Today, at a press conference on the Bright Green Event at COP 15 in Copenhagen, Peugeot reiterated its commitments in terms of sustainable mobility and its undertaking to reduce the environmental footprint of the automobile.

Maintaining and reinforcing its leadership in the reduction of CO2 emissions

With 50 % of its European sales over the first nine months of this year below 130 g/km CO2, and with 47.5 % of its worldwide sales below 140 g/km CO2 over the same period, Peugeot has clearly established itself as one of the world leaders in the automobile sector for controlling the environmental footprint of its products.

This result has been achieved by optimising current technologies – HDi engine, common rail + Particle Filter, modern atmospheric petrol engine with Variable Valve Timing (VVT), Turbocharged Direct Injection (TDI) – and it reflects Peugeot's contribution to sustainable automobile mobility. This is in no way reserved for a limited number of models, because nearly all of the manufacturer's vehicle ranges benefit from these improvements: Peugeot 207 at 99 g/km, Peugeot 107 at 106 g/km, Peugeot 308 at 120 g/km, Peugeot 407 at 129 g/km, Peugeot 3008 at 130 g/km and Peugeot 5008 at 135 g/km.

This is a major competitive advantage for Peugeot, in terms of image and cost of ownership (cost per km), and the Peugeot brand has every intention of holding onto it and strengthening it in the future.

Technologies that are already available to move progress forward: electric vehicles, Stop & Start; HYbrid 4, plug in Hybrid electric vehicles.

Demonstrating the brand's ability to cover all automobile technologies that will be reaching maturity in the near future, and to introduce these technologies to the market, Peugeot will launch its electric car, the Peugeot i0n, at the end of 2010. Customers can already place their orders for this vehicle. This will be Peugeot's comeback to the electric vehicle...

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