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Audi building 160,000 m2 photovoltaic system for Gy?r, Hungary plant

Green Car Congress

We are committed to the economical use of resources and therefore want to keep the environmental impact of our production as low as possible. With the construction of the solar-cell park, we are now taking a further step to achieve this in terms of power supply. The system will have a peak output of 12 megawatts.

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Audi Hungaria starts operation of Europe’s biggest solar roof installation

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In 2012 Audi’s Hungarian plant opened a geothermal facility to supply most of its heat requirements. The focus lies on the challenges that are key to Audi: decarbonization; water utilization; resource efficiency; and biodiversity. r in Hungary is engaged in decarbonization by means of three mechanisms.

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Audi building geothermal plant for factory in Gy?r, Hungary; 60% of total heat requirements

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After going into operation in just over a year, it will supply the company with at least 82,000 megawatt hours of geothermal energy per year and will cover about 60% of total heat requirements. signed a long-term contract on the supply of heat energy with the Hungarian company “DDEnergy.” For the project, Audi Hungaria Motor Kft.

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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

Green Car Congress

In Germany, all Mercedes-Benz plants will be supplied with CO 2 -neutral energy. Today, new plants in Europe are already planned with a CO2-neutral energy supply from the start. With a CO2-neutral energy supply of the plants, we are consistently pursuing this approach and are actively driving sustainability in production.

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BMW outlines iFACTORY production strategy; transformation to e-mobility; Plant Debrecen first CO2-free plant

Green Car Congress

The BMW iFACTORY is not a one-off showpiece but an approach we will implement at all our plants in the future —from our 100-year-old home plant in Munich to our forthcoming plant in Debrecen, Hungary. Wherever possible, production materials and resources will be reused. —Milan Nedeljkovi?.

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COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

Cars That Think

John Snow's 1854 Broad Street map of cholera contagion in London was not only instrumental in identifying lessons learned—the most important being that cholera was transmitted via the water supply—but also in improving policymaking during the crisis. Resistance to change can also come from the highest levels.

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GM introducing new generation of modular 3- and 4-cylinder Ecotec engines; 11 variants from 1.0L to 1.5L

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Shenyang, China; Szentgotthárd, Hungary; Toluca, Mexico; and Changwon, South Korea. The new Ecotec engines represent a clean-sheet design and engineering process, leveraging the diverse experience of GM’s global resources. The cam phasers are supplied with oil through separate bores in the cylinder block and head.

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