#TogetherWeChange: Audi at the GREENTECH FESTIVAL 2022

The new Audi Sustainability Hub can even illuminate the ways in which Audi has built-in sustainability into each division. It simply launched and is now out there at Audi MediaCenter.

The GREENTECH FESTIVAL 2022 affords a platform to anybody who desires to debate sustainable growth, local weather, and environmental safety whereas fostering ideas for a sustainable future. Apart from Audi, greater than 100 different exhibitors will supply shows. The competition program consists of open boards, panel discussions, keynote speeches, and boot camps. 

“Direct dialog with various stakeholders – including critics – is very important to us,” emphasizes Silja Pieh, Chief Strategy Officer at AUDI AG. “Exchanging knowledge and seeing other people’s innovative sustainability concepts is enriching for us.” Another spotlight is the GREEN AWARDS, which honor engaged people, establishments, corporations, startups, and improvements for his or her concepts about better sustainability. Linda Kurz, Head of Product Marketing in Germany, is amongst the laudators for awards, which can be offered on Wednesday (June 22). The GREENTECH FESTIVAL was based by sustainability entrepreneur Nico Rosberg and engineers Marco Voigt and Sven Krüger.

Sustainability in the provide chain

By 2030, Audi desires to incrementally scale back vehicle-specific carbon emissions by 40 p.c over reference 12 months 2018. To have the ability to attain that bold objective, it should additionally should intervene in its upstream provide chain processes in a lot of methods. Audi was in a position to save over 480,000 tons of carbon equivalents (CO_2e) in 2021 due to renewable vitality, low-carbon supplies, and secondary supplies in its provide chain.*

With its round economy technique, Audi intends to determine increasingly closed materials cycles. Raw supplies are presupposed to be reintroduced into the manufacturing course of as soon as they’re now not getting used. One instance is automotive glass: in a pilot project, Audi and its companions Reiling Glas Recycling, Saint-Gobain Glass, and Saint-Gobain Sekurit are turning outdated automotive glass into new home windows for the Audi This fall e-tron.

Carbon-neutral manufacturing websites

The Mission:Zero environmental program is Audi’s roadmap to sustainable manufacturing and logistics. The endpoint: carbon-neutral manufacturing websites by 2025. Audi Hungaria has reached this goal already in 2020 and Audi Brussels grew to become the world’s first carbon-neutral high-volume manufacturing plant in the premium section in 2018. At the Neckarsulm site, meeting of the Audi e-tron GT is internet carbon-neutral. Visitors can expertise the electrically powered Coupé up shut via the Audi driving expertise in the out of doors space at the former airport and at the Audi exhibition stand. Moreover, the plant in Neckarsulm is utilizing a pilot facility to check methods of utilizing water from an adjoining purification facility in manufacturing, as soon as it has been processed appropriately. At the Ingolstadt site, Audi has been utilizing processed wastewater as service water since 2019.

Audi charging hub

For fast charging in city areas, Audi is increase its peerless Audi charging hubs in increasingly cities. Quick-charging stations with high-power charging factors. Used lithium ion batteries operate as energy storage techniques for the charging cubes. These second-life batteries come from disassembled Audi take a look at autos. Audi notably desires its quick-charging stations to achieve drivers in city environments who wouldn’t have their very own charging choices.

Feedback for the preliminary pilot stations in Nuremberg has been constantly optimistic. Audi recorded roughly 3,100 prices at the Nuremberg location between January and the finish of April 2022. There can even be an Audi charging hub in Zürich in the second half of the 12 months. Additional areas will observe, together with in Salzburg and Berlin.

Audi Environmental Foundation initiatives

The Audi Environmental Foundation is introducing a collection of its funding initiatives, together with the German-Indian startup Nunam. This new non-profit is placing three electric rickshaws on India’s roads. They are powered by second-life batteries taken from take a look at autos in the Audi e-tron take a look at fleet. Nunam developed its three prototypes along with the coaching group at Audi’s Neckarsulm website. The electrical rickshaws are for use by a non-profit group and allow girls to take part in the rickshaw commerce whereas offering them with a secure mode of transportation.

In Brazil, the Audi Environmental Foundation, along with Audi do Brasil, is supporting the NGO Litro de Luz Brasil. In the Amazon area, these challenge companions are offering three villages that wouldn’t have electrical energy with photo voltaic lanterns, which is able to elevate their dwelling requirements and make them safer at night time.

With its URBANFILTER challenge, the Audi Environmental Foundation and the Technical University of Berlin are growing sensible filters for highway drainage. They stop environmentally dangerous particles like tire put on from being flushed into the water by way of the sewer system.

Anyone who wish to have interaction with the Audi Environmental Foundation could have the alternative to take action on the night of June 23 while plogging. Get your trainers on and rid the atmosphere of trash whereas staying in form. Anyone who won’t be on-site in Berlin or would slightly plog in a unique location can register and be a part of the working group just about.

Other GREENTECH FESTIVAL occasions by and with Audi:

Thursday, June 23, 2022
11:45 AM–12:30 PM: “Supply Chain, Circularity, and Net-Zero Industries” panel with Johanna Klewitz, Coordinator for Sustainability in the Supply Chain
4:05–4:20 PM: Fireside chat on “Circularity!” with Silja Pieh, Chief Strategy Officer

Other KOA²² occasions by and with Audi:
Thursday, June 23, 2022
2:15–3:00 PM: Panel dialogue with Miriam Mayer-Ebert, Head of General Services, on “How Sustainability Is Experienced”
3:00–3:30 PM: Keynote speech: “People Sustainability and Better Normal” by Miriam Mayer-Ebert, Head of General Services
3:30–4:00 PM: Master class: Sustainability in the Audi provide chain with Johanna Klewitz, Coordinator for Sustainability in the Supply Chain

Friday, June 24, 2022
10:30–11:00 AM: Master class: “D&I at Audi: The Little ABC of Diversity” with Denise Mathieu, Head of Diversity Management
12:30–1:00 PM: Master class: “Audi Environmental Foundation: Why, What, How” with Nadine Dietrich, Audi Environmental Foundation
1:30–2:30 PM: Master class: “Circular Economy at Audi” with Dennis Christian Meinen, Sustainability Strategy

Bundled data: the new Audi sustainability hub

Not simply at the GREENTECH FESTIVAL, all 12 months lengthy: Audi is implementing ESG standards for ecological sustainability, social duty, and good governance in each division. The new sustainability hub neatly bundles data. It has simply launched and is now out there at Audi MediaCenter.

*More than 480,000 tons of carbon dioxide equal (CO_2e) had been saved in the Audi provide chain in 2021. CO₂ equivalents are models of measurement to standardize the local weather impression of various greenhouse gases. It converts and encapsulates greenhouse gases in CO₂ equivalents. The beforehand talked about discount in the Audi provide chain in 2021 was achieved by, amongst different issues, utilizing inexperienced vitality in HV battery cell manufacturing and shutting the materials circuit for aluminum in addition to the related reuse of these supplies. Without these steps, the conservation in Audi’s provide chain in 2021 wouldn’t have occurred.