Porsche is pushing ahead with the roll-out of alternative drives in its transport logistics fleet.
Together with its logistics partners, the sports car manufacturer is using six new electric HGVs (heavy good vehicle) at its Zuffenhausen, Weissach and Leipzig sites.
These units transport production materials around the plants, working alongside an existing fleet of 22 biogas-fuelled HGVs.
Another electric HGV delivers new vehicles to Switzerland from the Zuffenhausen plant.
“Decarbonisation is an integral part of our sustainability strategy. The use of trucks with alternative drives and fuels is an important step toward achieving our ambitious goals,” says Albrecht Reimold, Member of the Executive Board for Production and Logistics at Porsche AG.
“In doing so, we are consciously opting to use a mix of drive types that are appropriate to how the vehicles are deployed,” he adds.
In the course of the decarbonisation of the company’s HGV transport logistics, HGVs powered by biogas (CNG and LNG) have been used, among others, at Porsche for a long time.
These will now be supplemented by the new electric HGVs in the standard processes.
Logistics partners Keller Group, Müller – Die lila Logistik and Elflein have also committed to operating the electric HGVs using green electricity.
This also applies to the new electric HGV used by the logistics company Galliker to deliver new vehicles to the Swiss market from the Porsche factory in Zuffenhausen.
Examples including the use of biogas and electric HGVs or the pilot scheme involving re-fuels demonstrate how Porsche is dedicatedly managing its transport logistics to achieve its set decarbonisation goals.
This includes rail transport.
This mode is used in particular for supplying parts and components to plants or for transporting new vehicles to the seaports, where the vehicles are then prepared for export to destinations outside Europe.
Vehicle production itself also contributes to the decarbonisation objective: Since 2020, vehicle production at the Porsche sites in Zuffenhausen and Leipzig has had a CO2-neutral balance sheet across the entire value chain and uses electricity generated via regenerative energy sources.
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