In February and March, Beijing, the city of the Double Olympics, saw few trucks on the road. This makes a graffiti-doodle Pikachu transporter stand out, with the ID.4 X standing on it. The electric car from SAIC Volkswagen will be delivered to its owners in Beijing, and the story of a car and a person will turn the title page.
The editor of SAIC Volkswagen's 2021 annual green achievement report just read the 2021 annual green achievement report, but because he encountered this electric car that carries the historical significance of the Volkswagen brand "Elephant Turn", he thought of some of the latest brand details -
SAIC Volkswagen has been developing ultra-low rolling resistance tires, has reduced the rolling resistance value from 6.8% to 6.5%, and in 2021, the tire with a rolling resistance value of 6.5% will be officially applied to the new fuel vehicle, and the 0.3% rolling resistance value optimization can reduce CO emissions by 5.1g/km, fuel consumption by 0.2142L/100km, and the environmental protection effect is obvious. (Rolling resistance is a strange term meaning tire rolling resistance, and it's important to know that 14%-20% of the fuel consumption of passenger cars is caused by tire rolling resistance.) ）
AT the beginning of the year, SAIC Audi, which was highly profiled by top artists, was very low-key in the promotion of green actions: as early as last year, SAIC Volkswagen completed the independent development of the first all-aluminum door cover structure of the Audi A7L SAIC Volkswagen, which made the audi A7L door more lightweight, reducing weight by about 35%, and the lightweight body can reduce CO and other exhaust emissions, while the use of riveting process will also make the production and manufacturing of the vehicle more energy-saving and environmentally friendly.
In addition, for a long time, SAIC Volkswagen's recyclable, degradable car seat materials, and even high-performance, long-life three-electric systems, have not been too much captured by the market, and the market is more willing to pay attention to which products on sale can be played, and whose sales volume rises and who falls.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Just like SAIC Volkswagen was best known in the previous year for launching the MEB platform ID.4 X, ID.6 X, ID.3 and other models.
However, compared with the small grass that can get praise by breaking through the soil, the large trees need to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to open up a wider shade, and through time precipitation, they can see the results.
As the leader of the automotive industry in the Chinese market, SAIC Volkswagen is like a big tree, compared with other brands, in addition to temporary achievements, leading the sustainable development of the industry is as important, it not only has to work hard to do a good job in electric vehicles, but also through the power of the system to make the green footprint go further.
The foundation of goTOzero
On March 29 last year, SAIC Volkswagen's Ningbo plant was busy as usual. The editor of the car arrived in the afternoon and began an in-depth experience.
The standard Industry 4.0 factory and the quality of "taking the law" are the most intuitive feelings given by the Ningbo factory. In the stamping workshop, the German Schuler high-speed automatic stamping machine runs smoothly and emits a slight sound; all the key parts of the body-in-white body in the body workshop are welded by the robot, speed and accuracy; the assembly workshop adopts a modular assembly process layout, which divides the assembly into four modules: cockpit, front wall, powertrain and door, and the manipulator adopts ultra-high-precision servo motor control, which can ensure that the precision of the vehicle reaches 0.1MM and reduces abnormal noise.
In addition, strictly according to China's climatic conditions, air quality, oil quality and road conditions, all-round road test inspection to simulate the user car environment are also being carried out in an orderly manner, and the media visit team of the same industry feasts on their eyes.
There was only one regret on the day, the paint shop was told that because of a number of high standards such as environmental protection, it could not "explore".
Ningbo plant
The whole Ningbo factory was visited, and in the words of the peer media: "The production noise basically does not feel that this is an automobile factory, but more like the production place of scientific and technological products." The whole factory did not feel the dust indoors and outdoors, and even did not smell the paint. ”
In fact, the green SAIC Volkswagen, the foundation is in the factory.
Taking the Ningbo factory we visited as an example, the unseen paint workshop is an energy-saving point, the workshop will reduce the pure gas temperature and the frequency of new exhaust fans when there is no car, which can save 93,000 cubic meters of natural gas throughout the year.
In addition, this plant alone can generate about 48 million kWh of photovoltaic green electricity per year, save 14,000 tons of standard coal, and roughly convert it to reduce CO emissions by 34,000 tons. The plant uses reclaimed water for daily chemical dispensing and inclined plate flushing, which can reduce wastewater discharge by about 5700 tons per year.
