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Volvo Cars trucks-to-trains swap significantly cuts emissions in logistics network

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Volvo Cars is significantly cutting CO 2 emissions in its logistics operations by switching transports between its manufacturing plants and new car depots from trucks to trains. On another route, from Ghent to a second depot in Austria, emissions were cut by almost half since switching to rail transports.

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ENGIE New Ventures increases investment in 2nd-life battery company Connected Energy

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ENGIE New Ventures, the corporate venture fund of ENGIE, is participating in a new round of investment to further the development of Connected Energy. Based in the United Kingdom, Connected Energy uses end-of-life EV batteries to create energy storage systems. —Matthew Lumsden, CEO of Connected Energy.

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Brussels plant kicks off production for the new Audi Q8 e-tron

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Body and chassis of the Audi Q8 e-tron are connected. Since production of the Audi e-tron began, the Belgium site has been recognized as the world’s first certified carbon-neutral high-volume production plant in the premium segment. AUDI AG has owned the Belgium site since 2007. 2018 saw the birth of the Audi e-tron.

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Audi of America and Arcadia offer renewable energy subscription with e-tron or e-tron Sportback lease or purchase

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Arcadia connects renters and homeowners across the US to wind and solar energy through utility data and billing technology. The program runs from 2 March to 30 April 2021, while supplies last. The company has set itself the goal of reducing vehicle-specific CO 2 emissions by 30% by 2025. 2021 Audi e-tron.

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Ørsted proposes to develop one of the world’s largest renewable hydrogen plants: SeaH2Land

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Ørsted, the world’s leading offshore wind developer, together with the major industrial companies in the North Sea Port cluster, have launched the SeaH2Land vision for a gigawatt scale project to reduce carbon emissions in the Dutch-Flemish industrial cluster with renewable hydrogen.

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Food box delivery service HelloFresh receives seven refrigerated Mercedes-Benz eVito vans

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Mercedes-Benz Vans joined numerous drivers on their routes in order to see where the sticking points were in the daily life of a delivery driver, as well as to ascertain where processes could be optimized and how locally emission-free vehicles can best show their strengths in this domain.

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Figuring Out Semiconductor Manufacturing's Climate Footprint

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Lizzie Boakes is a life cycle analyst in the Sustainable Semiconductor Technologies and Systems Program at IMEC , the Belgium-based nanotech research organization. So the most obvious industry is the ICT industry, which is estimated to be about approximately 3 percent of the global emissions. Your scope one is your direct emissions.

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