Salzburg, 21 October 2020 – Volkswagen AG is the first automotive group to commit to the Paris Climate Agreement. By 2050 at the latest, Volkswagen intends to be completely carbon-neutral, that is, to not produce any harmful CO2. Porsche Holding Salzburg, a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG since 2011, has also set itself the aim of achieving this goal.

At a presentation of study results in Salzburg’s Mooncity on 29 September, the Austrian Minister of the Interior, Karl Nehammer, said that “e-mobility will also play an important role in the police force in the future.” As a modern public institution, the Ministry of the Interior, together with the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Porsche Austria, Allmobil and Wien Energie, therefore conducted a KIRAS study back in 2019, which analysed the potential of alternative drive forms for the police.”