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NOVEMBER 25, 2014

The 300 millionth motorcycle: 2015 Gold Wing 40. Production outside of Japan began in Belgium in 1963, and since then Honda has been expanding its local production to many countries around the world. The 300 million-unit milestone was reached in the 66 th year since Honda began motorcycle production in 1949 with the Dream Type D.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Major cathode material producer Pulead (China) and phosphate leader Prayon (Belgium) have entered into an agreement to form a joint venture for the manufacture and sale of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) under licence from LiFePO 4 +C Licensing LLC.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2016

Six Tucson FCEVs have been delivered since February, 2015 in British Columbia. Hydrogenics has manufacturing sites in Germany, Belgium and Canada and service centers in Russia, China, India, Europe, the US and Canada.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

In France, which liberalized the taxi market in 2015, the number of reported PHV drivers doubled in three years (from more than 15,000 in 2016 to 30,000 in 2019). A broad coalition of green NGOs in the US, Germany, France, the UK, The Netherlands and Belgium has just launched the #TrueCostOfUber campaign.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Imec also announced that it has started to upscale the materials and processes in a pilot line for fabrication of solid-state pouch cells at the EnergyVille Campus in Genk (Belgium) and is set-up in collaboration with the University of Hasselt. The different curves refer to different loadings.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2016

Following the United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany and Belgium, Norway is the 5 th European country to start selling the fuel cell sedan. Toyota started commercializing the Mirai in 2015 and to date has delivered cars in Japan, California, Germany, UK, Denmark and Belgium with the Netherlands and Sweden to follow later this year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2016

Toyota will launch the Mirai fuel cell vehicle in Sweden and Norway this summer, following other European countries that have introduced the Toyota Mirai in 2015 (UK, Germany and Denmark) or early 2016 (Belgium). The Mirai launched in Japan in December 2014 and in the US in 2015. The Netherlands will follow later this year.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

The facility is expected to be operational in the second half of year 2015 and will deliver rosin to Lawter facility in Kallo, Belgium. Raw tall diesel from SunPine is used as raw material in the production of Preem’s Evolution Diesel product. SunPine is owned by Kiram, Preem, Sveaskog, Södra and Lawter.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2016

over the first three months of 2015, according to JATO Dynamics. share this segment registered in March 2015 and during the first quarter of last year. However, it was also the brand to post the highest market share drop, with its March share reaching its lowest since September 2015 at 10.29% (vs. 11.97% in Q1 2015).

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AUGUST 11, 2015

The first five production Toyota Mirai fuel cell vehicles ( earlier post ) for Europe were unloaded in Bristol, UK and Zeebrugge, Belgium, respectively on 8 and 10 August. Toyota is targeting annual sales of 50-100 units per year in 2015 and 2016. —Karl Schlicht, Executive Vice-President Toyota Motor Europe.

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JUNE 26, 2017

In 2015 Leclanché unveiled its first all-electric bus in Belgium. The global e-bus fleet comprised approximately 173,000 vehicles in 2015 of which 170,000 were in China. —Anil Srivastava, CEO of Leclanché.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2010

A new report from Frost & Sullivan, Implementation Roadmap of CO 2 Tax Banding in European Countries and Impact Analysis on Powertrain and Green Technology Adoption , finds that about 80% of the European vehicle sales is expected to be in the less than 150 g/km CO 2 emission band by 2015. Hariher Balasubramanian.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2016

Belgium-based VRT News has charged that Opel dealers have been modifying the software in the Zafira Tourer 1.6 diesel to change the emission behavior of the vehicles. In addition, Opel announced in December that the company is voluntarily taking the next step to meet future emissions guidelines, both on CO 2 and NO x.

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JANUARY 20, 2016

The site in Belgium will thus become a key plant for electric mobility at the Volkswagen Group. The Audi e-tron quattro concept study that was presented at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2015 provides a clear indication of the final production version. The plant will also produce its own battery packs. Rupert Stadler.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Imec, in collaboration with Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), has introduced the first 79 GHz radar transmitter implemented in plain digital 28nm CMOS. After developing receiver functionality (by end 2014), imec aims at building a complete multi-antenna lab prototype by the end of 2015.

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JUNE 10, 2016

As of 2010, all Member States are required to meet their emission ceilings, but preliminary 2014 data and final data for 2010-13 in the EEA’s new briefing NEC Directive reporting status 2015 shows that a number of countries consistently breached their limits for NO x , NMVOCs and NH 3 in all these years.

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MAY 17, 2012

A key factor is International Maritime Organization Tier III emissions standards, which are slated to take effect in 2015-2016. Currently projects underway in Belgium, Sweden, Finland, South Korea, Singapore, Japan and elsewhere have made efforts to offer LNG bunkering and incentives to support LNG-fueled marine technology.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2012

WABCO Vehicle Control Systems—founded in the US in 1869 as Westinghouse Air Brake Company and now a leading Belgium-based global supplier of technologies and control systems for heavy commercial vehicles—also offers an electric air brake compressor: the E-Comp electrically-driven compressor.

