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When Audi’s first fully electric vehicles, the Audi e-tron and Audi e-tron Sportback, went into series production in 2018, it was the start of a new era at Audi’s Hungarian site in Györ. This is where the e-drives were produced and then delivered to Brussels, Belgium, for production of the Audi e-tron. And the same is true for the successor to the Audi e-tron, the new Audi Q8 e-tron.
Since 2018, Audi Hungary has become the centre of e-motor production in the Audi Group, and in the process the plant not only brought itself up to standard in terms of technology, but also set an example in terms of sustainability. Thanks to a geothermal plant, Europe’s largest rooftop photovoltaic system and other measures such as the purchase of biogas certificates, Audi Hungary has become carbon-neutral on the environmental balance sheet. A green production of the electric motors for the new Audi Q8 e-tron models is a substantial contribution to ensuring customers that the finished vehicles are also carbon-neutral¹ on the environmental balance sheet. But it is not only the production of the e-drives that needs to be considered. Transport to Brussels also plays a role in carbon neutrality.
The road towards carbon-neutral production starts before the shipments leave the Györ site for the Brussels location. At the world’s largest engine plant, 97% of a total of approx. 5,000 components are delivered and stored in reusable packaging and special packaging materials to save resources during transport. In addition, more than 99% of waste created at the site of Audi Hungary is recycled. For transportation to Belgium, Audi uses eco-friendly rail transportation, the so-called “Green Trains” served by DB Cargo, which are either carbon-neutral or have a carbon-neutral balance sheet¹. When traveling through Austria, the trains are supplied with 100% green electricity from renewable energy sources thanks to “DBeco plus”. As this product is not available in Hungary and Belgium, Audi uses “DBeco neutral” in these countries instead. With this product, the power used for transportation is offset by means of climate certificates, reducing carbon emissions elsewhere and thus achieving carbon-neutrality on the environmental balance sheet for both production and transport of the electric motors from Györ to Brussels.