produced elsewhere, and make it instantly available when a circuit is closed. They have their own market independently of whether they will be used in any automotive applications. 

Nike, Lego, Mattel, and Sony are some of the companies that have already phased-out PVC plastic. Ford, Peugeot, Daimler Benz, Opel, Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Toyota are all adopting PVC restrictions. These initiatives are driven by the EU Directive on End-of-Life Vehicles which requires automakers to meet reuse/recovery target of 85% of scrap vehicles by weight byJanuary 2006. 

Even these ideas (which have been in the open literature since 1993) did not tempt U.S. automotive makers to switch to fuel cells as the power source for electric cars. The lead was finally taken by Daimler-Benz, in Germany, the first manufacturers of passenger automobiles with internal combustion engines in the world. In 1996 this company demonstrated fuel cell-driven passenger cars with methanol as the originating liquid to be taken on board and re-formed to hydrogen. This fuel is then used in fuel cells to power the cars electric motors.14... 

Daimler-Benz s announcement was followed by analogous proposals by other automotive companies. Chrysler proposed to use gasoline as the originating fuel (which Daimler-Benz had rejected as being more difficult to re-form to hydrogen than methanol). 

The BMW Company (which encourages an image more sporty than that of the rival Mercedes cars of Daimler-Benz) is also active in fuel cell-driven cars. However, their plans involve the use of liquid hydrogen, providing a range of 1000 km. 

The Daimler Benz Motor Company in Germany demonstrates its first fuel cell vehicle. 

The West German Companies, Daimler Benz and BMW have also performed studies and converted autos. All these projects have had two major elements 1- conversion of the internal combustion... 

In September 1997, NECAR 3 was rolled out. It was an experimental fuel cell version of the pricey five-door A-Class subcompact, which Daimler-Benz was about to unveil with conventional gasoline and diesel engines in Europe. NECAR 3 s 50-kilowatt PEM fuel cell was fueled by methanol, and the early scuttlebutt was that NECAR 3 might be the basis for the company s first production fuel cell vehicle. 

Other companies working on planar solid oxide fuel cell power plants include Dornier as part of the Daimler-Benz group, and, in Japan, Tonen, Sanyo Electric, Murata, and Mitsubishi. 

Based on the MCFC, the German companies MTU and Daimler-Benz have developed the Hot Module concept of a decentralized power plant, which can be fueled with natural gas, coke furnace gas, or biomass gas. Efficiencies of up to 65 % are expected to be achievable. A demonstration plant in Dorsten, Germany, with an electric power of 300 kW working with pipeline natural gas is being connected to the electricity grid since August 1997 [37]. In addition, process heat at a temperature of 400 - 450 °C can be utilized the efficiency is about 50 %. 

End of the nineties some of the most important developers in Europe, Daimler-Benz/Domier and Siemens, terminated their activities in planar SOFC. After an interim phase the number of engaged companies has again increased, though. 

A description of the company environmental management structure including staff, relationships, responsibilities and procedures of implementation of policies and goals in the organisation should be provided. This should include information on the environmental management system in place, programmes of improvement of environmental performance. Examples of reports providing this are National Westminster Bank Pic 1994, Daimler Benz 1995, Pharmacia 1994, and Baxter 1994. 

Modesty, because during the first years as entrepreneur, you cannot expect that you will have a salary such as your colleague who has started his career at Daimler-Benz. To the contrary, you will be poor as a church mouse because you have to spend all your money on your company. 

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