Volkswagen is making a concerted effort to make the way it moves its vehicles as sustainable as the electric vehicles it is moving. A good example is seen in the export of ID.4 from Germany to the US, as Marcus Williams finds out
Volkswagen has been exporting volumes of its ID.4 luxury electric SUV to the US from its assembly plant in Zwickau Germany since March 2021. By the end of May it had moved 8,300 of the vehicles and what is significant is that VW wants the method of delivery to be as sustainable as the vehicle it is delivering. That is part of the carmaker’s ‘goTOzero impact logistics’ strategy, which is focused on green rail transport and the use of car carrier ocean vessels fuelled by liquified natural gas (LNG).
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