Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2020

Building on the Task Force’s interim 2019 report, “Work of the Future: Shaping Technologies and Institutions,” MIT Task Force members are providing analysis on topics including manufacturing, health care, tax reform, skills/training, and emerging technologies such as collaborative robotics and additive manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

How President Obama Can Announce Drive Star to Cut Oil Use in Half by 2020. When our country was attacked at Pearl Harbor, no one believed we could build 30,000 planes and tanks in just one year. Well, America’s auto industry delivered over 100,000. That helped us become the world’s greatest industrial power.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 22, 2024

Rising EV sales are set to remake the global auto industry and significantly reduce oil consumption for road transport, according to the new edition of the IEA’s annual Global EV Outlook , released today. The number of EVs sold globally in Q1 2024 is roughly equivalent to that in all of 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2018

At the kickoff of the 2018 International CES, Volkswagen CEO Dr. Herbert Diess and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang discussed on stage how AI is transforming the auto industry and highlighted the new I.D. Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the car. BUZZ is part of the I.D.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2012

The expanded capability will also pave the way for GM to build strategic partnerships with battery cell and cell material suppliers, and make purchasing decisions as a “smart cell buyer.”. China, the largest auto production and consumption market, has explicitly made alternative energy vehicle development a state strategy.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2017

We see China not only as the biggest car market worldwide, but also as a trend setter for the auto industry. Brilliance and Groupe Renault are joining hands to build a world-class model for the development of LCVs. —Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of Groupe Renault.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

To reach that target, the company needs a total battery production capacity of more than 200 GWh by the end of the decade and therefore plans to build eight cell factories worldwide together with partners, four of them in Europe. ACC was founded in 2020 with the goal of becoming the European market leader for car battery cells and modules.

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Push EVs

JULY 12, 2023

Sweden’s June auto market saw plugin EVs take 59.2% Overall auto volume was 28,283 units, up some 9% YoY, though still below pre-2020 norms. They can build on this foundation with more BEV models in the future. share, up from 55.1% year on year. The Tesla Model Y was June’s best selling vehicle. plugin hybrids (PHEVs).

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 4, 2022

In addition, that meant Tesla had sold more than 936,000 vehicles for the year, an 87 percent increase compared to 2020. The impact on the auto industry, particularly the still growing electric sector, could be profound. This was done in a year when almost all other automakers posted drops in sales. What’s all this mean?

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Driivz

JUNE 22, 2022

Decarbonization efforts focus on replacing fossil fuels with low-carbon or no-carbon energy sources for the transportation, electricity generation, industry, agriculture, commercial (buildings and cooling/heating), and residential sectors. Why is Decarbonization Critical? The number of electric cars sold doubled in 2021 to 6.6

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2017

Baidu, the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, announced a new project—named “Apollo”—intended provide an open, complete and reliable software platform for its partners in the automotive and autonomous driving industry to develop their own autonomous driving systems with reference vehicles and hardware platform.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2014

We are going to build on that those provide the building blocks for full autonomy down the road. Ford also announced that it will introduced more than 12 new performance vehicles through 2020, including an all-new Focus RS, to be available globally. We are going to help enable that with our next generation sync system.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2010

Ford plans to survey 35 top global suppliers on their energy use and estimated greenhouse gas emissions as part of a broader effort to reduce carbon emissions within the auto industry. Suppliers play an important role as we look to reduce our overall carbon footprint and drive more efficiency in an energy constrained world.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Opportunities for the UK to take a leading role in low carbon technologies will be looked at as part of our auto industrial strategy, published later this year. Nevertheless, the analysis identified sufficient early adopters to generate sales of approximately 10,000 per year by 2020. —Business Minister Michael Fallon.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 18, 2010

“Japanese car manufacturer Nissan announced today that it would build its new energy efficient electric car, the Nissan Leaf, in the UK. Japanese car manufacturer Nissan announced today that it would build its new energy efficient electric car, the Nissan Leaf, in the UK. Nissan Leaf Electric Car to be Made in the UK.

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Qnovo

MARCH 2, 2021

We are in the midst of deep disruption to the auto industry. Most cells makers also provide the pack assembly, though some auto manufacturers, namely Tesla and the German auto makers, favor building their own packs. There is a split opinion among auto manufacturers. Then comes battery safety!

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

But very few consumers will come up with BrightDrop , the name GM has given to a new unit that builds electric commercial vehicles: full-size vans and even electric cargo containers. BrightDrop offers a fascinating window into the breadth of GM’s EV plans, though even many people in the auto industry know little about it.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 6, 2023

The Austin-based company has been launching new products and making strategic acquisitions to build complete solution-level capabilities for EV battery testing and validation, led by its automotive customers who don’t have time to build up the technology themselves. Then in 2020, right as COVID took hold, I took over as CEO.

