Production of the Audi Q8 e-tron at Audi Brussels

Since December 2022, Audi Brussels has been producing the Audi Q8 e-tron and the Audi Q8 e-tron Sportback, the top model of the electric SUVs from the brand with the four rings. A look behind the scenes. The Audi Q8 e-tron arrives at customers in Europe and the United States as a certified, CO2-neutral1 car. From 2025, all plants are to produce CO2 neutrally as part of the company-wide Mission:Zero environmental program. Brussels, which was named "Factory of the Future" in 2020 by the employers' association Agoria, has already been this far since 2018. Since the start of production of the Audi e-tron, the Belgian site has been the world's first certified CO2-neutral large-scale production facility in the premium segment. The site switched to green electricity as early as 2012. Among other things, Audi Brussels installed one of the region's largest photovoltaic systems on the plant site, covering 107,000 square meters. The plant generates around 9,000 megawatt hours of electricity from sustainable energy each year. Enough to charge around 90,000 Audi Q8 e-tron cars and save around 1,881 tons of CO2. The companies supplying the battery cells are also obliged to use only energy from renewable sources in their production. The electric drives for production no longer arrive by truck but by green freight trains from Hungary to Brussels. Since May 2022, there has been transport via rail on the approximately 1,300-kilometer route, which saves around 2,600 tons of CO2 annually.