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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. million) project is coordinated by steelmaker Arcelormittal Belgium NV.

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APRIL 26, 2013

At Ford’s Lommel Proving Ground in Belgium, Ford Motor Company and Schaeffler demonstrated the Fiesta-based eWheelDrive car. Ford said it will work with Schaeffler and other partners on a follow-up research project, including producing two more drivable vehicles by 2015. Fiesta eWheelDrive. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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JULY 9, 2016

According to Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE), in 2015 Europe had 28 operational LNG import terminals; 8 under construction (one of which was the Dunkirk plant); and 26 more planned.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

This new motor/generator will be shown at Busworld Kortrijk, taking place from 20-25 October 2017 in Kortrijk, Belgium. in 2015 to 4% in 2016, with a 7% to 8% increase forecast for this year. Earlier post.) The SUMO HP HV900 offers 190 kW of continuous power and 915 N·m (675 lb-ft) of torque in a casing of only 200 mm in length.

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MARCH 25, 2016

Scania will leave from Södertalje, south of Stockholm, driving through Sweden, Denmark and Germany to Maasvlakte II in the Port of Rotterdam, making a stop in Zolder, Belgium and in Zwolle, Netherlands. IVECO will depart from Brussels and DAF from their production location in Westerlo, Belgium.

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

A service campaign will be carried out with a total of 384 units of affected Caddy (model year between 2011-2015) and any affected customers will be informed individually in due course. In Belgium, some 320,000 affected vehicles—models with the EA 189-type diesel engine and a displacement of 1.2

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

ABB will show its fast charging system to the public for the first time in Kortrijk, Belgium at the Busworld 2015 show, where ABB will showcase multiple innovative technologies for public transport.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2015

This trend is reflected in Bosch’s sales figures as well: radar and video sensor sales will once again double in 2015. In 2014, every second new car (50%) in Belgium as well as the Netherlands also came equipped with such systems, which are also found in 19% of newly registered passenger cars in the United Kingdom.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2009

The City of Amsterdam plans to deploy 200 charging stations before 2012, and expects the charging stations to fuel 10,000 electric cars in 2015. The Katholieke High School of Limburg, Belgium (KHLim) will deploy ChargePoint Networked Charging stations as part of the first European Clean Mobility Center in Belgium.

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JANUARY 19, 2019

Ford revealed the enhanced Mondeo—including a new Hybrid Wagon variant for the first time—at the Brussels Motor Show in Belgium. Ford has sold more than 250,000 Mondeos in Europe since the fourth generation model began reaching customers in 2015. Further significant Mondeo powertrain upgrades include: Ford’s advanced 2.0-liter

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The agreement would see GE Capital lease EV vehicles across Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. As a sign of its engagement in the EV sector, GE has shown interest in buying from PSA Peugeot Citroën up to 1,000 EVs by the end of 2015 for all of Europe. million globally.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

As pollution controls were put into place on NO x emissions, by 2015, the systems in Europe, the United States, and East Asian urban areas became limited by NO x , meaning that further controls on NO x would help reduce ozone formation. Credits: NASA’s Earth Observatory /Josh Stevens. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

In 2015, Sony acquired Belgium-based Softkinetic Systems S.A. This sensor allows the quick and effective detection of obstacles and people in parking lots, on dark nights, and in other situations that would challenge the naked eye.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 18, 2010

Eighty per cent of European vehicle sales will be in the less than 150g/km CO2 emission band by 2015: that’s the verdict of a new report from Frost & Sullivan entitled “Implementation Roadmap of CO2 Tax Banding in European Countries and Impact Analysis on Powertrain and Green Technology Adoption”.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Launched in the spring of 2015 and originally known as the R240, this motor was entirely developed by Renault and led to the filing of 95 patents. The R75/90 motor is made at Renault’s Cléon factory in Normandy, a flagship facility in the field of engine and transmission production for the group. Smartphone app.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Green hydrogen production costs are down 40% since 2015 and are expected to fall by a further 40% through 2025. Reductions in the costs of renewable power account for two thirds of the reduction in the cost of green hydrogen seen since 2015 with one third due to reductions in the cost of the electrolysis equipment.

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JULY 4, 2017

Eleven EU Member States breached air pollution ceilings in 2015 mostly due to high emissions from agricultural and transport sources, according to new data and a briefing released by the European Environment Agency (EEA). The briefing includes information on countries’ 2015 emissions and national ceilings for different pollutants.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

EU regulation is striving to cut the CO2 emitted by cars to an average figure of 130 g/km by 2015. Belgium / 148 / 153 / 5. The average British driver comes sixteenth in the list with 158g/km (eg. VW Passat). Director at the ETA, Andrew Davis, said: “Car makers can build green cars, but they need us to buy them.

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AUGUST 31, 2015

2010 and 2015 LCOE ranges for solar and wind technologies. Projected Costs of Generating Electricity: 2015 Edition looks at generation costs at more than 180 plants—from large nuclear and fossil-fuel facilities to wind farms to residential-sized solar PV installations—in 22 countries, including Brazil, China and South Africa.

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