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2. Outlook
The automotive world is so complex that it's not easy to take stock of what's being done. What, then, can be said of the plan to anticipate future developments? Moreover, reading the forecasts made twenty years ago can only make us modest! For the long term, uncertainties are high, but we can assume that the switch to hydrogen or electric vehicles will modify the detail of plastic parts, but will probably have little impact on the overall share of plastics. On the other hand, insufficient attention to recycling could ultimately have a negative impact on employment, and in any case on the widespread use of plastics.
For shorter-term forecasts, we'll confine ourselves to general approaches that could contribute to new advances in plastics, and to developments that are probable because they have already been tested, at least on demonstration vehicles.
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Bibliography
References
Reviews
Plastics and automotive
Polymotive (bilingual French-English)
Automotive
Vehicle News
Plastics
Plastiques et Caoutchoucs Magazine Entrée en matières
Environment
Environment & Technology
Regulations
Directive 2000/53/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 September 2000 on end-of-life vehicles. Commission statements.
Commission Decision 2002/151/EC of 19 February 2002 on minimum requirements for the certificate of destruction issued in accordance with Article 5(3) of Directive 2000/53/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on end-of-life vehicles.
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Documents on the Internet
Plastics and composites in Renault vehicles, by P. Roubinet http://www.compositcar.net/
Auto-innovations.com, the library of automotive innovations http://www.auto-innovations.com/
The automobile, by P. Boursin...
Organizations
Society of Automotive Engineers (SIA) http://www.sia.fr/
French Society of Plastics Engineers (SFIP) http://www.sfip-plastic.org/
Groupement plasturgie automobile (GPA) http://www.autoplasticgate.com/
...Manufacturers, constructors
(non-exhaustive list)
SMC
Menzolit http://www.menzolit.com/
Chemical industry
Bayer MaterialScience – Automotive Industry http://www.bayermaterialscience.com/internet/global_portal_cms.nsf/id/Automotive_Industry_EN
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