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SEAT starts installing solar panels on Martorell factory roof

As we announced, SEAT is trying to maximize the possibilities of the sunny Mediterranean climate for its factory in Martorell, near Barcelona, Spain. SEAT's plan is ambitious, and could allow the plant to be able to function almost off the grid. The factory will use 320,000 m2 of solar panels on the roof, the equivalent of 10 MW of electric power. Annually, the plant could generate 13 million kWh. That's enough to power 3,000 homes and will save up to 6,200 metric tons of CO2. The first project will start working next year, and will be ... Read more →

Austrian hyper-miler beats his own record when driving a Seat Ibiza Ecomotive to 100 mpg Xavier Navarro

Last May, Austrian Gerhard Plattner took a Seat Ibiza Ecomotive and drove it from the factory where it was built, in Martorell (near Barcelona), Spain, and drove it a distance of 970.6 miles using ...

Frankfurt preview: SEAT extends Ecomotive line, León CO2 emissions drop to 99 g/km Xavier Navarro

Along with the arrival of the next-generation TDI engines to the Spanish automaker SEAT's lineup, the company's Ecomotive high-milers get updated with an all-new 1.6-liter common-rail diesel to go ...

REPORT: how the Up! might find a home in the new array of VW-group offerings Xavier Navarro

VW Up! concept - Click above for high-res image gallery Regular readers are surely aware of the new city car model that Volkswagen is preparing called the Up! Until now, European shoppers looking ...

Seat Brisa and Duna concepts point the way to solar power Jeremy Korzeniewski

At this point, vehicles covered in solar panels aren't yet able to offer a viable alternative to the fossil fuel-powered cars and trucks that we currently rely on. There's hope that this fact ...

Austrian hyper-miler gets 81.1 mpg in Seat Ibiza Ecomotive 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

Once upon a time when drivers went driving across multiple countries, it was in pursuit of doing it in the least amount of time. These days, it seems to be just as often that drivers are still going for the least, but now it's about minimizing fuel consumption. After a team of drivers ran over ...

New TDI engines spread through VW family 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

The all-new generation of Volkswagen TDI engines, fitted with common-rail technology instead of pump-injectors, is spreading through the corporate family. Next June, Seat is getting the new 1.6-liter diesel engines under the hoods of the Ibiza. The new 90hp version, which is the detuned version ...

Audi announces production of the Q3, looking for low-CO2 help 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

Audi's new subcompact crossover, the Q3, will be built in Seat's plant in Martorell, near Barcelona, in Spain. After a €100 million subsidy from Spanish institutions, the plant will be able to keep 1,200 jobs. Production will begin in 2011 with an annual production capacity of up to 80,000 ...

Seat León FR TDI: heaps of diesel power without the VW price 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

If you think that the Volkswagen Golf GTD is a tad expensive, take a look at the León FR TDI. VW's Spanish company, Seat, offers most of the Golf GTD's package, including the same engine, a 2.0-liter unit able to produce 170hp, at a slightly lower price. The sad part is that this engine, ...

VW Up! may be too expensive for ?koda and Seat 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

Volkswagen's NSF (new small family) concepts, the up! series, has been on our radar since appearing at auto shows in late 2007. Last fall, VW committed to bringing these vehicles to production models, and we heard that the leading candidate for a production site was the Škoda factory in ...

Geneva 2009: Seat Leon Ecomotive with 99 g/km of CO2 and 62 mpg U.S. 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

Amid all of the fanciful green concept cars debuting in Geneva like the Rinspeed iChange and the Magna Steyr Mila EV comes something a little more standard looking: the SEAT Leon Ecomotive concept. As you can see from the large lettering all over the car, this concept seats four while emitting ...

Spain announces $5.3 billion in aid for domestic auto industry 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2009 Seat Ibiza Ecomotive The United States, the United Kingdom and France have already announced plans to stimulate the ailing automakers and suppliers that do business in their countries, so it's not too surprising to hear that Spain has joined in the ...

Rendered speculation: SEAT may get its own variant of BlueSport roadster 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

It looks like there may be at least three different variations of the mid-engine roadster that Volkswagen introduced at the Detroit Auto Show last week. The concept BlueSport is based on a new modular architecture Volkswagen is developing that will allow for multiple configurations. If the car is ...

Seat introduces Len Twin Drive Ecomotive hybrid concept 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

SEAT has introduced a new concept, based on the current Seat León (which itself has a lot in common with the Audi A3) that sports an all-new plug-in hybrid powertrain. The model, called the SEAT León Twin Drive Ecomotive, has two driving modes: the car is equipped with a ...

New SEAT Ibiza Ecomotive gets updated, moves abroad 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

Click on image above for a high-res gallery of the 2009 Seat Ibiza Ecomotive It's time for SEAT to launch the Ecomotive version of the latest Ibiza. The green Ibiza has been on sale since January in Spain and will soon make it to the rest of the European markets. The engine - VW's 1.4-liter TDI ...

SEAT might have a hybrid car soon 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click on image above for a high-res gallery of the '09 Seat Ibiza Although we shouldn't be holding our breaths for this, Ramón Paredes, a VP from Volkswagen-owned SEAT, gave a hint that the Spanish marque could be selling a hybrid car soon. SEAT shares all its powertrains with the rest ...

