11.09.2020

Artikel Nummer: 33159

Green electricity for all freight transports

Volkswagen is switching all Deutsche Bahn carriage of materials and vehicles within Germany to green electricity by the start of 2021. This will cut over 26,700 t of CO2 emissions a year compared to the conventional electricity mix.

95% of all such transports are already powered by green electricity. In addition even more freight is set to go by rail: Volkswagen aims to increase vehicle transportation by train from 53% today to 60% by 2022.

When operations are running normally, over 190,000 freight wagons per year are in use for Volkswagen. On average 38 long-distance and 157 local trains a day deliver materials to the plants - in total around 100,000 wagons a year. (ben)

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