Green electricity for all freight transports

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Volkswagen is switching all Deutsche Bahn carriage of materials and vehicles within Germany to green electricity by the start of 2021. This will cut over 26,700 t of CO2 emissions a year compared to the conventional electricity mix.

95% of all such transports are already powered by green electricity. In addition even more freight is set to go by rail: Volkswagen aims to increase vehicle transportation by train from 53% today to 60% by 2022.

When operations are running normally, over 190,000 freight wagons per year are in use for Volkswagen. On average 38 long-distance and 157 local trains a day deliver materials to the plants - in total around 100,000 wagons a year. (ben)

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