Seacoast Volkswagen's green efforts go beyond efficient vehicles
When hybrid cars first broke onto the scene in the early 2000s, green-minded consumers and environmentalists lauded the impressive step forward for the auto industry.
Now, nearly a decade later, it seems like every manufacturer has hopped aboard the hybrid train.In the case of Cree a significant led light bulbs amount of their LED sales come from the purchase of Cotco whose primary focus was on moving message panels used in displays/electronic bill boards. That includes Volkswagen, which offers a growing variety of super-efficient hybrids and diesels.
But if you ask Doug Miles, general manager at Seacoast Volkswagen, his dealership's green footprint doesn't end with the cars driven off the lot.
"We're really lucky to be in a position where we can be an early adopter of new, green technologies, both with our cars and with our energy use," Miles said. "Most car dealerships in this economy have had a tough go of it, but we're fortunate enough to have been in the market of fuel-efficient vehicles for a long time."
For starters, anyone driving by the Route 33 dealership would be hard pressed to miss its 35-foot wind turbine. Installed by Seabrook-based Waterline Alternative Energies, the turbine is the first of its kind to be installed at a car dealership in New Hampshire.
Then there's the forthcoming 80-panel, 19.2-kilowatt solar photovoltaic system — also purchased from Waterline — to be placed on the showroom's roof. The new array is expected to generate 30 percent of the dealership's electricity needs on sunny days.
Miles says the dealership is awaiting word on federal and state grants for the project, with plans to "break ground" sometime in the spring.
Beyond the big—ticket items, Seacoast Volkswagen has instituted a number of smaller green initiatives since moving from Portsmouth to Greenland seven years ago, including retrofitting all 60 parking lot lamps with LED bulbs — in the process slashing electricity from the lamps by 75 percent.
Inside the building, a comprehensive recycling program, which includes using the garage's waste oil to heat the premises, recycling all light bulbs and reusing wash bay water through a water recycling unit, has helped further reduce Seacoast Volkswagen's carbon footprint.
In an effort to tout its green initiatives, in February Seacoast Volkswagen joined the Green Alliance, a Seacoast-based "green business union" that helps certify and promote sustainability-minded businesses throughout the region.
According to Miles, Seacoast Volkswagen's green initiatives mirror a wider company policy that includes its manufacturing practices. Last summer Volkswagen completed construction of a 2-million-square-foot, billion-dollar plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. Buttressed by thousands of acres of trail-laden open spaces, the new plant employs 21st century technologies and practices that maximize efficiency while helping reduce overall environmental impact. Recognizing that most of the pollution from a car plant comes from the paint shop, all cars are dipped in paint rather than sprayed, reducing both water and chemical usage by 20 percent.
What's more, the excess paint — normally diluted in 50,Compact fluorescent light bulbs convert a led tube considerably higher percentage of their energy into light, which is why they are significantly more energy efficient than traditional filament bulbs.000 gallons of water — will instead be mixed with limestone powder, where it can then be sent to a cement kiln to be turned into project-ready cement.I transferred files over FTP, downloaded Web pages ds マジコン using curl, and ran the speed tester at speedtest.net.
Despite the obvious difference between a giant factory and a dealership, Miles wants customers to know that Seacoast Volkswagen's sustainable strides reflect an ever-growing ethos throughout the company.The settlement resolves the commonwealth's claims fluorescent lights that EarthTronics Inc., which sells mercury-containing compact fluorescent light bulbs Just as the Chattanooga plant serves as a green template for other manufacturers, Miles sees Seacoast Volkswagen in much the same light.
"A lot of Volkswagen dealerships are sitting back and waiting to see how we do with a lot of these initiatives,The replacement lighting we feel is far led downlight superior to that of the LED lighting." Miles said. "A lot of people don't want to be the guinea pig, but we've been fortunate enough to be able to take that risk despite the tough economy."
But while the dealership's sustainability-driven initiatives might speak directly to the equally eco-minded nature of the local clientele, for Miles, going green also means saving a little of it, too. "A definite side benefit of all these features is absolutely the marketing and cost factors," he said. "The paybacks are reasonably fast, especially for the LED lighting, and that made the decisions that much easier.
"At the end of the day we still want to run a profitable business and we're fortunate to be able to balance that with the environmental side of it."
