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Opening his presentation at the IAA Munich International Motor Show, Volkswagen Group Chairman Herbert Diess warns: “Climate change will be the greatest challenge for humanity in the coming decades. With virtually unlimited burning of coal, oil and gas, climate change is steadily accelerating. More and more people realize how dramatic the situation is and want to take action.
“This can be reduced to nearly zero by charging with ‘green’ energy. In most of the European countries like Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, most of the ID.3 vehicles are driving with green energy, so the prerequisite for decarbonizing the transport sector is the availability of green electricity from sources like sun and wind.”
Diess highlights Volkswagen’s own efforts in greening its energy such as its powerplant in Wolfsburg, Germany which generates electricity for the car plant and district heat for the nearby city.
It is being converted from coal to gas, saving 1.5 million tons of CO2 annually – equivalent to the yearly emissions of 870,000 ICE-powered cars.
Going further, its subsidiary MAN Energy Solutions is working to replace district heating from fossil fuel plants with a sustainable energy sourced heat-pump plant with sector coupling. Being piloted in Esbjerg, Denmark, with an overall heating capacity of 50 megawatts, the plant will supply about 100,000 households with 235,000 megawatt hours of heat per year. It is expected to save 100,000 tons of CO2 annually, equivalent to the CO2 emissions of 55,000 cars.
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