Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Dr. Burns is the former Corporate Vice President of Research & Development and Planning at General Motors ( earlier post ). Sensor Fusion technology is a core component of delivering true autonomous vehicles and is crucial to helping the industry achieve the vision of Zero Autonomous Driving Accidents.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2011

SAE International will hold the 2011 Vehicle Battery Summit in Shanghai, 14-15 November 2011. Featuring nearly thirty speakers from nine different countries and delegates from 17 countries, last year’s Summit offered a global view of Li-ion battery technology and EV/PHEV industries worldwide.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Mitsubishi Corporation and Weyerhaeuser Company signed a Strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore the possibilities of collaborating in the biomass-to-energy business. The agreement signals the belief of both companies that there are existing and emerging opportunities in an expanding bio-energy market.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 17, 2014

For some companies in the auto industry, building cars to hit a target of 54.5 But to others, the EPA''s Corporate Average Fuel Economy targets agreed in 2011 aren''t simply achievable by that date, but could be reached today--and with today''s technology. mpg by 2025 may seem like a near-impossible task.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Faurecia signed an exclusive industrial partnership agreement with Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation to co-develop bioplastics designed for mass-production for use in automotive interior parts. In 2011, the Group posted total sales of €16.2 The joint development will start by modifying. billion ($22.5.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2012

Volvo Car Corporation urges the EU to coordinate incentives whilst supporting research and development. The European automotive industry risks losing the present technological leadership if this doesn’t happen. In the long-term, this jeopardizes our industry’s competitiveness and European jobs. —Stefan Jacoby.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2011

InvenTek Corporation, a developer of technology for low-cost, high-performance, large-format Li-ion batteries, will present at the 24 th NREL Industry Growth Forum (IGF) to be held in Denver, Colorado, on 8-10 November 2011. Inventek 42V module. Click to enlarge. The company is preparing to commercialize its technology.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Kyodo News reports that Fuji Heavy Industries may suspend production of its electric minivehicle, the Stella EV ( earlier post ). Fuji Heavy began selling the plug-in Stella electric vehicle to corporate customers and local governments in July 2009 with a sales target of 400 units by the end of March 2011.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2011

SGMW’s sales in the first nine months of 2011 were up 6.6% SGMW, a joint venture between GM China, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation Group (SAIC) and Wuling Motors, was launched in 2002. on an annual basis, taking its share of the mini-vehicle segment to 46%. It is based in Liuzhou, Guangxi.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Celanese Corporation, a global technology and specialty materials company, intends to construct manufacturing facilities in China and the US to utilize recently-developed advanced technology for the production of ethanol for chemical applications and other industrial uses. —Dave Weidman.

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EV Connect

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Since then, the market for electric vehicles has exploded, and with it the EV charging industry. This is leading to four dramatic shifts in the EV charging industry and opening the door for EV charging companies to have an even greater impact. This raises the ceiling for the EV charging industry dramatically.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2011

The AlixPartners 2011 Automotive Outlook finds that while automakers and suppliers have seen profits bounce back—North American original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) posted $12.5 million units in 2011 and only 13.6 AlixPartners also estimates that on-going unemployment and underemployment could cost the auto industry up to 1.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Peter Mertens, previously Senior Vice President Research & Development at Volvo Car Corporation in Göteborg, Sweden, as the new Board of Management Member for Technical Development at Audi. Mertens has exceptionally broad technical expertise and an international background in the automotive industry.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2009

Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., the maker of Subarus, is planning to introduce diesel light-duty vehicles in the Japan market as early as 2011. In the eco-car segment, the company will begin leasing the plug-in Stella electric car to corporate users in July. With the help of Toyota Motor Corp.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) has selected IHI Corporation and Toshiba Corporation as co-researchers in a project to develop and to demonstrate an underwater floating-type turbine system for ocean energy power generation. The project is slated to continue until FY 2017.

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Energy Power Powered Japan 210

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Compliance is now firmly anchored at Daimler and in its corporate culture, and in coordination with the Executive Committee of the Supervisory Board, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Daimler AG agreed to this request “in the interest of good governance in the German automotive industry.”.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The World Environment Center ( WEC ) will award its 30 th Annual Gold Medal for International Corporate Achievement in Sustainable Development to the Volkswagen Group. Recent recipients of the WEC Gold Medal Award are: Unilever (2013), IBM (2012), Nestlé (2011), Wal-Mart Stores (2010), The Coca-Cola Company (2009), and Marks & Spencer (2008).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2012

Industrial battery manufacturer EnerSys has completed the acquisition of the minority interest of EAS Germany GmbH previously owned by GAIA Akkumulatorenwerke GmbH (GAIA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Lithium Technology Corporation (LTC). Earlier post.).

