Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Fossil fuel combustion, a major source of air pollution, contributed to more than one million deaths globally in 2017, more than 27% of all deaths from outdoor fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ), according to a new report published by the Health Effects Institute (HEI). pollution and its health impacts. in African countries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2022

The IEA June 2022 Oil Market Report (OMR) forecasts world oil demand to reach 101.6 Nevertheless, product markets are expected to remain tight, with a particular concern for diesel and kerosene supplies. OECD industry stocks also rose, by 42.5 OECD industry stocks also rose, by 42.5 mb below the 2017-2021 average.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2019

Disruptive innovation is typically a Silicon Valley buzzword and not one commonly associated with discussions of gasoline markets. If a million low-speed electric vehicles displaced a million gasoline-powered midsize sedans from the market, about 15,000 barrels per day of gasoline demand could effectively be lost, Collins said.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2019

This year’s achievements underline SEAT’s potential to make use of growth opportunities and open new markets. to stand at €223 million (2017: 116) and turnover amounted to €9.991 billion—4.6% higher than the 2017 result (9.552). more than in 2017), made SEAT the fastest growing brand in Europe last year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

This investment will contribute to the development of a competitive manufacturing base for producing, launching and marketing Peugeot 208, 2008 and 301 models, fitted with latest-generation engines. The first vehicles will roll off the production line at the Tehran plant in the second half of 2017. million vehicles in 2011.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2019

The first volume of the report, the World Oil Review, is devoted to oil reserves, supply, demand, trade and prices with a special focus on crude oil quality and on refining industry. Global oil demand grew by 1.4%, slightly lower than in 2017 (+1.6%) in a context of increasing oil prices. recorded in 2013-2017.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

LanzaTech’s first commercial facility will be online at the end of 2017 in China, producing fuel-grade ethanol from captured steelmaking off-gas. South Africa has the potential to produce more than 400,000 tonnes of ethanol per year from existing ferroalloy and titania producers.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Guarani is one of the leading companies in the Brazilian sugar and ethanol market, ranked third among the largest sugar producers in Brazil. PetroquímicaSuape and Citepe are fully-owned subsidiaries of Petrobras and form part of the company’s Chemical-Textile Industrial Complex in Ipojuca, in the state of Pernambuco.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2019

trillion in 2018, a level similar to 2017. For the third year in a row, the power sector attracted more investment than the oil and gas industry. Energy investments now face unprecedented uncertainties, with shifts in markets, policies and technologies. Global energy investment totalled more than US$1.8

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

The result will be renewables eating up more and more of the existing market for coal, gas and nuclear. —Seb Henbest, head of Europe, Middle East and Africa for BNEF and lead author of NEO 2018. The latest BP Annual Energy Outlook found that in 2017, renewables grew strongly in 2017, with wind and solar leading the way.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

At the company’s Capital Markets Day 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Sasol management said that the company will no longer pursue its proposed ) project in the US ( earlier post ) and furthermore will not invest in additional greenfields gas-to-liquids (GTL) projects. —Stephen Cornell.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2018

Of this amount, €464 million (US$572 million) were earmarked entirely for R&D, a figure which represents close to 3% of the total R&D investment expenses in Spain, making SEAT the leading industrial investor in Spain. From 2013 to 2017, SEAT invested more than €3.3 billion (US$4.1

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Electric Vehicles India

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As per the company, this is the largest amount that is raised by an electric mobility company in all of Sub-Saharan Africa. The funding raised by the company will be used to scale its operations in electric motorcycle and bus manufacturing in Africa. Opibus founded in 2017 develops, designs, and manufactures electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2018

With an increasing amount of Li-ion battery raw material refining and processing centred in China, and it being front-and-center of Li-ion demand growth, Chinese Li-ion value chain participants have turned to Australia, Africa and South America to secure the feedstock necessary for their downstream requirements. Either way, more than 1.6

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Cars That Think

JULY 29, 2023

The IEEE member from Kigali, Rwanda, participated in installing portable sinks in nearby rural markets to curb the spread of COVID-19 and provided clean water and sanitation services to people displaced by the Mount Nyiragongo volcano eruption in 2021. She also got involved in organizing conferences in Africa.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2016

This investment will contribute to facilitate the development of a competitive manufacturing base for producing, launching and marketing Peugeot 208, 2008 and 301 models, fitted with latest-generation engines. The first vehicles will roll off the production line at the Tehran plant in the second half of 2017. million vehicles in 2011.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

EIA’s annual long-term assessment of world energy markets includes a Reference case and four core side cases, which use different assumptions for the projections in each case. India, in particular, is projected to experience rapid industrial growth and increased demand for motorized transportation. Light-duty vehicles.

