Iveco Group inaugurates its new ePowertrain plant in Turin, the Group's first totally carbon-neutral manufacturing site - PR Newswire APAC - PR Newswire Asia

, /PRNewswire/ -- FPT Industrial, the planetary powertrain marque of Iveco Group (MI: IVG), inaugurated the caller Turin (Italy) ePowertrain works connected October 18, a manufacturing tract afloat dedicated to the accumulation of the electrical powertrain scope and Iveco Group's archetypal wholly carbon-neutral plant.

Covering a full country of 15,000 sq meters, the works generates its ain vigor with star panels and different innovative photovoltaic and upwind powerfulness technologies, purchases further vigor from renewable sources and buys c credits to afloat offset its CO₂ emissions. A 6,000 sq metre interior abstraction planted with 100 drought-resilient plants adds a further expected absorption of CO₂ of astir 7 tons a year.

At afloat capacity, the works volition employment astir 200 radical to nutrient implicit 20,000 electrical axles and implicit 20,000 artillery packs a year. The electrical axles volition equip heavy-duty vehicles specified arsenic the Nikola Tre truck, portion the electrical transportation boxes and compact artillery packs volition beryllium installed connected airy commercialized vehicles and minibuses, specified arsenic the caller IVECO eDAILY. Both these zero-emission vehicles were presented astatine IAA Transportation commercialized amusement successful Hannover, Germany, 1 period ago.

The adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies – including highly automated warehouses, augmented and virtual reality, intelligent sensors, 3D scanners for metrology-grade measurements, 3D world simulators, cooperative robots and thermal imaging cameras – volition guarantee improved safety, sustainability, quality, productivity, and logistics management.

"Iveco Group has acceptable itself the challenging extremity of reaching nett zero c emissions by 2040, 10 years earlier the deadline of the Paris Agreement. This applies arsenic to our products and to the places wherever we enactment to nutrient them. From this works we volition proviso e-powertrain applications that volition complement an already extended motor line-up, confirming our volition to connection customers the close products and services to conscionable their rapidly changing needs and our credible ambition to pb the electromobility race", said Gerrit Marx, CEO, Iveco Group.

Iveco Group N.V. (MI: IVG) is the location of unsocial radical and brands that powerfulness your concern and ngo to beforehand a much sustainable society. The 8 brands are each a large unit successful its circumstantial business: IVECO, a pioneering commercialized vehicles marque that designs, manufactures, and markets heavy, medium, and light-duty trucks; FPT Industrial, a planetary person successful a immense array of precocious powertrain technologies successful the agriculture, construction, marine, powerfulness generation, and commercialized vehicles sectors; IVECO BUS and HEULIEZ, mass-transit and premium autobus and manager brands; IDV, for highly-specialised defence and civilian extortion equipment; ASTRA, a person successful large-scale heavy-duty quarry and operation vehicles; MAGIRUS, the industry-reputed firefighting conveyance and instrumentality manufacturer; and IVECO CAPITAL, the financing limb which supports them all. Iveco Group employs astir 34,000 radical astir the satellite and has 28 manufacturing plants and 29 R&D centres. Further accusation is disposable connected the Company's website www.ivecogroup.com