The SEAT Ibiza Ecomotive gets Ecobest 2008 award 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click on image for a full gallery of the 2008 Seat Ibiza Ecomotive The so-called "Emerging markets" on the East side of Europe have their own automotive awards. Which countries are we speaking about here? Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, ...

Germany's top 20 lowest CO2-emitting models 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

As most of our readers probably know by now, the "green" credentials for a car in Europe are often based on how much CO2 the car produces. In fact, most of the new taxes applied to cars depend on this indicator, which is also connected to the car's fuel efficiency. Therefore, it is key for European ...

Diesel powered SEAT Leon wins World Touring Car Championship 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

In 2008, the Volkswagen group expanded its diesel racing efforts beyond the already successful Audi R10 TDI into smaller bore classes. Here in North America, we had the VW Jetta TDI cup. Elsewhere, the Spanish branch of the Group, known as SEAT, ran a competition version of the Leon TDI in the ...

SEAT supports climate change meeting - and Al Gore 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Last week, Al Gore was being chauffeured around the Netherlands by Audi. This week, another company (or, more accurately, another part of the same company) is trying to tie itself to the former Vice President. SEAT used the Alhambra Ecomotive in its "first official function" by driving around ...

New Seat Exeo gets common-rail diesel technology 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

SEAT has introduced its latest sedan, called Exeo, in Paris. This is the first model in years that doesn't have a name from a Spanish town but it still might seem familiar to you: it's a rebadged previous-generation Audi A4. Hey, Europeans can rebadge like the best of the Chinese, after all! ...

The Seat Ibiza Ecomotive wins the Eco Tour 2008 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The EcoTour was a 7-day tour through nine European countries with 42 of the most fuel-efficient cars. The tour started 12 September in Barcelona, Spain, and finished 19 September in The Hague in the Netherlands. The target was burning the least fuel possible during the seven days. There were two ...

Seat Ibiza Ecomotive gets "most ecological vehicle award" in Germany 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The Verkehrs-Club Deutschland has declared the Seat Ibiza Ecomotive to be the most environmentally friendly car in Germany based on its CO2 emissions. The Ibiza actually shares the honor with its sibling, the Volkswagen Polo BlueMotion. The little Seat uses its 80 hp 1.4L turbodiesel to earn a ...

SEAT gets award for reducing road traffic, using more rail 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Typically automakers focus on trying to put customers behind the wheel of their products. SEAT, the Spanish branch of the Volkswagen Group has just received an award for reducing road traffic. Thanks to a new rail line from SEAT's Martorell plant to the port of Barcelona, the company has reduced ...

Seat Ibiza gets 5 starts in EuroNCAP crash test 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Although you can no longer say that the new Ibiza is small, it still plays a role in the European supermini segment. It's about 4-meters long, about the size of a Golf II series. Nevertheless, it's good to know that you don't have to be a big kid to be safe. The Spanish-German Ibiza got 5 stars at ...

Seat unveils the new Ibiza and the Alhambra Ecomotive in Madrid Auto Show 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Although most of the attention at the Seat display at the Madrid Auto Show was drawn to the new Seat Ibiza (see it here), Seat also introduced the Seat Alhambra Ecomotive. The Alhambra is the badge-engineered version of the Volkswagen Sharan, which has a BlueMotion version as well. The Alhambra ...

Environmentalists and Consumer Unions protest misleading CO2 figures in ads 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

If you check any European car ad, you will see in tiny letters at the bottom the car's consumption and CO2 production figures. This information is a mandatory requirement in Spain. But, according to Ecologistas en Acción and the Unión de Consumidores de España (UCE), an ...

The new Ibiza: Official pictures and video 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Say hello to the new version of the Seat Ibiza. The Spanish-made subcompact comes with a completely new platform and a complete set of powertrains with green credentials: all gasoline-powered versions produce less than 160 g/km CO2 while all diesels are below the 120 g/km figure. Missing from this ...

SEAT to race a diesel in the British Touring Car Championship 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

SEAT, the Spanish-based division of the Volkswagen group, started running the Leon TDI in Touring Car competition in mid-2007 and this weekend the hatchback will make its debut in Britain. At this weekend's British Touring Car Championship opener at Brands Hatch, veteran drivers Jason Plato and ...

Geneva 08: SEAT launches Bocanegra concept 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The Spanish Volkswagen subsidiary Seat has launched a new concept of a vehicle which, although it won't hit the showrooms, gives us cues of Seat's future design plans. The Bocanegra (literally "Blackmouth") is a sporty coupé that foreshadows what the upcoming Ibiza (to be replaced next year) ...

Seat captures opening rounds of WTCC with Leon TDI 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The opening rounds of the World Touring Car Championshio took place last week in Brazil and Seat won both races with drivers Yvan Muller and Gabrieli Tarquini. Spain-based Seat is a division of Volkswagen, and like other brands in the group they are pushing diesel engines in motorsports as well as ...

Me too: SEAT manufacturing plant also installing photovoltaic panels on roof 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

SEAT (a brand that belongs to Volkswagen) has announced the installation of photovoltaic panels on the roof of its Martorell (near Barcelona) factory in Spain. The company expects this move will save up to 11,700 tons of CO2 from being released to the atmosphere. The panels have a power of 8.5 MW ...


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