Mercedes-Benz cars turn to blockchain for sustainable mobility

In its efforts to foster sustainable mobility, the German motor giant Mercedes-Benz has joined forces with London-based blockchain company Circulor to launch a blockchain pilot experiment to track CO2 emissions efficiently, said the official media release on 30th January 2020. In line with Startup Autobahn, a platform that offers opportunities to young tech companies in the automobile sector, the project will leverage blockchain to attain transparency in CO2 emissions in the cobalt supply chain. Utilizing the power of blockchain, the company will monitor the emission levels of different climate-impacting gases, and then track cobalt which makes way into the supply