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How do you minimize the reality that shipping cars via ocean transport ships is tremendously (just amazingly) dirty? How about by emphasizing that, before they get to the ships, your cars travel via electric train that's powered by renewable energy? That's just what Audi does in a new press release about the Eco Plus transport service, and it calls itself a "trailblazer in logistics" and says that it is "setting new standards" along the way.

The cargo trains that Audi uses to move new cars from Ingolstadt up to Emden, on Germany's North Sea coast, use electricity made from renewable energy sources in Germany. Since Audi ships 150,000 cars this way each year, it calculates that it saves around 5,250 tons of CO2 per year (an average of more than 35 kilograms (77 lbs.) per car transported) compared to traditional train shipping. Every little bit helps, but once the cars get off the train, they get onto those exhaust-spewing cargo ships. Hopefully, Audi is working on cleaning up the waterborne sections of the distribution chain as well.

[Source: Audi]

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