Edouard Michelin Influenced Many

The Green Car staff is saddened by the death of Edouard Michelin, chief executive officer of Groupe Michelin and a driving force behind the Challenge Bibendum. Michelin died in a boating accident off Ile de Sein island in western France, at the age of 42. He leaves behind a wife and six children.

 

"We are each increasingly responsible to the other and we are all responsible to future generations," Michelin wrote in the pages of our print magazine, Green Car Journal. He added: "We know the condition of the world we inherited, but our children will judge us on what we leave behind."

 

Michelin's work to encourage greater environmental performance by the world's automakers, energy suppliers, and component developers through the Challenge Bibendum set a benchmark for what can be done by industry, when there is a commitment to bettering the world around us. Edouard Michelin epitomized this with his actions, and we will always appreciate him for his thoughtful leadership.