Neste provides renewable diesel to BMW for preliminary fueling of the corporate’s newly-produced automobiles in Germany
- BMW is sourcing Neste MY Renewable Diesel™ for the preliminary fueling of recent passenger vehicles produced at BMW vegetation in Germany.
- BMW additionally just lately expanded its approval of the usage of renewable diesel (also referred to as “HVO100”) throughout a big portion of BMW fashions.
Neste and BMW right this moment introduced a collaboration for the provision of renewable diesel. BMW will buy Neste MY Renewable Diesel™ and use the gas for the preliminary fill of diesel automobiles leaving their manufacturing vegetation in Germany. It will see Neste’s renewable diesel getting used within the BMW vegetation in Munich, Dingolfing, Leipzig, and Regensburg. The transition of the preliminary filling to HVO100 will thereby have an effect on greater than half of the worldwide manufacturing quantity of BMW’s diesel automobiles. First deliveries of the gas to particular person vegetation have already commenced.
BMW just lately expanded its approval of the usage of renewable diesel (also referred to as “HVO100” or Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil) to cowl a good bigger portion of BMW fashions. Whereas renewable diesel is generally appropriate with all diesel engines, the official approval from BMW gives additional assurance for drivers, for instance in the case of legal responsibility questions.
Joerg Huebeler, Head of Market Growth EU & APAC, Transport & Business at Neste, says :
We’re grateful for BMW’s belief in us, and we’re wanting ahead to this cooperation,
“Renewable diesel performs an necessary function within the transformation in the direction of sustainable mobility globally. The primary filling of BMW vehicles in Germany with Neste’s renewable diesel permits prospects to expertise firsthand that important GHG emission reductions with renewable diesel are doable with none affect on the car efficiency. We additionally want to specific our gratitude to our accomplice Biofuel Specific, who helps us in delivering the gas to BMW.”
This isn’t the primary time BMW and Neste cooperate on renewable diesel: In 2023, along with the usage of electrical vans, a one-year check of renewable diesel befell in logistics operations across the BMW plant in Munich – with Neste being the provider of the gas. With the steps now being taken, BMW is profiting from the change within the German regulation in spring 2024, which allows the free sale of renewable diesel in Germany.
Neste’s renewable diesel is made out of 100% renewable uncooked supplies, primarily waste and residue oils and fat. Leveraging these uncooked supplies, the usage of the gas can cut back greenhouse gasoline emissions by as much as 90%* over the life cycle of the gas in comparison with fossil diesel.
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Neste provides renewable diesel to BMW for preliminary fueling of the corporate’s newly-produced automobiles in Germany, supply
