In today’s world, climate change is now a fundamental reality that defines future visions as well as risk and opportunity perceptions of many countries and companies. And while managing the climate change crisis, business world is trying to find solutions to fulfill its responsibilities and switch to low-carbon economy. Accordingly such topics as digital transformation, greater use of distributed energy resources, and consuming natural resources responsibly and with the lowest environmental impact possible gain more and more importance.

Many actors in the automotive sector have made commitments to take necessary actions in this regard. In this context, we, as Tofaş, are trying to put into use the best practices to prevent climate change, and shape our plans to create a low-carbon future.

The steps we take in our transition to low-carbon economy and fight against climate change focus on three main topics:

• Reduction of emissions from our production activities
• Raising awareness of our supply chain regarding climate change and monitoring the related emissions
• Studies on energy efficiency and alternative fuels in vehicles

All relevant works carried out in Tofaş are managed by the Sustainability Committee and Sustainability Working Group, and the results are reported to the CEO. All of our stakeholders are informed about the significance we attach to these works, and we see all of them as our solution partners.

From a lifelong perspective, Tofaş’s and its stakeholders’ greatest impact on climate change is due to the use of vehicles. Accordingly, our stakeholders expect us to provide solutions to make their commercial operations and individual trips more sustainable. Therefore we focus on creating low-emission or alternative-fuel vehicles. We are aware of the fact that the process of transition to low-carbon economy is open for constant improvement, and that the bar should be set higher and higher in every step we take. We transparently inform our stakeholders about our achievements through our annual reports.

In 2020, Tofaş submitted its responses to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), and as a result of the assessment made, the company was included in the C and B bands in Climate Change and Water Management programs, respectively.

“21% of our R&D activities are about reducing emissions.”

Within the scope of transition to a low carbon economy,

• We support the following efforts of FCA, which were launched in accordance with its product strategies: increasing efficiency in conventional motor vehicles; expanding the use of alternative fuel systems, and developing electric and hybrid vehicles. In 2020 we worked on the following projects: 
• Studies on the development of a fully electric vehicle
• Development of a battery management system
• Integration of a wireless high-speed charging system (100kW) into a vehicle,
• Computer-aided analyses and simulations (HiL and SiL etc.)
• Studies on the development of a model-based embedded software
• Development of a control unit for electric vehicles
• Development and integration onto a vehicle of a 48 V Light hybrid system
• In-wheel driving systems application
• To reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting from production, we invest in energy efficiency in our production facilities.
• With our efforts to reduce fuel consumption in vehicles, we try to save energy and minimize the release of emissions.
• We carry out studies that will ensure energy efficiency in our distribution operations.
• Through customer information services as well as studies on the development of suppliers and dealers, we are working to disseminate the environmental and climate responsibility throughout our value chain.

“By 2024, we aim to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions resulting from production by 33% compared to 2011.”

For more information about Climate Change, you may visit tofas.com.tr/Surdurulebilirlik/CevreVeIklim or refer to the Tofaş Annual Report 2020, which is published interactively at ir.tofas.com.tr/2020/.