Environmental Challenges Of The American Auto Industry

The American auto-industry faces environmental challenges they have to meet up with standard requirements by their consumers.This is a daunting task as the industry has to make automobile according to laws that are as a result of their customers.'According to article Motor Vehicles and Passenger car Bodies,Congress passed out acts in 1965 and 1970s,the acts were to set standards for automobile pollution and decrease automobile emmission within the next 6years'.Gale,(2004).The industry is the major user of computer chips,textiles,plastic,rubber e.t.c,most of the items are non-recyable and a threat to the envirnment they are disposed of in,creating a threat to especially animal life and in some instances water animals' life as some of the garbage

ale,2004).In this alliance the automobile companies would work together on public policy matters of common interest to provide credible industry information and data and seek consistent global regulatory standards.Before this alliance only automobile companies in the USA had such an alliance but with the increase in globalisation of business and the need of products in different parts of the world it was important to put together almost all companies under the alliance banner to share ideas and give information to different requirements in different parts of the world.Also different societies judge people by the type of car they drive.In these different societies a certain make of car shows what type of person you are and also how much you earn and what you can afford.If this information was readily available to all automobile companies then they could make specific makes of cars targeting different societies and to the satisfaction of their consumers.Due to the globalisation of business there is global competition amongst automobile companies.For most companies they have plants and garages in different countries across all continents that can serve consumers with their make of car.For instance you find companies like Ford,Nissan,Mazda,Volkswagen and Toyota with plants in South Africa,Zimbabwe and other African nations.You also notice garages that service the specific above mentioned car types.This makes it easier for customers in African countries to get their cars serviced