EDITORIAL: Engineering the ‘sustainability thing’

Sustainable and sustainability are words that are fast becoming industry vernacular. They're woven into executive speeches, press releases, marketing, and engineers' messaging. That's because a gospel of sustainable practices is spreading fast among the leading automotive OEMs and their supply base. And as such a paradigm-setting trend deserves, we're focusing on it in this month's Automotive Engineering.

“Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs,” is one definition of the term. In my view, sustainability is analogous to efficiency - of the product, of manufacturing and of human resources - the equitable treatment of employees and the community. At its heart is a circular economy that's not just about EVs and climate change.