How Volkswagen Turns Tennessee Sunshine Into Passats | Autopia | Wired.com Volkswagen has been dedicated to getting solar power at its plants around the world, and now it can stake a claim to the single largest solar installation of any automotive manufacturing facility in the U.S. at the company’s compound in Chattanooga.
They are not the first, I believe Toyota already has something similar at the Tsutsumi Prius plant (refer At Tsutsumi We're Building a Better Tomorrow | news.toyota.com.au). In addition to that, they also have water recycling facility, making themselves almost self sufficient.
The Tundra plant here in Texas also has a large array. The article is not about being first but being the biggest in the US.
Honda's putting wind at their plant in MN and they aren't using extra land to do it. Another picture shows that VW doesn't have panels on their plant roofs so color me disappointed.
