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07/17/2024
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Audi e-tron Sportback
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Since the December 2022, Audi Brussels has been manufacturing the Audi Q8 e-tron and the Audi Q8 Sportback e-tron. Previously, Audi’s first all-electric model, the Audi e-tron was made here. At the start of 2020, it began series production of the Audi e-tron Sportback. Furthermore, the Brussels plant is the world’s first carbon-neutral high-volume production facility in the premium segment, as certified by independent experts.

Audi Brussels has achieved this primarily through renewable energy and concentrates its efforts in three main spheres of action: The first sphere of action is the switch to green electricity, which was accomplished in 2012. To this end, Audi Brussels installed the largest photovoltaic power plant (107,000 square meters) in the region on its premises.

The second sphere of action involved heating the location with renewable energy. Both these spheres together cover about 95 percent of its energy needs. Emissions that the company cannot yet avoid by means of renewable energy sources are offset using carbon credit projects (third sphere of action).

Audi has built up a wide variety of skills and expertise inside the company for the Audi e-tron and developed both the battery technology and the powertrain itself. The production team in Brussels restructured and re-implemented many manufacturing steps.

Production and logistics

  • For production of the batteries for the e-tron and the e-tron Sportback, the Brussels plant set up its own battery manufacturing facilities.
  • Its Automotive Park logistics and supplier center is connected to the factory buildings via a bridge. It provides the infrastructure for the supply of materials to the Brussels plant. Every day, trucks and trains deliver over 3,500 different parts and components from more than 500 supplier companies.
  • Smart logistics – this includes automated material transports, but even more importantly digitalized processes. Since the start of 2018, Audi has been using driverless transport vehicles (DTVs) in its production buildings.

Analytics center and pilot hall

Audi Brussels possesses a modern analytics center and a pilot hall for prototypes and pre-production models. This connects the production and technical development areas of the plant and ensures the high quality of the vehicles made here.