ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the challenges that the global energy situation and the global warming present to frequent car use. Central elements in the chapter are the future of fossil fuels and the need to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions substantially. Both elements will create new frameworks for car mobility. Car use is oil dependent. Ninety-seven per cent of the fuel used in transport is fossil fuel. There is global dependence and interdependence; it is clear that there will be more fossil fuel for the economic take off of the developing world when the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries succeed in reaching high levels of energy efficiency over the next decades. Energy efficiency of car mobility is not very high on the consumer's priority list. CO2 reduction of passenger car mobility will be found in the complete functioning of the triangle consisting of car consumers, car producers and policy makers.
