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Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

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Audi’s e-gas plant. Audi has opened its e-gas plant in Werlte, making it the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy carriers. The Audi e-gas plant, which can convert 6MW of input power, utilizes renewable electricity for electrolysis to produce oxygen and hydrogen. Click to enlarge.

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European consortium launches 4-year, $80M L3Pilot research project to test Level 3, 4 autonomous driving in 11 countries

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The strong integration of the entire European automobile industry and the scientific support by experts in the areas of mobility and automated vehicles will drive this initiative forward and make it successful. The focus is on product liability and road traffic regulations.

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Volkswagen Group Research and KUKA partner to develop robot-supported services for autonomous and electric vehicles

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Audi recently established Autonomous Intelligent Driving GmbH for self-drive systems. KUKA AG is one of the biggest providers of intelligent automation solutions and is the world’s leading manufacturer of production plants in the automobile industry. This company is carrying out work for the entire Volkswagen Group.

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New milestone in 2023: What drove India to record over 41 lakh car sales

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the Indian automobile industry has been showing great resilience. Improved supply chain helped in more car production While the pandemic-struck 2020 and immediate subsequent years were marred by the massive supply chain disruption, majorly driven by semiconductor shortage across the world, India was relatively at a safer spot.

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Oil companies “break the circle”! Total Energy to build tens of thousands of charging piles in China

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Behind the popularity of charging piles in the oil circle, the transportation industry is undergoing a major change unseen in a century. The automobile industry has been developed for more than 200 years, and the use of petroleum as fuel has dominated most of the time. who moved the oil cheese. the only way.

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Volkswagen extends cooperation with China joint venture partner FAW Group for 25 more years; enhanced R&D on alt drive systems

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The Volkswagen Group is one of the most successful companies in the Chinese automobile industry. Together with its joint venture partners SAIC and FAW, the Volkswagen Group builds models from the Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Audi and ŠKODA brands for the Chinese market. million vehicles, an increase of 15.2%

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Volkswagen Group to Invest 4B by 2011 to Expand Activities in China

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billion) in new products and the expansion of production capacities in China. At the Nanjing and Chengdu plants, production is to be boosted to between 300,000 and 350,000 units in each case by 2012. We are already well-positioned there with a broad product portfolio. The planned investment of a total of €1.3

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