{"id":1648,"date":"2005-09-29T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/09\/29\/volvos-co2-free-plant\/"},"modified":"2005-09-29T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T20:58:00","slug":"volvos-co2-free-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/volvos-co2-free-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Volvo’s CO2-Free Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"
From Green Car Congress, news<\/a> that<\/p>\n AB Volvo is making<\/a> Volvo Trucks\u0092’ plant in Tuve the world’\u0092s first CO2-free automotive plant by using wind power and biofuel as sources for all the plant’\u0092s electricity and heat.<\/p>\n Combined with efforts to achieve energy savings of up to 20%, Volvo, in cooperation with G\u00f6teborg<\/a> Energi<\/a> is currently building five large wind power plants and a new biofuel plant adjacent to the Tuve plant. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n While going to CO2-free cars would definitely be the ideal step, I’d imagine that auto plants pump a hefty amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. What’s particularly encouraging about this news is the company’s progressive thinking on climate change:<\/p>\n The Greenhouse Effect is a reality and the automotive industry has a specific responsibility for coping with emissions of carbon dioxide. Reducing carbon dioxide emissions is no easy task, but the issue is so important that I believe we must be prepared to try out a variety of different alternatives, if we really want to succeed. Our investment in the Tuve plant is one such effort.<\/p>\n This is not solely an admirable environmental effort. We also expect that it will eventually be profitable on a purely commercial basis.<\/p>\n –Volvo’s Chief Executive Officer Leif Johansson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The plant’s green energy production facilities are scheduled to go online in 2007. We’ll have to watch and see if other automakers take similar steps.<\/p>\n Categories: Volvo<\/a>, cars<\/a>, plant<\/a>, energy<\/a>, wind power<\/a>, biofuel<\/a>, carbon<\/a>, climate change<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Green Car Congress, news that AB Volvo is making Volvo Trucks\u0092’ plant in Tuve the world’\u0092s first CO2-free automotive plant by using wind power and biofuel as sources for [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n