Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2013

Exxon Mobil Corporation is commencing development of the ultra-deepwater Julia oil field in the Gulf of Mexico. ExxonMobil, the operator, and Statoil Gulf of Mexico LLC each hold a 50% interest in the Julia unit. Capital cost for the project, which is expected to begin oil production in 2016, is estimated to be more than $4 billion.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2016

Kia Motors Mexico celebrated its first anniversary in the country with the announcement of the arrival of Kia Niro Hybrid Utility Vehicle (HUV) to the Mexican market at the end of the current year. With the introduction of Niro, Kia Motors will offer its first hybrid vehicle in Mexico and will strengthen its product lineup in the country.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2017

Consistent and combined with previously announced investments, FCA US is further demonstrating its commitment to strengthening its US manufacturing base, and aligning US capacity to extend the Jeep product lineup. The latest announcement represents the second phase of an industrialization plan announced in January 2016.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Honda de Mexico, S.A. The new plant will be located adjacent to the new automobile plant that will begin mass production early next year of the all-new 2015 Honda Fit. In addition to supporting HDM auto production, the plant will provide transmissions to Honda auto plants outside Mexico.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2013

Honda de Mexico, S.A. HDM) plans to construct a new transmission plant in Celaya, near the city of Guanajuato, on the same site as the new automobile plant currently under construction that will begin production of the Honda Fit in Spring 2014. In 2012, Honda sold 54,000 units in Mexico (up 150.6%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2014

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the latest oil and gas lease sales for federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico garnered $872,143,771 million in high bids on 329 tracts covering 1,707,358 acres. The area will be offered to industry again in 2016 under the current Five Year Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing Program.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2019

A 2016 study by Professor Maher and colleagues found abundant magnetite nanoparticles in brain tissue; magnetite is toxic and has been implicated in the production of reactive oxygen species (free radicals) in the human brain, which are associated with neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2016

At the Paris Motor Show, Carlos Ghosn and Dieter Zetsche said that the strategic partnership between the Renault-Nissan Alliance and Daimler AG is maturing as it enters its seventh year in 2016. Another milestone was establishing the first joint production facility COMPAS. kWh/100 km; CO2 emissions, combined: 0 g/km). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2017

Crude oil production in the US Permian Basin is expected to increase to an estimated 2.4 million barrels per day (b/d) in May, based on estimates from EIA’s Drilling Productivity Report. Between January 2016 and March 2017, oil production in the Permian Basin increased in all but three months, even as domestic crude oil prices fell.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2018

In its latest edition of the Short-Term Energy Outlook , the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that US crude oil production will average 10.3 million b/d in 2018—the highest annual average production in US history, surpassing the previous record of 9.6 US crude oil production averaged an estimated 9.3

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2016

Mazda Motor Corporation announced that the total production volume of the Mazda3 (known as Mazda Axela in Japan) reached five million units at the end of April 2016. It is the second Mazda to reach five million units of production, following the Mazda Familia. It is also assembled in Malaysia and Vietnam.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Mad Dog Phase 2 will develop resources in the central area of the giant Mad Dog field through a subsea development linked to a new floating production platform with the capacity to produce up to 140,000 gross barrels of crude oil per day from up to 14 production wells. Oil production is expected to begin in late 2021.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2015

BP Exploration & Production Inc. awarded Technip a lump sum project for the design, engineering, fabrication, installation and pre-commissioning of the new production pipeline systems on the south side of the Thunder Horse production drilling quarters unit. The project scope covers: Project management and engineering.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

reported reducing CO2 emissions from global corporate activities in fiscal year 2013 while increasing vehicle production by 5.1%. cut in CO 2 during the year puts the company on track to achieve its goal of a 20% reduction by fiscal year 2016, compared to 2005. Nissan Motor Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2014

The Renault-Nissan Alliance and Daimler AG are significantly expanding their cooperation with joint development of premium compact vehicles and joint production in Mexico. Start of production is planned for 2017 with Infiniti models. The production of Mercedes-Benz brand vehicles will follow in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership. 50% clean power target.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

million cars and posting notable growth in its energy business last year, Tesla still only operates seven dedicated production facilities worldwide. The video only showcases factories that are already operational today, so upcoming sites like Giga Mexico and the Shanghai Megafactory were not yet included. Despite delivering over 1.8

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Volkswagen de Mexico is investing an additional $118 million to mark the start of the second stage of its engine plant located in the Guanajuato Puerto Interior industrial park. The production of the new engine will begin in the first quarter of 2016. Its annual production capacity is 330,000 engines, and it supplies 1.8-

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2017

Ford announced a series of global manufacturing actions centered on improving the company’s operational fitness, among them that it would source the next-generation Ford Focus for North America primarily from China, rather than Hermosillo, Mexico. compared to the same period in 2016, from 83,653 units to 67,146 units.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2013

