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April 21, 2025
Innovating for Impact: Trane Technologies Helps Geely Bring Efficiency to their Electric Car Manufacturing
We’re helping solve our customers’ big challenges by innovating and delivering solutions that are better for their business and for the environment. Through our Gigaton Challenge, we aim to reduce 1 gigaton of GHG emissions from our customers’ footprints by 2030.
Project At-a-Glance:
The opportunity:
- Support Geely's sustainability goals
- Deliver comprehensive climate solutions to Geely’s manufacturing sites, including battery, cell and car production
The solution:
- Installed high-efficiency inverter centrifugal chillers in battery production facilities
- Applied low-GWP refrigerants and top-tier energy-efficient chillers with high cooling capacity to enhance the plant’s operational efficiency
Sustainability outcomes:
- High-efficiency inverter centrifugal chillers installed in most of the battery facilities can help Geely achieve an energy efficiency improvement of 8-15%
Trane Technologies has supplied high-efficiency climate control products and solutions to Geely Auto Group for nearly a decade, steadily shifting operations at their 12 production sites to a zero-carbon intelligent manufacturing model.
High efficiency of electric vehicle production
Based in Hangzhou, Geely is one of China’s top auto manufacturers. It supplies the Chinese economy with cutting-edge new energy vehicles (NEVs).
"Over the last several years, we have supplied many of the best-known Chinese automotive companies with our climate control systems," said Steve Yan, Vice President, Trane China. "Geely is our largest customer in the NEV space, and we have been happy to support their transition to more cost-effective and efficient operations with our high-efficiency solutions."
To date, Trane has supplied leading-edge chiller technology to most of Geely’s battery production facilities, including high-efficiency inverter centrifugal chillers that can improve plant energy efficiency by between 8 and 15 percent.
NEVs already go a long way to reducing atmospheric carbon. However, with these innovations and manufacturing upgrades, Geely will be able to make reductions in multiple dimensions and solidify its position as the automotive industry's sustainability leader.
Steve Yan
Vice President, Trane China
Supporting Geely’s energy and sustainability goals
Trane’s high-efficiency air conditioning units are capable of operating continuously year-round in Geely’s NEV plants, meeting the stringent humidity requirements of the battery and cell workshops, while also accelerating Geely’s zero-carbon transition. Significant progress has also been made in innovative carbon reduction technologies, including innovative thermal management systems and renewable energy and industrial electrification technologies, which will continue to help China's NEV ecosystem accelerate their zero-carbon transition. In recognition of these achievements, Trane was designated an outstanding vendor by Geely.
Trane equipment in a Geely manufacturing plant in China.
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