On the road to "achieving climate zero-load operation", Volvo Cars has taken another solid step.
On March 28, 2022, on the fifth anniversary of the completion of the Volvo Cars Taizhou factory, it also ushered in an important moment for the factory to achieve 100% electric carbon neutrality.
was rated as the "national green factory" of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in 2019, and the Chengdu factory in 2020 became the first domestic automobile factory to achieve zero carbon emissions of electricity. Now, the Taizhou factory has achieved 100% electricity carbon neutrality. So far, Volvo Cars' three automobile manufacturing bases in China have achieved the green electricity goal, further confirming Volvo Cars' determination to continuously promote sustainable development and strive to become a benchmark enterprise for climate zero load by 2040.
Volvo Car Taizhou Factory
promotes the use of clean energy and achieves 100% electric energy carbon neutrality
"By direct purchase of green electricity and expanding its own solar photovoltaic power generation and other methods, the Volvo Taizhou factory has achieved 100% electric energy carbon neutrality." Oskar Falk, general manager of Volvo Car Taizhou factory, said in an interview with Beijing News Beike Finance and other media that in terms of energy use, the Volvo Car Taizhou factory optimizes the energy structure and actively promotes the use of carbon neutrality energy.
According to Oscar, the Taizhou factory continues to improve its own power generation capacity. After expanding the solar photovoltaic power generation project, it has an installed capacity of more than 20MWp, and will continue to improve the effective utilization of renewable energy. At present, the Taizhou factory has achieved 100% electricity carbon neutrality, and the clean energy utilization rate has reached 46%.
Volvo Car Taizhou Factory Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation Project
At the same time, by continuously improving energy utilization and reducing energy consumption, Taizhou Factory strives to minimize energy consumption in the entire life cycle.
Among them, the energy management system (BMS) conducts comprehensive and effective real-time monitoring and management of the entire factory facilities and equipment to ensure that all equipment is in an efficient and energy-saving optimal operating state.
Smart microgrid can monitor the real-time electricity load at any time, electricity consumption, electricity consumption proportion and electricity consumption in different time periods, and provide professional and scientific energy optimization solutions to improve the stability and economy of the equipment, so as to achieve energy saving and consumption reduction, safe operation and lean management .
adheres to the concept of sustainable development, and Volvo Cars has always attached great importance to working with suppliers to build a sustainable supply chain.
"Considering the entire supply chain, we will also cooperate with suppliers to achieve the goal of sustainable development." Oscar introduced that Taizhou factory operates production and operation in a circular economy mode, and implements a sustainable green supply chain management strategy in accordance with the full life cycle concept of the product, and promotes the entire value chain to jointly improve resource utilization efficiency.
As of now, the utilization rate of green materials in Taizhou factories has reached 99.8%. More than 95% of the raw materials are packaged in recyclable turnover boxes, and the packaging from suppliers is also reused within the factory; the factory also systematically carries out waste resource utilization and reduction projects, and controls each stage of the waste life cycle through the use of a waste zero landfill management system, thereby converting waste into reusable resources.
About 80% of the production capacity is pure electric vehicle models. "Smart Manufacturing" helps transform into a pure electric luxury car company
In fact, as early as 2019, Volvo Cars released the "2040 Environmental Plan", striving to develop the company into a global climate zero-load benchmark enterprise by 2040.
In March 2021, Volvo Cars released its global sustainable development strategic goals. A specific timetable is given around the fields of electrification transformation and climate neutralization - to achieve full electrification by 2025, the proportion of pure electric models will reach 50%, and the rest will be hybrid models; to become pure electric luxury car companies in 2030; to strive to become a benchmark enterprise for climate zero load by 2040; all pure electric models will only be sold online.
To achieve this series of ambitious goals, advanced manufacturing capabilities will play a key role.
Volvo Cars Taizhou factory adopts the electric car future factory design concept. Through the in-depth application of Volvo Cars' self-developed information system, it has built a trinity of electric vehicle intelligent manufacturing system that integrates "smart devices", "smart supply chain" and "big data and intelligent brain".
Oscar revealed that by continuously optimizing the construction of intelligent workshops, the intelligent level of Volvo Cars' Taizhou factory has reached 93%. Currently, it mainly produces Volvo XC40, XC40 Recharge pure electric vehicles and other models, with about 80% of the production capacity being used for pure electric vehicles.
Volvo The new pure electric C40
As a pioneer in electrification, the Taizhou factory also built Volvo Cars' first battery workshop outside the European region. In addition to supplying the local Chinese market, the power batteries it produces are also exported to global markets such as Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, and other regions in addition to China.
Automatic assembly of battery module of Volvo Car Taizhou factory
Volvo Car Taizhou factory's innovation and efforts in sustainable development have also been recognized by regulatory authorities. The Volvo Car Taizhou factory has obtained the "Green Supply Chain" certification of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and has been recognized as the "Factory of the Future" by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology.
"In five years, the Taizhou factory has been built into a mature pure electric vehicle production system. What's more important is that it has electrified talents in all aspects from information technology, manufacturing engineering to production operations and logistics planning." Oscar said that the Taizhou factory is continuing to increase the production capacity of pure electric vehicle products, further helping Volvo Cars become a pure electric luxury car company.
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