Mazda Motor Corporation is enhancing production capacity for SKYACTIV-G gasoline engines and SKYACTIV-D diesel engines at its Hiroshima Plant. 2.5L) will be revamped to allow mixed production with SKYACTIV engines. Mazda is strengthening its production system in line with its aim to increase global sales to 1.7 Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Honda unveiled the new 10th-generation 2016 Civic Sedan, slated for sale in the US this fall. The 2016 Civic will feature two all-new engines, including the first application of Honda turbo engine technology in the US. Both engines are targeted to receive EPA highway fuel economy ratings in excess of 40 mpg. The new Civic’s 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

This is the first volume-production turbocharger with this technology in the North American Region. The Taos will provide a further proof point for the ability of the Volkswagen North American Region to deliver the right products for our market requirements. Variable Turbine Geometry (VTG).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Audi is now investing €150 million (US$200 million) in its new production facilities there. To achieve that target, the company is making large investments at its large production sites in Germany and Hungary and is significantly expanding its production network outside Europe.

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Baua Electric

MAY 1, 2024

According to the company management, Sona Comstar has just inaugurated its second plant in Mexico and will likely next look at a greenfield plant in India even as it expands its product range. From 2 plants in 2016, the company now has 10 plants with north America commanding 40% of its revenue, India 28% and Europe 26%, he added.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The move would increase capacity to meet growing demand for its Jeep and Ram brands, including production of two new Jeep-branded white space products, as well as electrified models. The plant actions detailed in today’s announcement represent the next steps in a US manufacturing realignment that FCA began in 2016.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2017

Since OPEC announced the production cut deal at the end of November, industry analysts have been warning that rising production from producers outside the deal—U.S. Since December 2016, oil output in the Lower 48 states, minus the Gulf of Mexico, has been on a continuous expansion, with 430,000 bpd growth so far.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2018

Volkswagen introduced the Volkswagen North American Region (NAR) in 2016; NAR operates under a board structure responsible for aligning all regional activities of the brand throughout Canada, Mexico and the United States, including sales and marketing, product development, procurement, human resources, quality, communication, IT and production.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2013

Audi has begun construction on a more than €900-million plant, comprising a press shop, body shop and assembly line in San José Chiapa, Mexico—the company’s first plant in North America. Starting in mid-2016, the plant will produce the successor generation of the successful Audi Q5 SUV.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2018

During the last three years, companies operating in the Permian basin have drilled much longer laterals and used substantially more complex well completion design in their newer wells with the aim of reaching higher initial production (IP) rates. Longer laterals do not necessarily translate into high productivity.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2018

VIA’s vehicle integration capability, at both production facilities in Utah and Mexico, provides a range of commercial vehicles to meet zero emissions requirements. Yuan Cheng Auto has three core product lines; new energy focused trucks and bus chassis and also new energy powertrains. of Volvo AB—the home of Volvo Trucks.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2017

billion announced in 2016 and more than $21 billion GM has invested in its US operations since 2009. The company also announced it will begin work on insourcing axle production for its next generation full-size pickup trucks, including work previously done in Mexico, to operations in Michigan, creating 450 US jobs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2018

At its site in San José Chiapa, Mexico, the company is using a new water treatment process that collects 100 percent of the wastewater produced there, purifies it and feeds large volumes of clean water back into the plant’s water supply system. The Audi México plant was opened in 2016 and produces the Audi Q5 for the world market.

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DECEMBER 31, 2023

Other important developments not highlighted in the list below included Tesla’s industry-rocking price cuts early in the year, and the company’s increasing production of giant Megapack batteries. The plan followed the Tesla Master Plan parts one and two , which were shared by the company in 2006 and 2016, respectively.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Researchers from the UK, Mexico and the US have found abundant magnetite nanoparticles in the brain tissue from 37 individuals aged three- to 92-years-old who lived in Mexico City and Manchester, UK. 2016) “Magnetite pollution nanoparticles in the human brain” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Hautot et al.

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AUGUST 27, 2015

liter engine production this week and begin production of the new Ecotec small gasoline engine—announced for the next gen Cruze and Volt—by year’s end. Once production of the 1.4-liter Volt production will begin later in 2016. GM Flint Engine Operations recently built its 1 millionth 1.4-liter

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DECEMBER 27, 2014

Audi also plans to create additional production capacities worldwide in the next five years through large-scale investment. Earlier post.) “ We can move into the series-production stage as soon as justified by the market and infrastructure ,” stated Hackenberg. As of 2016, for example, the new Audi Q1 will be produced in Ingolstadt.

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The new strategy will be focused on exporting to other countries, commercial product, and reinforcing the necessary supply chain for all-electric vehicles. Still, Changan Ford (the automaker’s regional joint venture) only held 1 percent of all Chinese light-vehicle sales in 2022 vs the 4 percent it managed to snag in 2016.

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