News Digest Item
08 Jul 2016

“Car companies are saving millions with environment programmes”

Spiegel Online

German car manufacturers have invested in many measures to make their manufacturing process more climate and environmentally friendly and are saving money with these programmes, Spiegel Online reports. Since 2006, VW’s increased resource efficiency has saved the company over 158 million euros, it said. Between 2006 and 2020, BMW wants to reduce resources needed to build one vehicle by 45 percent, and when it comes to CO2, a 46 percent reduction has already been achieved, a spokesperson said. But despite all progress during production, driving cars is still the biggest source of  CO2 emissions which is why VW is putting new emphasise on electric vehicles, the article says.

Read the article in German here.

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