Sustainability, electrification and corporate social responsibility
An Audi Q8 being charged at a charging station

Sustainable entrepreneurship at Audi Brussels
  • Employees of Audi Brussels plant a forest
  • Here we are in the paint department, you can see a Q8 immersed in a paint bath
  • A technician walking on the left side in a technical room.
  • Employees of Audi Brussels plant a forest

  • Biodiversity

    Audi is seeking to limit increasing land consumption worldwide and is rolling out projects to contribute to the preservation of biological diversity.

  • Water consumption

    Audi is making production processes and water cycles more efficient in response to increasing water scarcity and climate change.

  • Raw material efficiency

    In addition to careful, efficient and sensible use of raw materials, Audi strives for a circular economy. This makes waste another raw material for the production process.

  • Biodiversity

    Audi is seeking to limit increasing land consumption worldwide and is rolling out projects to contribute to the preservation of biological diversity.

How do we do that?

  • 100% of our energy and heat supply comes from green electricity and green gas. For example, the use of solar and wind energy, cogeneration and heat pumps.
  • This covers 95% of our CO2 footprint.
  • We compensate the remaining 5% with environmental projects such as a wind turbine project in India. 


Eco friendly energy scale
A colleague analyses a water sample

Electrification and optimisation for a sustainable product

Corporate social responsibility is not only about sustainable production processes, it is also about the products themselves. Our factory has been taking the lead in this area for many years. Today, we only make electric vehicles that do not emit CO2: the Q8 e-tron and the Q8 Sportback e-tron. In addition, we take into account the total life cycle of the vehicles in order to minimise the environmental impact per vehicle produced. This means that we continuously optimise our production processes so that we always use raw materials, energy and water as efficiently as possible.

Find out how our factory works here
  • In this photo, there is an insect hotel, overshadowed by a metal structure.
  • An aerial view of Audi Brussels
  • A forklift unloads a load from a goods train
  • In this photo, there is an insect hotel, overshadowed by a metal structure.

  • Biodiversity in and around Brussels

    At our factory site, we stimulate biodiversity with various initiatives. Think of local plantations of flower meadows, fruit trees and other trees, beehives, insect hotels and so on. But we also do our bit outside the company walls, for example with a plastic collector to recover floating dirt on the Brussels canal. Or how about our tasting oak forest in La Hulpe, just a stone’s throw from Brussels?

  • A healthy living environment

    Audi Brussels is committed to the well-being of local residents around our production site. That is why we regularly organise information sessions to inform local residents about the most important environmental and health themes and to answer all their questions. We also support charities and make a budget available for projects that improve social cohesion between all social groups.

  • Mobility in the capital

    For commuting, we encourage the use of collective buses and bicycles to reduce the traffic impact on our capital. We also strongly promote carpooling, a long-standing effort for which we won a Carpool Award in 2023. Logistically, we also take measures to reduce the environmental impact. This includes shipping parts and batteries by rail, as well as the use of electric transport vehicles in local urban traffic.

  • Biodiversity in and around Brussels

    At our factory site, we stimulate biodiversity with various initiatives. Think of local plantations of flower meadows, fruit trees and other trees, beehives, insect hotels and so on. But we also do our bit outside the company walls, for example with a plastic collector to recover floating dirt on the Brussels canal. Or how about our tasting oak forest in La Hulpe, just a stone’s throw from Brussels?
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