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Baua Electric

MAY 18, 2024

In those days, India revolved around the pulse of small cars, an automotive ethos that endured for decades, reigning supreme until 2017-18, after which tides started turning in the favour of SUVs (sports utility vehicles). Hatchbacks saw peak sales in 2017-18, at 1.5 There’s a market for Rs 5 lakh small cars with reasonable features.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2019

In 2017, Ford announced it would invest $1 billion over five years in Argo AI—an artificial intelligence software startup founded by former Google and Uber leaders—to develop an SAE Level 4 virtual driver system for the automaker’s autonomous vehicle coming in 2021, and for potential license to other companies. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Alliance, described the partnership as “ one of the most productive in the auto industry. ”. It has accelerated the time-to-market for vehicle launches and has been an obvious strategic advantage for each partner. We look forward to its continued growth, with more joint projects in the future.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The transport sector is not on track towards achieving sustainable mobility, according to the newly published Global Mobility Report 2017 (GMR). —GMR 2017. Transitioning to sustainable mobility would allow Africa to become food self-sufficient and create a regional food market worth $1 trillion by 2030. Efficiency.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2021

The four candidates share their plans for increasing student membership; expanding science, technology, engineering, and math education programs; and attracting more members from industry. which provides market and technology analysis as well as data storage, memory technology, and business consulting services. The annual.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2016

With prices set to double by 2018, we’ve seen the bottom of the uranium market, and the negative sentiment that has followed this resource around despite strong fundamentals, is starting to change. The market has been skewed by negative sentiments that ignore the supply and demand fundamentals,” says Paul D. Not even close.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2017

The 2017 edition of the BP Energy Outlook , published today, forecasts that global demand for energy will increase by around 30% between 2015 and 2035, an average growth of 1.3% The Outlook looks at long-term energy trends and develops projections for world energy markets over the next two decades. of the global car fleet).

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

US sanctions targeting China's telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies have crippled the company, effectively forcing it out of the global smartphone market and now threatening its domestic phone business as well. They have also shrunk Huawei's market for fifth-generation wireless network infrastructure around the world.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The cost of fossil-fuel subsidies has been driven up by higher oil prices; they remain most prevalent in the Middle East and North Africa, where momentum towards their reform appears to have been lost. Links between regional gas markets will strengthen as liquefied natural gas trade becomes more flexible and contract terms evolve.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In early 2017, in the forest highlands of eastern Guinea, a man I’ll call Jacob began a journey that would take him across five Saharan countries and multiple failed sea crossings. Now his lack of legal residency in Spain hobbles his earning power and prevents him from visiting home, but it is not as dangerous as it was in North Africa.

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

These trends indicate that growth remains robust as electric car markets mature. While sales of electric cars are increasing globally, they remain significantly concentrated in just a few major markets. However, sales remain limited elsewhere, even in countries with developed car markets such as Japan and India.

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Get Electric Vehicle

AUGUST 4, 2022

The next major car markets approaching the tipping point this year include Canada, Australia, and Spain. Tesla, Volkswagen, and BYD have all announced ever-increasing production targets, indicating the haste with which automakers are bringing their electric vehicles to market. Global Powers Favour BEVs. Indeed, it is certain to happen.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Alternative technologies, such as hybrid and electric vehicles that use oil more efficiently or not at all, continue to advance but they take time to penetrate markets. Short-term pressures on oil markets are easing with the economic slowdown and the expected return of Libyan supply. The passenger vehicle fleet doubles to almost 1.7

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EV Connect

MARCH 8, 2021

Where does the global EV market stand? South Africa, the European Union and the U.S. According to industry statistics, the European Union had 224,538 fully functional public charging stations, as of the end of 2020. Starting in 2017, the Germany-based company IONITY set out to address this problem. In the U.S.,

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 6, 2023

But the region doesn’t just have the market cornered on completed batteries. It could even be argued that it further advantages Chinese industries while exacerbating environmental concerns by forcing companies to move countless tons of graphite halfway around the world on container ships. steel) reliant on the same resources.&

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A Redwood Materials spokesman said that “successful decommissioning of these initial projects serves as an industry model for future gigawatt-scale projects.” Since its launch in 2017, the company has set out to create a “circular supply chain” of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and clean-energy products.

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Cars That Think

JULY 26, 2023

And a lot of people were asking when the book came out in 2017, “What about cyber war? And finally, the Mirai botnet, which was created by three teenagers in order to basically get more market share for their Minecraft servers but ended up knocking the internet off for many people in the United States. What about cyber war?”

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2018

Although there is widespread interest in autonomous vehicles (AVs), the US—one of the largest auto markets in the world—expresses higher levels of resistance than most nations, according to a new study by Ipsos, a leading global market research firm. —Clifford Young, President, US, Ipsos Public Affairs.

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