Volvo Cars
to radically reduce carbon emissions as part of new ambitious climate plan
Volvo Cars today launches one of
the most ambitious plans in the automotive industry, aiming to reduce its lifecycle
carbon footprint per car by 40 per cent between 2018 and 2025. This is the
first, tangible step towards Volvo Cars’ ambition of becoming a climate neutral
company by 2040.
The plan represents concrete
actions in line with the global Paris climate agreement of 2015, which seeks to
limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Volvo Cars’ 2040 ambitions go
beyond addressing tailpipe emissions through all-out electrification, another
area in which the company is at the forefront. It will also tackle carbon
emissions in its manufacturing network, its wider operations, its supply chain
and through recycling and reuse of materials.
As a near term step towards its
2040 ambition, Volvo Cars is implementing a set of ambitious, immediate
measures in its efforts to reduce the company’s lifecycle CO2 footprint per car
by 40 per cent between 2018 and 2025. At that point in time, the company also
aims for its global manufacturing network to be fully climate neutral.
“We are transforming our company
through concrete actions, not symbolic pledges,” said Håkan Samuelsson, chief
executive. “So at Volvo Cars we will address what we control, which is both our
operations and the tailpipe emissions of our cars. And we will address what we
can influence, by calling on our suppliers and the energy sector to join us in
aiming for a climate neutral future.”
To realise the significant 40 per
cent reduction of its CO2 footprint per car by 2025, the company has devised a
number of ambitions for different parts of its operations. The previously
communicated goal of generating 50 per cent of global sales from fully electric
cars by 2025 is a prominent one, which would result in a 50 per cent reduction
in tailpipe carbon emissions per car between 2018 and 2025.
Other short-term ambitions include
a 25 per cent reduction of CO2 emissions related to its global supply chain by
2025, a 25 per cent share of recycled plastics in new Volvo cars by 2025 and a
25 per cent reduction of carbon emissions generated by the company’s overall
operations, including manufacturing and logistics.
Volvo Cars was the first
conventional car maker to commit to all-out electrification and phasing out
cars powered only by an internal combustion engine. As of this year, every new
Volvo launched will be electrified and the company today also launches its
first fully electric car, the XC40 Recharge. Starting with the XC40 Recharge,
Volvo Cars will disclose the average lifecycle carbon footprint of each new
model.
The XC40 Recharge is the first car
in Volvo Cars’ new Recharge car line. Recharge will be the overarching name for
all chargeable Volvos with a fully electric and plug-in hybrid powertrain. The
Recharge car line aims to further boost sales of Volvo Cars’ electrified cars
and encourage plug-in hybrid drivers via incentives to use Pure mode as much as
possible.
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