When hybrid cars first broke onto the scene in the early 2000s, green-minded consumers and environmentalists lauded the impressive step forward for the auto industry.
Now, nearly a decade later, it seems like every manufacturer has hopped aboard the hybrid train.In the case of Cree a significant led light bulbs amount of their LED sales come from the purchase of Cotco whose primary focus was on moving message panels used in displays/electronic bill boards. That includes Volkswagen, which offers a growing variety of super-efficient hybrids and diesels.
But if you ask Doug Miles, general manager at Seacoast Volkswagen, his dealership's green footprint doesn't end with the cars driven off the lot.
"We're really lucky to be in a position where we can be an early adopter of new, green technologies, both with our cars and with our energy use," Miles said. "Most car dealerships in this economy have had a tough go of it, but we're fortunate enough to have been in the market of fuel-efficient vehicles for a long time."
For starters, anyone driving by the Route 33 dealership would be hard pressed to miss its 35-foot wind turbine. Installed by Seabrook-based Waterline Alternative Energies, the turbine is the first of its kind to be installed at a car dealership in New Hampshire.
Then there's the forthcoming 80-panel, 19.2-kilowatt solar photovoltaic system — also purchased from Waterline — to be placed on the showroom's roof. The new array is expected to generate 30 percent of the dealership's electricity needs on sunny days.
Miles says the dealership is awaiting word on federal and state grants for the project, with plans to "break ground" sometime in the spring.
Beyond the big—ticket items, Seacoast Volkswagen has instituted a number of smaller green initiatives since moving from Portsmouth to Greenland seven years ago, including retrofitting all 60 parking lot lamps with LED bulbs — in the process slashing electricity from the lamps by 75 percent.
Inside the building, a comprehensive recycling program, which includes using the garage's waste oil to heat the premises, recycling all light bulbs and reusing wash bay water through a water recycling unit, has helped further reduce Seacoast Volkswagen's carbon footprint.
In an effort to tout its green initiatives, in February Seacoast Volkswagen joined the Green Alliance, a Seacoast-based "green business union" that helps certify and promote sustainability-minded businesses throughout the region.
According to Miles, Seacoast Volkswagen's green initiatives mirror a wider company policy that includes its manufacturing practices. Last summer Volkswagen completed construction of a 2-million-square-foot, billion-dollar plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. Buttressed by thousands of acres of trail-laden open spaces, the new plant employs 21st century technologies and practices that maximize efficiency while helping reduce overall environmental impact. Recognizing that most of the pollution from a car plant comes from the paint shop, all cars are dipped in paint rather than sprayed, reducing both water and chemical usage by 20 percent.
What's more, the excess paint — normally diluted in 50,Compact fluorescent light bulbs convert a led tube considerably higher percentage of their energy into light, which is why they are significantly more energy efficient than traditional filament bulbs.000 gallons of water — will instead be mixed with limestone powder, where it can then be sent to a cement kiln to be turned into project-ready cement.I transferred files over FTP, downloaded Web pages ds マジコン using curl, and ran the speed tester at speedtest.net.
Despite the obvious difference between a giant factory and a dealership, Miles wants customers to know that Seacoast Volkswagen's sustainable strides reflect an ever-growing ethos throughout the company.The settlement resolves the commonwealth's claims fluorescent lights that EarthTronics Inc., which sells mercury-containing compact fluorescent light bulbs Just as the Chattanooga plant serves as a green template for other manufacturers, Miles sees Seacoast Volkswagen in much the same light.
"A lot of Volkswagen dealerships are sitting back and waiting to see how we do with a lot of these initiatives,The replacement lighting we feel is far led downlight superior to that of the LED lighting." Miles said. "A lot of people don't want to be the guinea pig, but we've been fortunate enough to be able to take that risk despite the tough economy."
But while the dealership's sustainability-driven initiatives might speak directly to the equally eco-minded nature of the local clientele, for Miles, going green also means saving a little of it, too. "A definite side benefit of all these features is absolutely the marketing and cost factors," he said. "The paybacks are reasonably fast, especially for the LED lighting, and that made the decisions that much easier.
"At the end of the day we still want to run a profitable business and we're fortunate to be able to balance that with the environmental side of it."
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