Mercedes-Benz to halve CO2 emissions by 2030

By REUTERS | 11 April 2022


BERLIN: Mercedes-Benz aims to halve its CO2 emissions by 2030, the carmaker said today, providing a half-way goal to its existing target of becoming CO2 neutral by 2039.

The company will also work towards covering 70% of the energy it needs for production with renewable energy by 2030, up from 45-50% at present, it said.

Around 15% of this energy should come from solar and wind plants on or linked to Mercedes-Benz' own sites, production chief Joerg Burzer said in a presentation.

The rest will be sourced through so-called Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), where power producers are paid to generate a certain amount of energy over a number of years at a set price.

The carmaker is in advanced discussions to buy additional wind energy through PPAs worth €1billion (RM4.6bil) by 2025, Burzer added.

For now, Mercedes-Benz still relies on gas as a back-up supply source.

"We obviously still need the gas," Burzer said. "We are working on minimising that."

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