The Volkswagen Group has set itself ambitious new sustainability objectives:
- CO2 emissions by the European new vehicle fleet will be reduced by some 30 percent during the period from 2006 to 2015 – emissions will be below the threshold of 120 grams CO2/km for the first time by 2015.
- Every new vehicle generation will be an average of 10 to 15 percent more efficient.
- Efficiency technologies such as start-stop and recuperation systems will be standard equipment in all new models. The new Audi A3 and the next Golf will lead the way.
- 2013 will be the year of electromobility with the Volkswagen e-up!, followed by numerous other hybrid and electric vehicles from the Group’s brands.
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These aimed ambitious product objectives are joined by far-reaching goals amed at sustainability in the production sector:
- Our worldwide production operations will become 25 percent greener by 2018 compared to 2010. Specifically, this means a 25-percent cut in energy and water consumption, and in waste and emissions.
- A 40-percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions due to energy supplies to the production sector by 2020 compared to 2010.
- To this end some €600 million will be invested in the expansion of renewable energy from solar, wind and hydro power.
This marks the start of a fundamental ecological restructuring of the Volkswagen Group. By 2016 the Volkswagen Group is to invest €62.4 billion worldwide. In addition, together with our partners we will be investing a further €14 billion in China. Well over two thirds of this investment programme will go directly or indirectly into more efficient vehicles, powertrains and technologies, and into environmentally friendly operation of our production sites.
