"Do you know where all the parts on your car come from, and how they got there? And no, I don't mean "from" as in "America" or "Germany" or "South Korea." I mean, who made those parts, out of what, and how much energy did it really take to put that part onto your shiny new car? I certainly don't know that."
"The EV's iconic "kidney grille" is the first BMW part where the carmaker understands the entire carbon footprint through the entire supply chainfrom the genesis of the raw materials that compose it all the way to how it ends up on the final product. BMW calls this "the digitalization of the supply chain." It's a dense name, to be sure, but it has an important purpose, and that's to fully understand the whole car's carbon footprint."
""We really followed through the whole supply chain, right to the raw materials, the exact product's carbon footprint," Lang said. "And we've now got a digital supply chain, which adds up the product's carbon footprint through the supply chain." It's the start of a whole process at BMW designed to better understand and reduce carbon emissions across the board."
BMW traced the entire carbon footprint of the iX3 kidney grille from raw material origins through final installation, creating a 'digitalization of the supply chain.' The digital supply chain aggregates product-level emissions data across suppliers to produce an exact carbon profile rather than relying on industry averages. The initiative began with the iX3 grille and will expand to other models and components. The system links material provenance, production energy use, and logistics into a single, auditable emissions tally to better understand and reduce lifecycle emissions.
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