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The Swedish automaker's oldest working plant has become climate neutral this year, becoming Volvo's second site to achieve this status, marking a significant advance toward the automaker's goal of making all of its production sites climate-neutral by 2025.
What could be a surprise to some is the fact that Torslanda is actually Volvo's oldest plant, and this status was achieved through a series of carefully planned improvements. The plant currently sources half of its heat from biogas and the other from district heating by using industrial waste heat. The Torslanda plant also switched to climate-neutral electricity in 2008. Volvo has also made sure that the factory has reduced the amount of energy that it uses, and has achieved annualized savings of almost 7000 mWh during 2020, which Volvo notes is enough energy to power 450 Swedish family homes for a year.
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