Volvo Car’s Taizhou manufacturing plant has switched to biogas, the Geely-owned brand says.
It is now the firm’s first plant in China to achieve climate-neutral status and will reportedly result in a reduction of more than 7,000 tonnes of CO2 per year.
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It is Volvo Car’s second car plant globally to become climate-neutral after, its Torslanda facility in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Varela, Chief Operating Officer and Deputy CEO at Volvo Cars said: “The switch to biogas at our Taizhou plant demonstrates how each of our manufacturing locations across the globe is developing its own climate-neutral energy mix, based on what’s available in the region.”
The Taizhou plant’s energy supply comprises of electricity and heating. It produces around 40% of its electricity needs from on-site solar panels.
The remaining 60%, which comes from the grid, is also climate-neutral electricity from solar. Its heating need is, with this latest switch, met by using climate-neutral biogas.
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