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Porsche is pushing forward with the roll-out of different drives in its transport logistics fleet: Along with its logistics companions, the sports activities automobile producer is utilizing six new electrical HGVs (heavy good car) at its Zuffenhausen, Weissach and Leipzig websites.
These autos transport manufacturing supplies across the crops, working alongside an present fleet of twenty-two biogas-fuelled HGVs. One other electrical HGV delivers new autos to Switzerland from the Zuffenhausen plant. As well as, the corporate is testing using artificial fuels (HVO100) in a multi-year trial beneath the scientific supervision of the Karlsruhe Institute of Know-how (KIT). For this goal, twelve HGVs from the prevailing fleet can be used across the Zuffenhausen plant — however now they are going to be powered by re-fuels.
“Decarbonisation is an integral a part of our sustainability technique. Using vehicles with various drives and fuels is a crucial step towards attaining our bold targets. In doing so, we’re consciously opting to make use of a mixture of drive sorts which are acceptable to how the autos are deployed”, says Albrecht Reimold, Member of the Govt Board for Manufacturing and Logistics at Porsche AG.
In the middle of the decarbonisation of the corporate’s HGV transport logistics, HGVs powered by biogas (CNG and LNG) have been used, amongst others, at Porsche for a very long time. These will now be supplemented by the brand new electrical HGVs in the usual processes. Logistics companions Keller Group, Müller — Die lila Logistik and Elflein have additionally dedicated to working the electrical HGVs utilizing inexperienced electrical energy. This additionally applies to the brand new electrical HGV utilized by the logistics firm Galliker to ship new autos to the Swiss market from the Porsche manufacturing unit in Zuffenhausen.
Press launch & photographs from Porsche AG
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