Marking Three Years Of Carbon Neutrality, Bentley Motors Recertified Its Home In Crewe

Marking three years of operation as a carbon neutral site, Bentley Motors confirms the recertification of its headquarters and operations in Crewe to PAS 2060 Carbon Neutral specification.

Being the first luxury automotive brand to set a goal of becoming end-to-end carbon neutral by 2030, this reflects the measures taken by them to reduce carbon emitted through its operations.

Bentley’s board member for manufacturing, Peter Bosch, expressed, “Over the last two decades Bentley has taken a pioneering approach to sustainable entrepreneurship, creating a high quality, low environmental-impact, highly efficient production facility here in Crewe.  We are committed to reducing off-setting and our team is continually implementing great solutions to reduce our impact year-on-year.  Our ultimate aim is to create a net climate positive manufacturing footprint by 2030.”

Initially certified as carbon neutral in 2019, Bentley has continued to invest in further emissions reduction, with the result that the use of off-sets has decreased by 81 percent over the same period. 

Notably, Bentley’s carbon footprint for operations has dropped from 17,482 tCO2e in 2019 to 3,341 tCO2e in 2020. 

“Business-wise we have a clear environmental mission and the latest figures showing an 81 percent absolute reduction in CO2 emissions per vehicle, even though we have widened the scope of the measure to capture more of our operations that highlight our commitment and the speed of progress we are making,” Bosch added.

Moreover, long-term investment and forward planning have ensured that 100 percent of the electricity and gas used by Bentley is now renewable. 

Generated either by the 7.7.MW solar array on site in Crewe, or purchased as 100 percent ReGo certified electricity and 100 percent RGGO certified gas.

The former being Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (ReGo) and the latter being Renewable Gas Guarantees of Origin (RGGO).

At the same time, investment in three new energy-efficient 5.5 MW boilers has also helped to significantly reduce power consumption and make green gas use more efficient.

Plus, this green energy is not only now fuelling the factory operations, it is also now charging future Bentley hybrid and BEV models throughout the research and development phase. 

Significantly, this is all owing to the installation of 130 charging points spread out around the site in Crewe.

Apart from that, local logistics have also been considered, with the on site installation of a 34,000-litre ‘Green D+’ renewable fuel tank.

This is to allow local HGV vehicles and other non-electric site traffic to run on fuel that reduces tailpipe CO2 emissions from logistics vehicles by over 86 percent compared to regular diesel.  

Equally important, the conventional fuel usage by fleet vehicles and generators continues to be compensated with high quality Verified Carbon Standard offsets (Verra).

In short, this particular achievement reflects almost two decades of outstanding work to make the historic Crewe site as energy and carbon efficient as it can be.