Remove Automobile Manufacturer Remove CO2 Remove Waste Remove Water
article thumbnail

Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

Green Car Congress

Audi has opened its e-gas plant in Werlte, making it the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy carriers. Water and oxygen are the only by-products. The waste heat given off during methanation is used as process energy in the adjacent biogas plant, significantly increasing overall efficiency.

article thumbnail

Audi to introduce natural gas A3 Sportback g-tron at year’s end; CO2-neutral e-gas

Green Car Congress

With the e-gas project, Audi is the first automobile manufacturer to develop an entire chain of sustainable energy carriers. The Audi e-gas plant uses the renewable electricity in the first stage for electrolysis—splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen (Audi e-hydrogen), which could one day power fuel-cell vehicles.

Audi 296
article thumbnail

Japanese carmakers still ‘most sustainable’

Green Cars News

A focus on tailpipe CO2 emissions has distracted away from the impact of car production, suggests Professor Frank Figge who co-authored the ‘Sustainable Value in Automobile Manufacturing’ study. Asian carmakers are still outperforming their Euorpean and American counterparts in environmental sustainability, a new report finds.

Sodium 36
article thumbnail

Honda launches new “Green Path” initiatives for manufacturing and operations; new $210M paint line at Marysville with new 4C2B process

Green Car Congress

Significantly to reduce the CO 2 intensity and water use of its manufacturing operations. When complete, the new paint shop will be the most energy-efficient paint line in Honda’s US automobile production network. Honda is using a new 3-coat/2-bake (3C2B), water-based painting process at its Honda de Mexico, S.A.

Honda 150