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03/16/23
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Audi’s Mission:Zero environmental program

Mission:Zero is Audi’s environmental program for systematically sustainable production. This is where all activities and measures designed to reduce the environmental footprint at Audi locations worldwide, in manufacturing and in logistics, are brought together in one place. The focus is on the key challenges for Audi of decarbonization, water usage, resource efficiency, and biodiversity. A key target is for Audi production locations to be net carbon neutral1 by 2025.

Mission:Zero at the Brussels site

The Brussels plant is the world’s first certifiedcarbon-neutral high-volume production facilityin the premium segment. Audi Brussels offsets all emissions generated in manufacturing and other areas of the company at the site. It does this primarily by purchasing and generating renewable energy, but also through environmental projects. Independent assessors have certified its carbon neutrality.

Audi Brussels has installed a photovoltaic power plant on the plant grounds, covering a total area of 107,000 square meters. In fact, the plant operates the largest photovoltaic power plant in the Brussels region, generating approximately 9,000 megawatt hours of electricity every year. This saves around 1,881 metric tons of CO2.

The Brussels site follows the most stringent of environmental standards. In 2013, the Brussels region declared the plant to be an “Ecodynamic Company,” a regional environmental certificate that is awarded every three years. Audi Brussels achieved the highest rating of three stars. Since 2001, the Brussels location has also been certified according to the European Union’s Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS).

1 Audi understands net-zero carbon emissions to mean a situation in which, after other possible reduction measures have been exhausted, the company offsets the carbon emitted by Audi’s products or activities and/or the carbon emissions that currently cannot be avoided in the supply chain, manufacturing, and recycling of Audi vehicles through voluntary offsetting projects carried out worldwide. In this context, carbon emissions generated during a vehicle’s utilization stage, i.e., from the time it is delivered to the customer, are not considered.

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The indicated consumption and emissions values were determined according to the legally specified measuring methods. The WLTP test cycle completely replaced the NEDC on January 1, 2022, which means that no NEDC figures are available for vehicles with new type approvals from after this date.

The figures do not refer to a single, specific vehicle and are not part of the offering but are instead provided solely to allow comparisons of the different vehicle types. Additional equipment and accessories (add-on parts, different tire formats, etc.) may change relevant vehicle parameters, such as weight, rolling resistance and aerodynamics, and, in conjunction with weather and traffic conditions and individual driving style, may affect fuel consumption, electrical power consumption, CO2 emissions and the performance figures for the vehicle.

Due to the more realistic test conditions, the consumption and CO2 emission values measured are in many cases higher than the values measured according to the NEDC. This may result in corresponding changes in vehicle taxation since September 1, 2018. Additional information about the differences between WLTP and NEDC is available at www.audi.de/wltp

Further information on official fuel consumption figures and the official specific CO2 emissions of new passenger cars can be found in the “Guide on the fuel economy, CO2 emissions and power consumption of all new passenger car models”, which is available free of charge at all sales dealerships and from DAT Deutsche Automobil Treuhand GmbH, Hellmuth-Hirth-Str. 1, 73760 Ostfildern, Germany (www.dat.de).

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