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Volvo’s Chengdu plant is now powered entirely by renewable energy

James BillingtonBy James BillingtonJune 5, 20202 Mins Read
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As part of Volvo Cars’ ambition to have climate-neutral manufacturing by 2025, it has announced that its manufacturing plant in Chengdu, China, is now powered by 100% renewable electricity.

The renewable energy source will power the company’s largest plant in China and will reduce its CO2 emissions by more than 11,000 tons per year.

As well as climate-neutral manufacturing, this step is part of a wider climate plan that aims to reduce the overall carbon footprint per car by 40% between 2018 and 2025. By 2040, Volvo Cars aim to be a climate-neutral company.

The new electricity contract is also in line with broader ambitions in China to reduce carbon emissions from industry and reduce the carbon footprint resulting from energy generation.

Until recently, the Chengdu plant already sourced 70% of its electricity from renewable sources. The new contract addresses the last 30%.

Under the new contract, around 65% of the electricity supply comes from hydropower, while the remainder comes from solar power, wind power and other renewable sources.

“Our ambition is to reduce our carbon footprint through concrete, tangible actions,” said Javier Varela, Head of Industrial Operations and Quality at Volvo Cars. “Securing a fully renewable electricity supply for our largest plant in China is a significant milestone and underlines our commitment to taking concrete, meaningful action.”

Volvo Cars is constantly working to reduce the carbon footprint of its manufacturing network and has reached a number of milestones in recent years. All its European plants have had a climate-neutral electricity supply since 2008, while the engine plant in Skövde, Sweden, was the first in the company’s network to become completely climate neutral in 2018.

At the Ghent plant in Belgium, Volvo Cars installed 15,000 solar panels in 2018, the first large-scale introduction of solar energy in its global manufacturing network.

These and other measures are part of the climate plan Volvo Cars launched late last year, one of the most ambitious in the automotive industry. The centerpiece of the plan is Volvo Cars’ ambition to generate 50% of global sales from fully electric cars by 2025, with the rest hybrids.

Yet the plan goes beyond addressing tailpipe emissions through all-out electrification and also seeks to tackle carbon emissions in the company’s wider operations, its supply chain and through recycling and reuse of materials.

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