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Porsche doesn’t like to hear that the sports car maker stands for gasoline in their blood and roaring engines, but not for sustainability. “On the contrary,” says Daniela Rathe, who, as chief lobbyist, is jointly responsible for sustainability policy: The manufacturer has always been driven by the issue of efficiency, and, like on the racetrack, Porsche wants to “drive ahead” when it comes to reducing CO2.
So far, the climate footprint has been improved at the company’s headquarters in Stuttgart and the second plant in Leipzig, primarily through the use of renewable energies. A combined heat and power plant with biogas from waste has been running in Zuffenhausen since 2019. Compressed air is no longer used on the conveyor belt, but electromechanically, which also saves energy. According to Rathe, the decisive factor for Porsche is that greenhouse gases are actually avoided and reduced: “Offsetting is the last resort.”
Porsche is one of the companies that already record upstream supply chains when calculating CO2. The climate targets for 2030 are being negotiated internally – and the question of when Porsche will become climate neutral. The first e-Porsche called Taycan came onto the market in 2019, and in five years half of the fleet should be electric.
- CARR value (in percent) 23.9
- Emission intensity 2.0
- CO2 emissions (in tons) 57,685
The complete table with all the results of the CO2 study and information on the method can be found here:
