Sustainability

Sustainability - Audi Q4 50 e-tron quattro, Audi Q4 Sportback 50 e-tron quattro, Audi Q4 45 e-tron Static photo, Colours: Florett silver metallic, Geyser blue metallic, Aurora violett metallic

Audi wants to become a leading provider of sustainable mobility. Clear commitment to electric mobility is an important cornerstone of Audi’s sustainability strategy. During the next years, Audi is expanding its portfolio of fully electric vehicles: By 2027, the brand with the four rings plans to have an offering for every core segment in its portfolio of fully electric models. In addition, Audi has set itself the goal of achieving company-wide net carbon neutrality* by 2050. The company is committed to ensuring sustainability along the entire value chain, assuming responsibility for its employees, the environment, and society, and making sustainable management an integral part of all its decisions and products.

Produktion und Lieferkette - Produktion und Lieferkette
Production and supply chain
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Roadmap to electric mobility
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Circular economy
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Our commitment to people and the environment
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* 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 moment it is delivered to the customer, are not taken into account.

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Circular economy: Audi secures strategic and cost-efficient supply of recycled raw materials - MaterialLoop: Audi is establishing a return concept for recyclates from end-of-life vehicles
Sustainability
04/04/2025

Circular economy: Audi secures strategic and cost-efficient supply of recycled raw materials

Audi reaches a milestone and continues to drive forward the circular economy in the automotive industry. The company wants to increase the use of secondary materials in vehicles where it is technically feasible and makes ecological and economic sense. The aim is to increasingly use raw materials for new purposes after their initial usage has ended. Audi has therefore been testing approaches to implement this in the MaterialLoop program since 2023. After initially focusing on technical feasibility, the company has now become the first car manufacturer to develop and implement an economically viable recycling concept for recyclates from end-of-life vehicles together with its partner TSR Resource. In this process, steel scrap from vehicles at the end of their life cycle is turned into high-quality post-consumer secondary material and secured for further use in the automotive supply chain.
Audi simulates global power grids to test EV charging - With 100 to 540 volts at its disposal, Audi uses the grid simulator to replicate power grids from around the world at its Ingolstadt site, enabling developers to test the charging performance of...
Sustainability
01/29/2025

Audi simulates global power grids to test EV charging

Whether with 110 or 230 volts or 50 or 60 hertz, at Audi in Ingolstadt, electric cars can now be charged as if they were in China, the United States, or in numerous other countries around the globe. At the new electric-charging test center at the Ingolstadt site, Technical Development is testing electric Audi models under the conditions that prevail in the various sales regions. The results are incorporated directly into the research and development of the vehicles. This means that customers always benefit from the best charging experience, no matter where they are in the world.
Against microplastics in wastewater - Johannes Neupert from TU Berlin (left) and Daniel Venghaus from GKD install an URBANFILTER. The filter is designed to reduce microplastics in the water cycle by up to 97%.
Sustainability
11/29/2024

Against microplastics in wastewater: pilot project started in Copenhagen

Each person consumes five grams of microplastics per week: This was the conclusion reached by the Australian University of Newcastle in 2019. The small plastic particles, up to five millimeters in size, enter the environment through food, cosmetics and washing clothes, for example, and into our bodies via the water cycle. In order to reduce the proportion of microplastics, the city of Copenhagen uses a special microplastic filter. It is intended to capture microplastics such as tire abrasion that is washed from the street into the sewage system. The filter is based on a funding project from the TU Berlin and the Audi Environmental Foundation. A filter structure that is specially adapted to the waste typical for the area of operation will be piloted in the city of Copenhagen from November and is intended to make a contribution to clean water.
Engineers of optimism: Audi Environmental Foundation looks back on 15 years of engagement - For 15 years, the Audi Environmental Foundation has been making an active contribution to environmental protection
Sustainability
10/23/2024

Engineers of optimism: Audi Environmental Foundation looks back on 15 years of engagement

The Audi Environmental Foundation defines “greenovation” as innovative technologies that either contribute directly to environmental protection or make an existing practice from the fields of research and the economy more environmentally friendly than before. Since 2009, the Foundation has initiated scientific and technical projects for a livable environment, conducted environmental education, and motivated people of every age to take action to protect our natural resources. At an evening of discussion with renowned astrophysicist Harald Lesch and time researcher Jonas Geissler, the Foundation looked back on its first 15 years of activity with around 300 guests at the Ingolstadt Cultural Center. Guests included Gerd Walker, Member of the Board of Management for Production and Logistics at AUDI AG and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Audi Environmental Foundation, and former ski racer Felix Neureuther, also a member of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees.