SDG 13 - CLIMATE PROTECTION
With our measures, we are contributing to the thirteenth goal of the United Nations 2030 Agenda.
Timotheus Höttges, Chairman of the Board of Management, Deutsche Telekom AG
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In ten minutes, electric cars can be charged for a range of around 100 kilometers at a Comfort Charge quick charging station.
JOY OF PARKING
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Thanks to autonomous vehicles, traffic could become safer and driving more relaxed. For people experiencing certain limitations it would become easier to be mobile.
Self-driving cars – just a few years ago, that was still solely in the realm of science fiction films. In the meantime, the first semi-automated vehicles are already on our roads. And fully autonomous driving
All this requires fast, secure and reliable communication networks. The vehicle requires constant data updates for navigation, such as detailed street maps. It also needs updates in the event of unexpected traffic situations, such as traffic jams, rain or black ice. Today’s LTE network is already well equipped for that, but the new 5G mobile standard offers even more possibilities. We plan to equip all major traffic routes such as highways, main roads and railways with the 5G network by 2025. An initial test track for autonomous driving has been set up in Berlin, and we are involved in the project.
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At Deutsche Telekom in Germany, home office regulations were in place for almost 40,000 employees in 2019.
With some 37,500 cars, Deutsche Telekom has one of the largest vehicle fleets in Germany. But the trend is downward – our fleet is shrinking by around 1,000 vehicles each year, since we have fewer maintenance issues thanks to modern technologies. In addition, we are using more efficient vehicles and increasingly turning to alternative drive systems powered by electricity or natural gas. These efforts have allowed us to reduce our fleet’s CO2 emissions by more than 40 percent since 2008. Our vision is to achieve sustainable and guaranteed mobility for all employees at the Group. One element in this is the intelligent networking of existing and new forms of mobility. For instance, we are working on combining company and public transport in the future on one digital platform for employees commuting between home and work (“Mobility as a Service”)
. In addition, our “Green Car Policy” creates incentives for drivers of company cars to increasingly select smaller, more efficient cars. And we are making it possible for our employees to leave their cars at home as often as possible: for instance, with discount season tickets for local public transport or through our salary sacrifice bikes-for-work scheme .