Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Together with E.ON, Audi is building a solar energy park on the roofs of the two logistics centers of its plant in Gy?r This will create Europe’s largest photovoltaic system installed on a building at the Audi Hungaria plant in Gy?r. Our goal is to have completely CO 2 -neutral plant operation in the future.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2019

At Hannover Messe, Microsoft and the BMW Group announced a new community initiative to enable faster, more cost-effective innovation in the manufacturing sector. Manufacturing production and profitability can be hindered by complex, proprietary systems that create data silos and slow productivity.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2020

The company just opened a separate Battery Cell Competence Center in Munich in November 2019, covering the entire battery cell value chain, from research and development to battery cell composition and design, all the way to large-scale manufacturability. Assembly of the battery cell at the Battery Cell Competence Center.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2019

will be the company’s North American base for manufacturing electric vehicles based on the modular electric toolkit MEB. In addition to Chattanooga, Volkswagen is building the first dedicated EV production facility in Zwickau, Germany, starting MEB production by the end of 2019. Volkswagen AG announced that Chattanooga, Tenn.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2020

The MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future has released a new research brief examining the future of autonomous vehicles. The crucial role of public transit for connecting workers to workplaces will endure: the future of work depends in large part on how people get to work. The automated vehicle transition will not be jobless.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Dürr is positioning itself in the growing Li-ion battery market as a supplier of production technology and is expanding its market access to battery manufacturers through a cooperation with Techno Smart, a leading Japanese manufacturer of coating systems. That is why Dürr is bringing the coating specialists technology on board.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

With a significant increase of battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) in the future, we need to focus on keeping key components like battery systems in our own value chain, allowing us to leverage Group-wide synergies and innovations. The plan is to manufacture more than 1 million battery systems per year in a few years.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Two UK-based companies—Williams Advanced Engineering and Unipart Manufacturing Group—have formed a new joint venture—Hyperbat Limited—to produce batteries for future hybrid and electric vehicles. What will be the UK’s largest independent vehicle battery manufacturer will open in early 2019 in Coventry.

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Aston Martin Manufacturer Engine Batteries 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2017

A123 Systems LLC, a developer and manufacturer of advanced lithium-ion batteries and systems, plans to spend $40 million to build a new headquarters complex in Novi, Michigan. The 32-acre company-owned site will house all corporate functions, an engineering center, new laboratory space and a manufacturing plant.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2019

FCA will build a new battery assembly complex in Turin as part of its overall e-mobility strategy. A complete battery assembly center will be created in a specially designed building, with the potential to be expanded for future projects. The initial investment will be approximately €50 million.

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Building Batteries Battery Italy 170

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2020

INEOS Automotive has acquired the manufacturing facility at Hambach from Mercedes-Benz and will start to build its Grenadier 4x4 there in late 2021. The acquisition secures the future of the site and safeguards many jobs that might otherwise have been lost.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

That represents a 5x growth rate over 2019’s 4% figure. Gelsinger reminded the audience in Munich that Intel has plans to build at least two new semiconductor factories in Europe with plans for future investments that could reach €80 billion over the next decade. This comes amid increasing demand for semiconductors generally.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2019

Mercedes-Benz Cars will build a battery factory at the site in Jawor, Poland, and thus extend its global battery production network to nine factories. After the production of high-tech engines, we will establish additional future technology in Poland. It became apparent that building an engine factory in Jawor has been a good decision.

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Poland Mercedes Global Building 249

Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2023

Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK has signed a deal with the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) Cymru to optimize hydrogen fuel cell assembly. AMRC Cymru is a £20-million R&D facility that opened in 2019 to provide an open innovation Centre for manufacturers in Wales.

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Toyota Fuel Hydrogen Manufacturer 259

Teslarati

JUNE 4, 2021

New production data from Ford reveals that the legacy automaker is manufacturing more units of the all-electric Mach E than the traditional, gas-powered Mustang. In an attempt to enter the all-electric car market, Ford announced that it would electrify its legendary Mustang in November 2019. What do you think?

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F-150 Manufacturer Gas Power 145

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Groupe Renault is launching its “Advanced Battery Storage” program, which aims to build the biggest energy stationary storage system using EV batteries yet designed in Europe by 2020 (power: 70 MW / energy: 60MWh). It will have a storage capacity of at least 60 MWh, making it the biggest system of its kind ever built in Europe.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 22, 2024

And with less material and less overall manufacturing time invested, it’s likely to wear a lower lifetime carbon footprint—an aspect that automakers are especially aware of with EVs. In 2019, with the introduction of Uptis, Michelin and GM announced that the automaker would be testing it on the Chevy Bolt EV.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2019

These highly advanced sensor systems are also important in helping to comply with future safety regulations and consumer safety ratings (e.g., It is possible to combine up to 12 cameras to build a 360-degree view of the vehicle’s surroundings. For each remote camera, manufacturers can choose sensor resolutions of between 1.2

