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Environmental Commendations.

Environmental Commendations.

Environmental Commendations.

Environmental Commendations.

Volkswagen uses Environmental Commendations to document the environmental progress achieved by its vehicles and technologies compared with predecessor or reference models. Our Environmental Commendations provide our customers, shareholders and other stakeholders inside and outside the company with information about how we are making our vehicles, components and production processes more environmentally compatible and what we have achieved in this respect.

On the following pages, you will find information on Environmental Commendations, Life Cycle Assessments and how they are produced. We explain which vehicle models and technologies have received the Commendation and what you yourself can do in addition to improve your own personal environmental performance.
Environmental Commendation for Polo

Environmental Commendation for Polo

Just in time for its market launch, the new Polo has been awarded an Environmental Commendation. In the Life Cycle Assessment on which the Commendation is based, Volkswagen documents how the new Polo not only presents lower fuel consumption and emissions than the previous generation but also represents a substantial improvement in environmental characteristics over the entire vehicle life cycle. After the Golf and the Passat, the Polo is the third Volkswagen model to receive an Environmental Commendation. The only other Commendation to date was awarded last year to the DSG dual-clutch gearbox.
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