As part of a development by Ford, a lifecycle product sustainability index has been developed by the car maker for its cars. Ford has applied the newly developed index to the Galaxy, Mondeo and S-Max. These efforts are directly related to carbon offsetting schemes adopted by the company.

In an effort to cut down the total impact on the environment, all the research and development programmes to come for the comapany's European cars will make use of this creation. This step by the leading car maker is a direct indication about the topic of environmental safety, which many companies are adopting. Volkswagen America is the recent example of such efforts, and a few days ago committed itself to reduce its carbon impressions or to do something for carbon offsetting.

The elements that are enveloped include the energy and materials being used during the process of assembly and distribution, safety, noise and use of sustainable building materials, well-organised with levels of the running cost. It is a very technical approach adopted by the company and no wonders that research work done in automobile engineering and mechanical engineering would be of great help for the company at this juncture.

According to the claims made by the company, two of its large people carriers have reported advancements in all these spheres when set against the traditional model Galaxy. So, encouraged by these results, Ford will be marching forward with more similar plans for carbon offsetting.