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April 21, 2025
Innovating for Impact: Trane Technologies Helps Geely Make the Shift to Electrification in Manufacturing
Trane Technologies and Geely Auto Group, China's leading NEV manufacturer, implemented high-efficiency climate control systems and digital solutions across 12 production sites.
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
- Developed the "Future Factory" initiative to increase automation and digitization
Sustainability outcomes:
- Advanced implementation of thermal management systems and electrified heating technologies to accelerate zero-carbon transition
- 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.
Electrification 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
Significant progress has also been made in other facets of plant operations, 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.
Leading by example in our own operations
But that’s not all. Trane Technologies has also been working to increase the overall efficiency of our own operations in the Asia Pacific region with innovative digital solutions designed to streamline and enhance plant operations.
The centerpiece of the effort is the "Future Factory" initiative, created to increase automation and digitization. Innovations made by Future Factory have already been incorporated into several Trane solutions.
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