Volkswagen is choosing clean energy for its transports. When it comes to rail transportation, Group Logistics is using green energy on German routes, and a pilot project using[...]

In normal operation, approximately 90,000 carriages transport around 900,000 vehicles of the brands Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Audi, Škoda, SEAT, Porsche and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles from the plants. Their destinations are 40 hubs, importer bases and sea ports. The trains are up to 700 metres in length, are made up of an average of 22 carriages and can transport between around 220 and 260 cars. The direct connections between the plants in Neckarsulm and Ingolstadt and the Port of Emden are the most heavily used routes. Simply by transporting vehicles by rail, using DB Cargo's green energy, the Volkswagen Group saves around 14,800 tonnes of CO₂ each year compared with the regular traction power mix.

However, most of the trains between the production sites in Germany transport material: Up to 15 trains travel between the hubs of Braunschweig and Ingolstadt alone each week, for example, with carriages from the Braunschweig, Wolfsburg and Ingolstadt sites.