2008 Climate Renewable Sweden 
Green Car Congress
JUNE 8, 2020
The Volvo Cars manufacturing plant in Chengdu, the company’s largest in China, is now powered by 100% renewable electricity, taking the company’s global renewable electricity mix in its manufacturing network to 80%. By 2040, Volvo Cars aims to be a climate-neutral company. The new contract addresses the last 30%.
Green Car Congress
MAY 27, 2021
Volvo Cars announced that its Torslanda site in Sweden is its first car manufacturing plant to reach fully climate-neutral status. This makes Torslanda the second plant in its overall manufacturing network to reach this status, after the Skövde engine plant in Sweden became climate-neutral in 2018. Torslanda plant.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 6, 2017
Europe’s transport sector is making only mixed progress in meeting its environment, health and climate policy targets, according to the latest European Environment Agency (EEA) assessment which tracks the short and long-term environmental performance of this key economic sector across the European Union. in 2015 to 7.1%
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 4, 2010
The Volvo Group is joining the World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) Climate Savers Program —the first vehicle manufacturer to do so. As one element of the agreement, Volvo will produce a truck prototype with 20% lower fuel consumption than the equivalent 2008 model. million tons (12%) before 2014, compared with 2008.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 11, 2011
The GoBiGas-project is a project for the large-scale production of renewable methane by gasification of biomass and low-quality forestry material. We have to be able to handle the climate threat as well as continue to use different means of transportation. million) to the GoBiGas biomethane project.
Green Car Congress
MAY 30, 2012
Nonetheless, emissions growth was somewhat contained by continued strong growth in renewable energy sources. This can be partially explained by the fact that there was a sharp 7.3% (or -365 million tonnes) decrease of emissions between 2008 and 2009. increase of total consumption of energy from renewable sources.
Green Cars News
MAY 26, 2009
Efforts to reduce the emissions of goods transport have proved successful after the results of the joint project KNEG (Climate-Neutral Good Transportation by Road) were presented at the Logistics & Transport fair in Gothenburg, Sweden. The 2008 members managed to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 120,000 tonnes.
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