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Politics Newsletter

IAA Special Issue – September 2012

1 – Climate 2 – Environment | Climate 3 – Climate | Climate 4 – Environment

Trucks and buses are the driving forces of the future

All over the world, policymakers are determining the

course for the sustainable mobility of tomorrow. The

right eye to combine the mobility needs of people and

industry with the ambitious climate targets worldwide is

in demand.

It’s their flexibility that makes trucks and buses so attractive

for haulers, loaders, and companies as well as for citizens, muni-

cipalities, and entire countries. Trucks are indispensable when it

comes to efficiently transporting goods from A to B, regardless

of how good or bad the roads are. Without buses, public trans-

portation would not be appealing: They bring people from A to

B reliably and inexpensively on a daily basis, no matter how long

the journey, while also being kind to the environment. Trucks and

buses enable industry and authorities to respond quickly to new

situations, such as a sudden demand for more goods or connec-

ting new residential areas to the public transportation network.

They’ve been around for over a century, during which time

they’ve become more and more efficient and cleaner and clea-

ner. Nowadays, the vehicles emit hardly any fine particles and

nitrogen oxide and manufacturers have cut fuel consumption

further and further — today a long-haul truck pulling 40 tons

consumes just under 30 liters of diesel over 100 kilometers

depending on the route and the way it’s driven.

The challenge for the future is still saving even more fuel

and reducing CO2 emissions further. This will only work if we

all pull together: manufacturers, makers of bodies and trailers,

and shippers as well as policymakers, lawmakers, and citizens

need to do more than just design an eco-friendly commercial

vehicle on the drawing board — they need to put it on the

road. MAN has the technology. We know what the commer-

cial vehicle of tomorrow that will allow industry and people to

advance looks like. Now it’s up to the political arena to pave

the way for the future.

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indicators. The MAN CR Report for 2011 was fully checked by a

firm of auditors for the first time, for example, which meant that it

fulfilled the Global Reporting Initiative’s A+ application level. Reac-

tions from the capital

market were positive:

oekom research, an

independent rating

agency for sustainable

investment strategies,

recommends MAN

as investment. To the

Sustainable Asset

Management Group

(SAM), MAN belongs

to the leading com-

panies with outstan-

ding achievements in

sustainability.

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When the clean commercial vehicles will roll on German

roads depends heavily on political measures. Transportation

companies will have to be able to compensate for the extra

development-related costs — a separate toll-charge rate for

Euro VI vehicles from the end of 2013 is the right political mes-

sage. In order to ensure that goods transportation remains affor-

dable in the long-term, policymakers need to task themselves

with making climate-friendly commercial vehicles possible.

Every new vehicle generation offers more eco-friendliness

and more safety than the last. However, MAN has not only set

itself the target of reducing CO2 emissions for its products,

its trucks and buses, but for production too: the Company’s

own greenhouse gas emissions are to be cut by 25 percent by

2020. The target is binding and part of the MAN Group’s Cli-

mate Strategy. “We can only meet our responsibility and seize

business opportunities at the same time if we have clear and

binding targets. After all, climate protection and cost effective-

ness belong together: efficient, low-emission production and

products minimize emissions and cut costs,” explains Dr. Georg

Pachta-Reyhofen, Chief Executive Officer of MAN SE.

MAN intends to achieve this target through comprehensive

energy management and the use of renewable energies. The

MAN Truck & Bus plant in Steyr already uses the waste heat

from engine test beds to heat production halls, for example.

In order to monitor and steer implementation of the Climate

Strategy, MAN regularly collects and reports key performance

MAN Climate Strategy sets 25 percent less CO2 as target

MAN will be presenting its new TG series with Euro VI engi-

nes at the IAA 2012 — making clean commercial vehicles

a reality. Political focus will now have to shift to fuel con-

sumption in order to equally cut CO2 emissions and costs

in road haulage.

The European Commission has been continuously redu-

cing the limits for diesel exhaust fumes since the introduction

of the first emission standard in 1992. Clean trucks will become

a reality on January 1, 2014, with Euro VI: commercial vehicle

manufacturers have reduced soot particles by 97 percent and

nitrogen oxide by 95 percent in 20 years. However, there is one

major disadvantage: the reduction in emissions has been at the

expense of fuel consumption and as a result CO2 emissions.

But MAN considers as low fuel consumption as possible a

top priority in order to be able to make goods and passenger

transportation climate-friendly, kind to the environment, and

cost-effective. Industry supports climate protection: in times

of rising diesel prices, fuel consumption is a key purchasing

argument for fleet operators since it accounts for more than

30 percent of total costs. The improved aerodynamics of the

new TG vehicles also play a key role in ensuring that no incre-

ased consumption arises with Euro VI.

