Join daily news updates from CleanTechnica on e mail. Or follow us on Google News!
Porsche is pushing forward with the roll-out of other drives in its transport logistics fleet: Along with its logistics companions, the sports activities automobile producer is utilizing six new electrical HGVs (heavy good automobile) at its Zuffenhausen, Weissach and Leipzig websites.
These automobiles transport manufacturing supplies across the crops, working alongside an present fleet of twenty-two biogas-fuelled HGVs. One other electrical HGV delivers new automobiles to Switzerland from the Zuffenhausen plant. As well as, the corporate is testing the usage of artificial fuels (HVO100) in a multi-year trial underneath the scientific supervision of the Karlsruhe Institute of Expertise (KIT). For this objective, twelve HGVs from the present fleet shall be used across the Zuffenhausen plant — however now they are going to be powered by re-fuels.
“Decarbonisation is an integral part of our sustainability strategy. The use of trucks with alternative drives and fuels is an important step toward achieving our ambitious goals. In doing so, we are consciously opting to use a mix of drive types that are appropriate to how the vehicles are deployed”, says Albrecht Reimold, Member of the Govt Board for Manufacturing and Logistics at Porsche AG.
In the middle of the decarbonisation of the corporate’s HGV transport logistics, HGVs powered by biogas (CNG and LNG) have been used, amongst others, at Porsche for a very long time. These will now be supplemented by the brand new electrical HGVs in the usual processes. Logistics companions Keller Group, Müller — Die lila Logistik and Elflein have additionally dedicated to working the electrical HGVs utilizing inexperienced electrical energy. This additionally applies to the brand new electrical HGV utilized by the logistics firm Galliker to ship new automobiles to the Swiss market from the Porsche manufacturing unit in Zuffenhausen.
Press launch & photographs from Porsche AG
Have a tip for CleanTechnica? Need to promote? Need to recommend a visitor for our CleanTech Speak podcast? Contact us here.
Newest CleanTechnica.TV Video
CleanTechnica makes use of affiliate hyperlinks. See our coverage here.
