Volvo Cars switches Chinese plant to biogas to achieve climate neutrality

In China, Volvo Cars’ Taizhou manufacturing plant has switched to biogas, making it the company’s first plant in China to achieve climate-neutral status. The plant’s switch from natural gas will result in a reduction of more than 7,000 metric tons of CO2 per year.
Despite being a small share of the company’s total Scope 1-3 emissions of 43 million tons, securing climate-neutral energy for its Taizhou plant is an important step towards its goal of having climate-neutral manufacturing operations by 2025 and reducing emissions across its global operations. This ambition is also part of its broader aim to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.
Just like all of its manufacturing plants worldwide, the Taizhou plant already used climate-neutral electricity, and this latest move makes sure that it also has climate-neutral heating. It’s Volvo’s second car plant globally to become climate-neutral after its Torslanda facility in Gothenburg, Sweden.