Volkswagen has now agreed the largest project in its portfolio to date with the wind farm specialist WPD Onshore Aldermyrberget in Skellefteå, northern Sweden.
Volkswagen’s share of the wind farm generates some 100GWh of electricity, or enough for 27,000 households.
The move forms part of the car’s manufacturer’s plan to be fully net carbon neutral by 2050.
Its holistic decarbonisation program Way to Zero is expected to drive expansion of European wind farms and solar plants with around €40m up to 2025.
Besides the wind farm in Sweden, a new solar plant in Tramm-Göthen in northeastern Germany will go online at the beginning of 2022.
The joint project with RWE has around 420,000 solar modules and is the largest independent solar project in Germany.
It will be followed by about 20 further green electricity projects in countries such as Spain, the UK and Finland by 2025.
All the projects are to generate a combined total of some seven terawatt hours of additional green electricity.
That is equivalent to the capacity of more than 300 wind turbines and could cover the annual consumption of 600,000 households.
Volkswagen chief executive Ralf Brandstätter said: “Volkswagen is irreversibly on the ‘Way to Zero.’
“Decarbonisation and making mobility sustainable are at the focus of our activities.
“We are the first car maker to support the expansion of renewable energies on a large scale.
“Because e-mobility can only make an effective contribution to climate protection if electric cars are consistently charged with green electricity.”
Volkswagen’s chief strategy officer Andreas Walingen added: “We think and act regionally in our project decisions.
“Our focus is on investing in renewable energies in particular where electric vehicles from Volkswagen are especially popular among customers.
“Our stake in the wind farm in Sweden is therefore a logical step.
“With the biggest green electricity project in our portfolio to date, we are also living up to our responsibility as the market leader in electric vehicles in Sweden.”