Our sustainability work

At us, we work continuously to reduce our impact on the environment.
You can read more about our ongoing focus areas and take part in examples of activities we carry out to reduce our climate impact.

Green electricity

We has an agreement with Vattenfall and only buys green electricity that is fossil-free and produced from hydropower, solar and wind power.

An important part of our environmental work is to reduce its own energy consumption. Continued focus is on heating, gates, LEDs and hot water consumption.
In the paint workshop, we have introduced a new clear coat that cures at a lower temperature, which means that we have reduced the need for oil-heated paint boxes.

Car washes

Every year, approximately 15 million car washes take place directly on the street or in the garage driveway. This means that oil, toxic heavy metals and asphalt residues flow straight into our watercourses, lakes and seas. 

In connection with new car wash plants, we have upgraded with biochemical treatment at our plants in Tuve and Lundby. This means that we pass the limit value for Swedish water with 50% of the permitted limit values.
Most of our car washes also use approved chemicals that are "Svanen-märkta".

Our steps in the important sustainability work

Quality and environmental work is an ongoing process to achieve the company's environmental goals in 2021.
Read more about some of the sustainability activities we do.

• We repair approximately 4,500 repairs per year of bumps on the car's sheet metal surfaces, so-called "spot repairs", which means that the car does not need painting.
  This leads us to reduce our emissions of solvents by 300 kg per year.
• We list all chemicals used in the business and the chemicals are assessed and approved by Volvo Cars and registered in the Chemsoft system.
  Every 5 years, all chemicals are revalued.
• We only use Volvo Cars logistics and transports that only use Euro 6 classified vehicles.
  Through the collaboration that leads to fewer transports and we reduce CO2 emissions.
• We refuel our diesel cars with Neste MY, which is 100% renewable diesel.
• At our facilities, we have internal Recharge cars for our co-workers to use for transfers in the service.
• Our rental car fleet's Recharge models are adapted to the set Environmental Goals 2021.
• Our damage technicians in Tuve always contacts JB Bildemontering to see if there are used spare parts that have already been manufactured, which we can reuse when repairing a car that is not covered by the car damage guarantee.
• We repair and reuse about 2000 rims per year.

Contact

If you want more specific information about our sustainability work and environmental goals please contact:
ray.petera@volvobil.se
031 - 380 81 64