Clean trucks now a reality — fewer CO2 emissions as next target

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As a global market leader for gas buses, MAN will be pre-

senting a new vehicle concept for quick and eco-friendly pas-

senger transportation in major cities at the IAA: the MAN Lion’s

City GL with gas

engine.

With its 18.75

meters and five

wide doors that

enable passen-

gers to board and

alight quickly, the

bus is designed

Getting through the city even faster on gas

Global potential for eco-friendly hybrid commercial vehicles

Hybrid drives have already cut the consumption of MAN

city buses by up to 30 percent. MAN will continue to back

vehicle types and areas of use in which the most CO2 can

be saved in future development.

Less CO2 is a target that MAN is pursuing worldwide.

That’s why the Company will be presenting an advanced hybrid

study of the VW Constellation for the South American market at

the IAA 2012: this means that its best-selling truck consumes

up to 15 percent less fuel and accordingly emits less CO2 by

using braking energy to drive it.

Hybrid commercial vehicles already save a considerable

amount of CO2 today. However, they have to be profitable

to be able to succeed on the market. Decreasing battery

costs, which the experts are predicting for the future, will

make hybrid trucks and buses more appealing to operators.

Access restrictions for downtowns, city toll systems, and

new – nightly – timeframes for delivery and communal services

may prove further reasons for purchasing low-emission and

particularly quiet vehicles.

MAN will also be presenting the hybrid Metropolis truck for

these uses at the IAA. It can carry out heavy transportation duties

fully-electrically and, for this reason, also quietly, meaning that it

could be used for refuse collection, for example. This enables

operators to render their supply and waste disposal services

during the morning or evening hours when there is less traffic.

for bus rapid transit (BRT) systems. After all, climate- and eco-

friendly local passenger transportation that is both efficient and

resource-conserving is one of the biggest challenges that cities

face worldwide — especially megacities with more than ten

million inhabitants. The BRT bus with gas engine reduces emis-

sions and fuel consumption in urban transportation even further.

If buses run on biogas, cities can offer their citizens CO2-neutral

bus transportation. The vehicles also cut running costs by up

to 30 percent.

More information on the bus to the future can be found in

the Group Magazine MAN Forum 02/2012 (printed edition can

be ordered at forum@man.eu) or as iPad app „MANforum“.

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MAN a pioneer of eco-friendly mobility in South America

Climate change is a global challenge that requires global

solutions. MAN Latin America’s innovative vehicle concepts

are helping to cut the CO2 emissions of the transportation

sector in South America while also reducing health-dama-

ging emissions.

Brazil’s transportation sector is growing and is one of the

drivers of economic development — as it is in other successful

countries. Trucks alone account for around 60 percent of goods

transportation capacity. MAN Latin America has been leading

the market in Brazil for over eight years and the VW Constella-

tion 24.280 ADVANTECH is the company’s best-selling truck.

The MAN Group company also exports its efficient vehicles to

other South American, African, and Asian countries. In 2012,

MAN Latin America presents its successful truck as an advan-

ced hybrid study that can save up to 15 percent CO2 by reco-

vering braking energy.

MAN Latin America has also managed to cut CO2 further

by using MAN D08 engines for the first time in its successful

vehicles. The engines meet P7, the Brazilian version of the EU

Euro V emission standard that has been in effect since the start

of this year. Compared with the EU, Brazil was more ambitious

in its reduction of emissions and skipped Euro IV. That’s why

Brazilian trucks and buses only emit 0.02 g particles/kWh and

their NOx emissions have fallen from 5 g to 2 g/kWh. MAN has

been able to achieve these values while reducing fuel con-

sumption at the same time by employing MAN PURE DIE-

SEL technology, which has been proving itself in Europe since

2008. Changes to the exterior of the VW Constellation and new

electronic components reduce fuel consumption even further.

However, MAN Latin America is not just concentrating

on making road haulage more efficient. The company is the

second-largest bus manufacturer in Brazil and equipped for

the challenges that the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016

Olympic Games will present for passenger transportation in

the country’s megacities: MAN will be showcasing its Volks-

bus with dual-fuel technology for the 2012 IAA. The vehicle

can be run 90 percent on compressed natural gas (CNG) or

biogas. The use of biogas cuts CO2 emissions even further

by an additional 20 percent and reduces fine particles by 80

percent. MAN developed the dual-fuel Volksbus under the Rio

Sustainable Transport Program.

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