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Push EVs

MAY 17, 2023

Overall auto volume was 132,990 units, up 11.6% YoY, though still down from the roughly 170,000 pre-2020 seasonal norm. April’s runner up brand was MG, in large thanks to the popular new MG4, arguably Europe’s best value BEV, building on the success of the MG5, and the ZS. The UK car market saw plugin electric vehicles take 21.9%

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Get Electric Vehicle

MARCH 27, 2021

The company has since raised money from big players in the Indian auto industry, including Ola’s Bhavish Aggarwal, and Ratan Tata, the former Chairman of Tata Sons. The company also produces low-cost lithium-ion scooters, which they displayed at the Auto Expo 2020. Revolt Intellicorp.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

SCE estimates that by 2020, there will be about 350,000 PEVs in its service territory.) Because California leads the nation in EV adoption, other utilities and stakeholders in the auto industry may find the information from the white paper useful, SCE suggested. It’s not easy. —Ed Kjaer.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 27, 2021

Wetzig and his colleague, Maximillian Reismann, authored a white paper, “Methods for Leak Testing Lithium-Ion Batteries to Assure Quality with Proposed Rejection Limit Standards,” which was accepted and published by the SAE in April 2020. You may remember, several years ago, the auto industry had a big recall of airbag inflators.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2011

This is a downward revision from the $35B the firm forecast for ESG spending through 2020 in a report published last August. This means that we will need 3x more battery capacity investments to meet 2020 EV demand. “In the near-term, we expect to see some consolidation in the battery industry, with a few leaders taking the lead.

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EV Adoption

DECEMBER 5, 2021

With OEMs only reporting sales on so few EV models, we have to build models and estimate the sales numbers for nearly 85% of the EVs currently available in the US. The Audi e-tron Sportback was launched in the US in Q3 2020, and has seemingly settled in at a consistent level of +/- 900 units sold per quarter.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

It delivered just under one million cars for the year (an 87% increase compared to 2020), so the expectation is next year with the additional plants it will easily top 1.5 Tesla has a strong lead and a loyal fan base, but in the auto industry nothing’s forever. million sales worldwide with its four current models.

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

The interesting thing is before electric cars were popular, no one in the auto industry or mainstream media even questioned where petrol or the metals used in engines are coming from. The Lithium extraction industry is open to more sustainable raw-material extraction.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2014

Since the MOU signing, state regulators, the auto industry and infrastructure developers and other stakeholders have shared information and best practices to help move this effort forward. The plan calls for a goal that by 2020, all interested state agency employees with plug-in vehicles (PEVs) will have a place to charge them.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

The longer-term effects are difficult to quantify but it is likely that sales growth will continue to be stunted throughout the rest of 2020, even if the spread of COVID-19 can be contained. North America’s January 2020 sales sank by 3.6% Europe’s January 2020 sales of 1.44 yearly decline seen one year earlier.

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Baua Electric

MAY 14, 2024

Jeremiads lamenting China’s takeover of the global auto industry are everywhere these days. Retreating behind tariff walls or outright bans will further isolate America’s auto industry into a Galapagos market of ridiculous trucks sold at nosebleed prices.” billion in Leapmotor last year to build vehicles for export.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

According to a report by the Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (SMEV), the sales of electric vehicles in India witnessed a significant increase in recent years, with a growth rate of over 20% in 2020. Mahindra & Mahindra is another major player in the electric auto industry.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2022

The announcement builds on the recent creation of the Ford Model e business unit focused on the design, production, and distribution of electric and connected vehicles ( earlier post ). In 2021, sports utilities and crossovers accounted for 58% of all Ford passenger vehicle sold in the continent, up nearly 20 percentage points from 2020.

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Blink Charging

JUNE 9, 2022

North American sales were 735,000 units in 2021, up from 375,000 in 2020. That is twice as many sales in 2021 over 2020. in 2020 of total new vehicle sales. Lockdowns hit the auto industry hard and vehicle sales plummeted. in May 2020, a catastrophic hit for any industry. EVs have also grown to a 4.4%

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

auto industry jobs could rise by 150,000 by 2030 if battery electric vehicles sales reach 50 percent by 2030 and the vehicle market share of U.S.-assembled It believes that there will be a net loss of 275,000 auto industry jobs by 2040, with most of the drop off coming between 2030 and 2035.

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Electric Vehicles India

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Indian Electric Vehicle Market was valued at USD 5 billion in 2020, and it is expected to reach USD 47 billion by 2026, registering a CAGR of above 44% during the forecast period (2021-2026). billion in 2020.The The Union Transport minister inaugurated India’s first inter-city electric bus service in February 2020.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Finances have been earmarked for a facility operated by subsidiary SK Siltron CSS to expand a plant located in Bay City, Michigan, which had previously expressed plans to build more chips. This includes the automotive sector, even though manufacturing jobs not directly tied to the auto industry have technically kept a higher pace.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2021

This is in addition to the already planned network of nine plants dedicated to building battery systems. Mercedes-Benz remains committed to the margin targets outlined in fall 2020. Cell production will give Mercedes-Benz the opportunity to transform its established powertrain production network. Financial Plan.

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Blink Charging

MARCH 17, 2022

North American sales were 735,000 units in 2021, up from 375,000 in 2020; that’s twice as many sales, a 4.4% Lockdown hit the auto industry hard and vehicles sales plummeted. in May 2020, a catastrophic hit for any industry. in May 2020, a catastrophic hit for any industry. market share, up from 2.3%

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