Honda ‘Inexperienced Seller’ Program Leverages 10 Years of Expertise to Lead Auto Business Towards Extra Environmentally Accountable Dealership Operations

Honda kicked off the Inexperienced Seller Program in 2011 to reveal a complete method to environmentally accountable operations that extends past its fuel-efficient automobiles and energy-efficient manufacturing operations. Now, this system contributes to Honda’s aim to attain carbon neutrality globally for its merchandise and operations by 2050.

On March 11 on the NADA Present 2022, Honda will current its Inexperienced Seller Program learnings throughout the panel “The Future Dealership is Inexperienced.” With the typical auto dealership anticipated to spend 15%-20% or extra on utility prices by 2030 and utility corporations transitioning their pricing plans to deal with peak demand and time-of-use, Honda encourages sellers to combine energy-efficient measures. 

“During the last decade Honda has gained unimaginable insights from serving to our car, powersports and energy gear dealerships of all sizes overcome varied challenges to scale back their vitality and water consumption, and we need to share this expertise with all sellers,” mentioned Annika Swenson, sustainability analyst at American Honda Motor Co., Inc. and supervisor of the Honda and Acura Environmental Management Packages. “As we work towards a carbon-free society, we hope Honda’s Inexperienced Seller Program gives a framework for fellow automakers that need to improve their sellers’ environmentally accountable operations.”

Douglas Greenhaus, vice chairman of Regulatory Affairs, Setting, Well being, and Security at NADA, provides: “Working with the Inexperienced Seller Program has left me with admiration for what Honda is doing to companion with its sellers on sustainability and environmental compliance. The Inexperienced Seller Program is exemplary in that it assists dealerships with a structured solution to scale back their environmental impacts and to construct greener futures of their communities.”

The voluntary Honda Inexperienced Seller Program is structured as a yearly evaluation to optimize current and new services within the areas of vitality efficiency, water effectivity and website practices. This system gives sellers with help for information assortment, environmental evaluation, knowledgeable recommendation, implementation and outcomes verification. Because the program’s launch, the typical dealership has diminished vitality use by 20%, saving a mean of $20,000 per 12 months and $34 million in vitality prices over the past 10 years.

Different excessive affect dealership enhancements embody:

• Excessive-efficiency water fixtures which have saved 1.2 billion gallons of water
• 283 LED lighting upgrades which might eat 60%-80% much less electrical energy
• 63 heating, air flow and air situation (HVAC) upgrades, which might scale back complete vitality required for heating and cooling by 25%
• 4.1 megawatts of photo voltaic panels put in to offset vitality use
• Electrical car chargers put in at 131 Inexperienced Sellers

Culver Metropolis Honda Achieves 100% Carbon Neutrality

The Honda Inexperienced Seller Program just lately acknowledged Culver Metropolis Honda in Culver Metropolis, California, as a carbon impartial dealership, which means it has offset 100% of its working emissions. A Inexperienced Seller since 2014, Culver Metropolis Honda put in an vitality administration system, inside and exterior LED lighting and controls, drought-resistant panorama to preserve water, high-efficiency water fixtures and a number of electrical car charging stations together with Degree 2 and DC quick chargers. By means of the Clear Energy Alliance, a Southern California electrical energy supplier providing clear renewable vitality, Culver Metropolis Honda additionally receives vitality from 100% renewable sources to offset its emissions.

“As a Inexperienced Seller, our focus 12 months over 12 months at Culver Metropolis Honda is to seek out methods through which we will measurably scale back our affect,” mentioned Hoss Haghighat, common supervisor at Culver Metropolis Honda. “We’ve seen continued advantages from the Inexperienced Seller Program, together with an enhanced model picture and elevated aggressive benefit locally, improved recruitment and retention of high quality workers, incomes eco-friendly incentives and rebates together with diminished waste and elevated preparedness for future rules.”

10-12 months Highlights of the Honda Inexperienced Seller Program

Over the previous decade the Inexperienced Seller Program has advanced to fulfill the wants of its sellers and Honda’s imaginative and prescient for a carbon-free society. Highlights of this system embody:

• In 2014, Honda publicly launched its free on-line Inexperienced Seller Information, a step-by-step useful resource for sellers to scale back their vitality and water consumption, whereas slicing overhead prices. Though it was created with dealerships in thoughts, any enterprise proprietor can use the great information to enhance the environmental efficiency of their operations.
• The Inexperienced Seller Program expanded to Latin America in 2017 and Canada in 2018, serving to to offset greater than 6,000 metric tons of CO₂e by way of vendor enhancements.
• On the 2019 Local weather Management Awards, the Local weather Registry and The Middle for Local weather and Power Options acknowledged the Inexperienced Seller Program with the Revolutionary Partnership Certificates for its exemplary management in decreasing carbon air pollution and addressing local weather change.
• Three Inexperienced Sellers – Brandfon Honda in Branford, Connecticut (car vendor); Japanese Gear in Derry, New Hampshire (energy gear vendor) and Rossi Honda in Vineland, New Jersey (car vendor) – earned the excellence of being electrical grid impartial. Because of this they produce as a lot or extra vitality from renewable vitality sources than they eat from their native electrical utilities over a one-year measurement interval.
• A brand new on-line Inexperienced Seller Financial savings Calculator permits sellers and companies so as to add up potential financial savings based mostly on vitality environment friendly upgrades.

Honda utilized the skilled engineering providers of Altura Associates, Inc. to finish dealership environmental assessments and to assist design the Honda and Acura Environmental Management Packages. For extra info, go to https://greendealer.honda.com/.

Honda Dedication to the Setting
Honda is dedicated to addressing world environmental and vitality points by striving to understand carbon neutrality for all merchandise and company actions by 2050. Honda proudly has the best fleet common gasoline financial system and lowest CO₂ emissions of any full-line automaker in America, in keeping with the U.S. Environmental Safety Company’s (EPA) newest information. To scale back CO₂ emissions even additional, Honda will try to make battery-electric and gasoline cell electrical automobiles signify 100% of auto gross sales within the U.S. and globally by 2040.

Honda is also working to scale back its enterprise operations environmental affect. To slash North American manufacturing operations’ CO₂ emissions, Honda has entered into long-term digital energy buy agreements (VPPAs) for renewable wind and solar energy masking greater than 60% of the electrical energy that Honda makes use of in North America. This permits the corporate to completely offset the remaining carbon intensive grid-supplied electrical energy utilized in its Ohio, Indiana, and Alabama car manufacturing operations. Honda additionally promotes environmentally accountable enterprise practices with its suppliers and retail vendor companions throughout North America.

Be taught extra at https://csr.honda.com/setting/na-environmental-report/.

SOURCE American Honda Motor Co., Inc.