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2017

Volvo Cars announced at Auto Shanghai that it will build its first fully electric car in China. The all-new model will be based on Volvo’s Compact Modular Architecture (CMA) for smaller cars, and will be available for sale in 2019 and exported globally from China, Volvo said.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2019

Audi is actively involved in the EEBUS initiative to promote networking across manufacturer and industry boundaries. Buildings, electric cars and household appliances, heat pumps, and other consumers can coordinate their particular power requirements, thereby preventing overloads.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2021

By building on Harley-Davidson’s 118-year lineage, LiveWire’s mission is to be the most desirable electric motorcycle brand in the world, leading the electrification of the sport. A decade in the making, LiveWire was established as a separate Harley-Davidson division in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

With this new investment we will develop the Oxford plant for production of the new generation of electric MINIs and set the path for purely electric car manufacturing in the future. The new manufacturing plant in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province is based on a joint venture with Great Wall Motor.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 6, 2022

Faraday Future FF 91. If you’ve been napping the past couple months and missed these concepts, you may have missed a glimpse of the future of electric vehicles. Faraday Future has gotten to the “production intent” stage with its FF 91. Faraday Future FF 91 Futurist. The short history of Faraday Future (b.2016)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2018

To ensure adequate battery capacity, partnerships with battery manufacturers for Europe and China have already been agreed. When “Roadmap E” was launched last fall, Volkswagen announced plans to build up to three million electric vehicles annually by 2025 and market 80 new electric Group models. billion (US$27.6 billion]).

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

How will cell manufacturers future-proof their cell production facilities? Britishvolt’s goal is to create domestic battery production all around the world, and the company is currently building its first cell factory in the UK. Ben Kilbey: Britishvolt was founded in 2019 by our CEO Orral Nadjari.

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Building Aston Martin Batteries Battery 126

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 15, 2021

After a week of media rumor, leaks and speculation, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. TSMC), the world's largest contract chip manufacturer, announced in an online earnings briefing Thursday that it would build a semiconductor plant in Japan. chip manufacturers to set up plants here."

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The super e-car with a driving mileage of more than 500 kilometers is slated to hit the market in 2019. Mass production will start in 2019 in Nidec’s new dedicated 66,000 m 2 factory in the Pinghu Economic Development Zone near Shanghai. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 12, 2023

While that era of sooty foundries and mills is long past, manufacturing remains essential — and challenging. One promising way to meet modern industrial challenges is by using additive manufacturing (AM) processes, such as powder bed fusion and other emerging techniques. Adopting AM is not just about installing new equipment.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2015

Toyota is embarking on a multi-year plan to realign its manufacturing operations in North America in support of the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) ( earlier post ), a comprehensive approach to achieving sustainable growth by making ever-better vehicles more efficiently. TMMK) and Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Indiana, Inc.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From 2022, new homes and buildings, such as supermarkets and workplaces, as well as buildings undergoing major renovations, will be required to install electric power under new legislation announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 22 November Car charging pile. Other buildings will also start installing charging piles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2022

Furthermore, working towards the realization of a carbon-neutral society by 2050, AEON TOHOKU and Toyota, together with Futaba Town and Namie Town, wish to contribute to the creation of a sustainable community of the future that utilizes hydrogen. FH2R has been constructed with a renewable energy-powered 10MW-class hydrogen production unit.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

the first series vehicle based on the MEB, will begin in Zwickau at the end of 2019. Volkswagen will build the series production models of the ID family in Saxony. The Gläserne Manufaktur began building the Volkswagen e-Golf back in April 2017. The plant is evolving into a “Center of Future Mobility”.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

General Motors on Monday outlined a series of major restructuring steps that it said would accelerate its transformation for the future, building on the strategy it laid out in 2015 to strengthen its core business, to capitalize on the future of personal mobility and to drive significant cost efficiencies.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Roskill notes that in response to growing demand for high-nickel cathode materials, Chinese lithium convertors have constructed and commissioned significant lithium hydroxide capacity since 2019. Meanwhile, hydroxide prices have flattened out as there remains a build-up of hydroxide capacity in China ahead of the demand profile, Roskill says.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

Nikola has logged more than $10 billion in pre-order leases to date; its joint venture with European industrial vehicle manufacturer IVECO make it a viable competitor to other OEMs. Nikola’s vision of a zero-emission future and ability to execute were key drivers in our decision. Transaction Overview.

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Hydrogen Legal Corporation Fleet 397

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2018

The partners from industry and power generation will use this facility to research into future breakthrough technologies which are needed to meet global climate goals over the long-term. The plant is scheduled to be fully operational by spring 2019. The start of the comprehensive two-year test program is planned for spring 2019.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

To meet our long-term needs, we will be building battery cell factories with our partners, each with an annual capacity of up to 20 GWh, at six locations in key markets for us: two in China, two in Europe and two in USMCA [United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement]. Both partners will build two gigafactories in China and Europe.

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