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March 21, 2007
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. Receives EPA 2007 ENERGY STAR Award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management
EPA ENERGY STAR partner Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. (TEMA) was awarded a top honor when it received the 2007 ENERGY STAR Award for Sustained Excellence – Energy Management. TEMA's energy management program is a sought-after textbook for many U.S. companies wishing to benchmark themselves against the auto maker. Toyota had a strong year in 2006, with sustained energy savings of 8 percent per vehicle produced. Since 2002, Toyota has reduced energy consumption per vehicle produced by more than 24 percent. This achievement is based on its consistent deployment of actions from its "kaizen" database of more than 11,000 potential energy projects; expansion of energy audits, or "treasure hunts," to all plants once per quarter - up from once per year; and extensive use of the ENERGY STAR auto assembly plant energy performance indicator. Six assembly plants operated by Toyota in the United States have scored in the top quartile of energy use nationally, earning the ENERGY STAR.

For more information on the ENERGY STAR awards, see
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=industry.bus_industry_awards.

March 21, 2007
Ford Motor Company Receives Second EPA Partner of the Year Award for Energy Management
EPA ENERGY STAR Partner Ford Motor Company received the 2007 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Award for Energy Management. In 2006 Ford expanded its energy management program to include 13 auto component plants and strengthened its energy management commitment for 15 million square feet of corporate and research facilities. Key strategies for moving energy management ahead included using ENERGY STAR plant and building benchmarking to assess facilities' energy performance, working with suppliers to address the embedded energy burden upstream of the company, and establishing a critical link between energy management and actual process management by working directly with vehicle painting process engineers to reduce energy use in this energy-intensive stage of auto assembly. In 2006 four of Ford's U.S. assembly plants were among the first to be awarded the ENERGY STAR for superior energy performance.

For more information on the ENERGY STAR awards, see
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=industry.bus_industry_awards.

September 13, 2006
First Automobile Assembly Plants Receive the ENERGY STAR for Top Energy Performance in the Nation
Automobile assembly plants achieving a level of energy efficiency within the top quartile of energy performance in the U.S. are eligible to earn the ENERGY STAR, the national symbol of energy efficiency in manufacturing plants. Automobile assembly plants receiving the honor of displaying the ENERGY STAR banner or flag include:

Honda of America Manufacturing, Inc. assembly plant Honda Manufacturing of Alabama, LLC in Lincoln, Alabama

Honda of America Manufacturing, Inc. assembly plant East Liberty Auto Plant in East Liberty, Ohio

Honda of America Manufacturing, Inc. assembly plant Marysville Auto Plant in Marysville, Ohio

The Ford Motor Company assembly plant in Chicago, Illinois

The Ford Motor Company assembly plant in St. Paul, Minnesota

The Ford Motor Company assembly plant in Claycomo, Missouri

The Ford Motor Company assembly plant in Norfolk, Virginia

The Nissan North America, Inc. assembly plant in Canton, Mississippi

The Nissan North America, Inc. assembly plant in Smyrna, Tennessee

The Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. assembly plant (NUMMI passenger) in Fremont, California

The Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. assembly plant (NUMMI truck) in Fremont, California

The Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. assembly plant (TMMI East) in Princeton, Ind.

The Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. assembly plant (TMMI West) in Princeton, Indiana

The Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. assembly plant (TMMK Plant 1) in Georgetown, Kentucky

The Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. assembly plant (TMMK Plant 2) in Georgetown, Kentucky

Plants qualify by achieving an energy performance rating in the top 25 percent nationally using EPA's ENERGY STAR Automobile Assembly Plant Energy Performance Indicator (EPI). EPA's national energy performance rating system, developed in cooperation with industry, enables companies to evaluate the energy efficiency of their plants relative to the industry and to develop challenging energy improvement goals and plans. Scores are based on actual energy use. EPA is currently working with 10 industries to advance similar energy management tools.

June 21, 2005
EPA Announces Energy Performance Benchmark for Improving Auto Assembly Plant Efficiency
Rating the energy efficiency of auto assembly plants starts a process that will cut energy usage, save money and protect the environment.

U.S. motor vehicle manufacturers spend more than $700 million annually on energy for assembly plants. If energy use across the industry were reduced by five percent, the savings would be equivalent to conserving the fuel to operate almost 78,000 passenger cars for a year - preventing the emissions of more than 1 billion pounds of greenhouse gases.

EPA and the automobile industry worked jointly to develop the ENERGY STAR Automobile Assembly Plant Energy Performance Indicator (EPI) and were supported by the analytical skills of Argonne National Laboratory. The performance indicator benchmarks an entire assembly plant's energy use, a critical step in strategic energy management. It enables companies to determine how efficiently each plant is using energy as compared to the industry as a whole, and whether better energy performance could be expected.

Based on the input of simple plant-level information, the energy efficiency of an automobile assembly plant is scored from 1 to 100 and compared to the average and "efficient" plants in the industry. EPA defines an efficient plant at a score of 75 or better. Now, corporate energy directors can establish meaningful goals for reducing energy use in assembly plants and better manage their companies' energy costs.

The EPI was developed as part of an ENERGY STAR Industrial "Focus" with the motor vehicle manufacturing industry. EPA works closely with manufacturing industries to promote effective energy management and participating companies have reported substantial environmental, cost and energy savings while receiving recognition for their leadership. View further information online.

November 3, 2004
EPA and DOE coordinated on November 3, 2004 to provide the auto industry with an overview presentation on the energy management software offered by the Department of Energy for plant energy management.

August, 2004
The auto industry participated in the annual ENERGY STAR Energy Efficiency Focus for Auto Manufacturing in August 2004. Special attention was given to ways to reduce energy use in vehicle painting.

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