VW runs like the wind, powered by the wind

Volkswagen just keeps on surprising the world with new directions in its long story. The latest news is that wind will become the prime energy source for two of Volkswagen’s factories down in Mexico. Gamesa is a Spanish turbine maker that agreed just a week ago to terms with the auto industry giant. The plans are to build a 130 MW wind farm to power the two massive manufacturing facilities. Slated to be completed at the end of 2016, the project consists of 65 2-megawatt turbines which will be installed by the turbine company.

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Exclusive to Volkswagen’s Silao and Puebla factories, the wind farm is known as La Bufa and it will be maintained by Gamesa.

As of May 26, 2015, the company boasts 119 production plants across the world, including 20 in European countries and 11 more countries across the Americas, Asia and Africa. The company reports that each weekday, close to 600,00 employees worldwide produce nearly 41,000 vehicles, and work in vehicle-related services or other fields of business. The Volkswagen Group sells its vehicles in 153 countries. That makes the company big enough to be the second-largest automobile company in the world.

There were no announced plans for continued deployment of wind farms across the manufacturing facilities, but the company has been quite vocal about its energy goals. The news comes in the wake of environmental subjects of discussion known as the ‘Dieselgate’ fiasco.

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