Changsha plant
MEB plant
The Ningbo plant is the epitome of SAIC Volkswagen's many factories, but also the epitome of the entire enterprise, in SAIC Volkswagen, practicing green is not an empty word, a halo.
In 2021, SAIC Volkswagen has successfully passed the external audit of the environmental management system and maintained the validity of the company's environmental management system certificate. All factories have successfully passed the ISO14001 environmental management system annual certification audit, and the MEB factory has also obtained the green building design logo certificate. The thinking of green production has been integrated into the blood.
"Green" into every cell
At present, some factories of SAIC Volkswagen are trying to launch "carbon coins" and establish a "carbon trading market" internally, and each workshop has an annual indicator of "carbon coins", and "carbon coins" are denominated in electricity, so that each workshop and each employee can establish environmental awareness. Such a miniature market has also been rumored to be anecdote.
In fact, SAIC Volkswagen's green concept has entered every cell.
Not only cars, not only production, not only technology, not just every publicity and dissemination, everyone is participating in green action.
Chen Bing (pseudonym) participated in SAIC Volkswagen's "Journey of Great Rivers and Great Rivers" and worked with the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation to explore ways of ecological development along the Yangtze River Economic Belt. More than a year has passed, and he describes:
"At that time, a convoy of 10 SAIC Volkswagen SUVs departed from Tanggula Mountain, the source of the Yangtze River in Qinghai, and the convoy drove from the source of the Yangtze River to the mouth of the sea, passing through more than 10 provinces and cities along the Yangtze River, with a total distance of nearly 10,000 kilometers, and finally arrived in Shanghai." With the company of the journey, the natural ecology along the Yangtze River is unobstructed, and saic-volkswagen's green concept is also remembered.
Hou Yu (pseudonym) is an employee of SAIC Volkswagen, and the biodiversity conservation activities mentioned by Chen Bing, in his words, are "normalized." ”
In 2021, "protecting biodiversity" is an important theme of SAIC Volkswagen's green public welfare activities. In order to sustainably carry out biodiversity conservation and to allow all stakeholders in the value chain to participate together, SAIC Volkswagen mobilized the participation of people inside and outside the company and designed a variety of activities such as employee environmental protection golden ideas collection, ecological observation of the park, and construction of insect hotels. The design of the event is based on the international multi-generation protection case as a reference, and the green and sustainable voice of SAIC Volkswagen is transmitted as widely as possible through knowledge popularization, problem discovery and problem solving.
"It's a series of activities." Hou Yu introduced, "Biodiversity is actually another major challenge facing our ecology after dealing with climate change, but this concept is still relatively new in China." In order to let more people understand the importance of this matter, we start from the small things around us, through interesting forms of internal and external appeals, such as the employee-centered creative collection of 'Environment Week Golden Ideas', mobilized the internal enthusiasm, test drive green ecological observation tour and the ecological observation activities of the Volkswagen Park can transmit the concept to the outside of the enterprise, even our computer screensavers, building TVs are not idle, in short, goTOzero, goTOzero ..."
Even though the green action of the whole value chain has always been an ing model for SAIC Volkswagen, the strong implementation of goTOzero is becoming more and more grounded and refined.
This time, opening the SAIC Volkswagen 2021 green achievement document, compared with the previous year's "SAIC Volkswagen 2020 Annual Corporate Social Responsibility Report", the editor of The RoadCom obviously feels that this green chess game that is more than just electric vehicles has a lot of details.
As mentioned at the beginning of the article, quietly replacing the product with more energy-saving tires, the new SAIC Audi A7L has also made environmental protection efforts, and the unknown small things of SAIC Volkswagen, the "old top of the car circle", let Xiaobian jump out of the role of observer, as a car owner, the matter of participating in environmental protection has changed.
In the past, if the car selection considers environmental protection, we will classify the car according to energy: fuel vehicles, new energy vehicles, or care about displacement, but few people can understand, in fact, whether it is a fuel vehicle or an electric vehicle, every turn of the wheel, every click of the door switch, and even the car building process farther away from us, can be related to the environmental protection plan, and the green account book of the whole industry chain behind a car is actually deeper.