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Lithium Ion Germany Batteries Battery 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Alcoa and China Power Investment Corporation (CPI) have finalized an agreement to establish a joint venture company to produce high-end fabricated aluminum products for the China market. The two partners had signed a Letter of Intent in September 2011. The new joint venture company, Alcoa CPI (China) Aluminum Investment Co.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2011

We are already seeing interest in our storage batteries from Russian Railways, the Moscow Metro, electric power networks and power generating companies, businesses in the military industrial complex, the public utilities sector, and telecommunications companies. —Liotech CEO Alexander Erokhin.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2012

A123 Systems, a developer and manufacturer of advanced lithium-iron phosphate batteries and systems, signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Wanxiang Group Corporation establishing the framework for a strategic investment through which Wanxiang would invest up to $450 million in A123. million (a decrease of 53% from $36.4

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2010

The Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RusNano) and Thunder Sky Group Limited (China) have signed an agreement establish the joint venture Lithium-ion Technology for the first Russia-based production of high-capacity lithium-ion batteries. Battery production will begin in 2011. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2012

Industrial battery manufacturer EnerSys has completed the acquisition of the minority interest of EAS Germany GmbH previously owned by GAIA Akkumulatorenwerke GmbH (GAIA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Lithium Technology Corporation (LTC). [Repost due to problems with Typepad system.]. Earlier post.).

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Lithium Ion Germany Batteries Battery 210

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2012

The new Silicon Valley-based program is designed to accelerate 10 select startups from various industries to help develop next-generation technologies that can be applied in the automotive domain. In 2011 alone, Plug and Play’s startups raised more than $350 million and went through M&A valued in excess of $500 million.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

The California Air Resources Board announced nearly $1 million in penalties against 3 companies for late or inaccurate reporting of their greenhouse gas emissions for 2011. Utilities and industrial facilities emitting more than 10,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually are required to report their greenhouse gas emissions.

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Las Vegas California Emissions Chevron 246

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

WiTricity, the industry pioneer in wireless power transfer (WPT), has acquired from Qualcomm Incorporated and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. In 2011, Qualcomm had acquired the technology and other assets of HaloIPT, a leading provider of wireless charging technology for electric road vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2018

China Energy was established in November 2017 by the merger of Shenhua Group, a world-class energy company, and China’s power giant China Guodian Corporation. As the leading global supplier of hydrogen to refineries to assist in producing cleaner burning transportation fuels, Air Products has rich experience in the hydrogen fueling industry.

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Hydrogen China Fuel Energy 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2012

Kureha Corporation, Itochu Corporation, Kuraray Co., and the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) have concluded an agreement intended to further accelerate the growth of Kureha Battery Materials Japan Co., Pattern diagram of Li-ion containment in CARBOTRON P. Click to enlarge. billion (US$256 million) in KBMJ.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Global R&D spending 2011. That $436 billion in forecasted spending is expected to be broken down in the following way: US Private Industry will spend by far the largest amount with a projection of $279.6 billion in R&D in 2012, up 3.75% over 2011. increasing tech transfer support from US national labs to industry.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2012

TMO Renewables (TMO), a developer of second-generation biofuels technology, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the authorities of Heilongjiang, China, to secure long term large volume biomass feedstock supply for future biofuel production facilities from Heilongjiang State Farm, the largest state-owned farming corporation in China.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The automotive industry has also begun installing in-cabin camera systems to help track what occupants are doing. But it’s also more lucrative info for an industry that now seems completely obsessed with data mining its own customers. Originally, the concept was floated as a way to safeguard from distracted driving.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2012

Alberta, Canada’s Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation is providing C$46 million (US$45 million) in funding to support six new carbon capture and storage and cleaner technology projects in the Canadian oil sands region. 10 million for Heavy Crude Quality Improvement in the Alberta Industrial Heartland Region.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2015

LanzaTech’s gas fermentation technology ( earlier post ) is at the core of the new Horizon2020 Steelanol project (2015-2018), which seeks to produce bioethanol via an innovative gas fermentation process using exhaust gases emitted by the steel industry. In 2011, LanzaTech began working with Harsco on a solution for steel mill waste gases.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2012

Akio Toyoda, President of Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), met with Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, at BMW Group headquarters in Munich for the signing. Mobility and its industrialization are in the midst of a technological shift. I believe this is the most decisive moment our industry has ever faced.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2017

Generation Investment Management LLP, a long-term, sustainability focused investment firm led the round, which was joined by BMW i Ventures, the corporate venture capital team founded by BMW Group in 2011. Due to Proterra's efforts, electric mass transit is overtaking fossil-fuel buses as the new standard.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Bruker Corporation has completed its acquisition of Center for Tribology, Inc. CETR, a privately held corporation located in Silicon Valley in Campbell, CA, was projected to have calendar year 2011 revenue greater than $10 million and EBITDA greater than $2 million. Earlier post.).

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Plug N Drive

JUNE 4, 2024

We believe in the power of celebrating those who educate and guide Canadians as we continue on the path to accessible, affordable, practical, and reliable EVs for drivers.” Nominations will be evaluated by an external judging committee comprised of Canadian EV experts drawn from industry, non-profit organizations, government, and the media.

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