Mercedes share significant carbon footprint savings as F1 team successfully power European season on biofuels

Mercedes have revealed that they successfully powered their European season on HVO100 biofuel, achieving 98% coverage in race and marketing trucks and generators, and saving more than 500 tonnes of CO2e.

Working with Title and Technical Partner PETRONAS and their logistics partners, Mercedes set a target to extend their use of biofuels during the nine 2024 European races.

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Their aforementioned savings – despite the current complexities of the supply chain across Europe – are an uplift from the 74% biofuel coverage achieved over the 2023 campaign’s European leg.

It underlines Mercedes’s ambition to become “one of the most sustainable global professional sports teams” and takes them closer to goal target for Race Team Control Net Zero by 2030, while forming part of their wider sustainable fuels strategy.

As F1 scale their sustainable centralised power solution for European races in 2025, Mercedes will continue to drive use of sustainable fuels and make progress in extending biofuel use to their flyaway races next season.

“Powering our European season on biofuels is a first for our team and sport, and I hope what we have achieved, with the invaluable support, expertise and supply capability of our Title and Technical Partner PETRONAS, will inspire others to follow,” said Mercedes Team Principal and CEO Toto Wolff.

“We look forward to now challenging ourselves to expand the use of sustainable fuel in our logistics beyond the European races and continuing to prepare for the introduction of the fully sustainable fuel which will power the 2026 cars on track.”

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Alice Ashpitel, Head of Sustainability at the Mercedes F1 team, added: “We’re a team of problem solvers and pursuing sustainable high performance is always front of mind.

“Optimising our logistics operations and achieving almost total biofuel coverage reflects our team’s significant sustainability efforts and it’s a real inspiration to see the reduction of our impact at the track and on the road. We continue to address the largest sources of our emissions, and how we transport the team’s freight and power our operations across the globe remain key focus areas.”

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