Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Audi has named its vehicle networking strategy “Audi connect.” ” Audi is using this term to bundle all of the applications and developments that link current and future models with the Internet with their owners and with the infrastructure. —Rupert Stadler, Chairman of the Board of Management of AUDI AG.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2015

Global Bioenergies and its partner Audi ( earlier post ) announced that the first batch of renewable gasoline using Global Bioenergies’ fermentative isobutene pathway has been produced. The batch will be presented to Audi by Global Bioenergies during a press conference to be held in Pomacle on 21 May. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2015

At CES Asia 2015 in Shanghai, Audi is showcasing a piloted driving technology study version of its new R8 e-tron battery-electric sports car, introduced earlier this year at the Geneva show. Audi is also featuring a piloted driving version of its A7 Sportback. Piloted driving in China: the Audi strategy. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 5, 2014

Separately, Audi of America, also part of the larger Volkswagen Group, also announced its own carbon offset program for the Audi A3 Sportback e-tron plug-in hybrid (PHEV) ( earlier post ) with 3Degrees, as well as SunPower and Bosch partnerships. 3Degrees and carbon offsets. Installation costs will be extra.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Audi has put a new topcoat paint shop into operation at its plant in Ingolstadt. Sustainable operations have high priority at Audi. Dr. Hubert Waltl, Member of the Board of Management of AUDI AG for Production and Logistics. In combination with dry separation, this also benefits the environment. —Prof.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Volkswagen is undertaking the setup and operation of the 5G infrastructure itself in a move designed to build up competitive expertise in using this important technology of the future and ensure data security. Our aim is therefore to build up extensive experience in the operation and industrial use of 5G technology.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2021

The consistent use of cloud technology also facilitates the creation and integration of a highly scalable virtual testing environment. Volkswagen is collaborating closely with Audi and Porsche in these activities. Volkswagen can already leverage internal Group synergies in developing software for its fully networked vehicles.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Audi presented a range of its ongoing work on electromobility and efficiency—from fuels and systems to full vehicles—under the “Future Performance Days 2015” banner. On the full vehicle side, Audi put forward the Audi Q7 e-tron 3.0 On the full vehicle side, Audi put forward the Audi Q7 e-tron 3.0

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Audi partner Global Bioenergies (GBE) has successfully carried out its first isobutene production trial at its industrial pilot site in Pomacle-Bazancourt. A production run was initiated on 3 November, resulting in the first production of isobutene—a gaseous hydrocarbon—by fermentation in an industrial environment.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

aims to develop the best-in-class car operating system and will build up an ecosystem with different partners to enable seamless development for customers. TTTech Auto combines its experience from various series production programs to take the next step in building advanced electronic vehicle architectures.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2015

Bpifrance granted Global Bioenergies a “Zero Percent Interest Innovation Loan” (Prêt à Taux Zéro Innovation) to adapt its isobutene process to certain specific industrial environments. Isobutene is one of the key petrochemical building blocks. million interest-free loan over seven years. —Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies.

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EV Central

MAY 17, 2024

Luxury brands continue to build on their electric ambitions, with BMW, Porsche and Volvo at the forefront. Now’s the time… It’s a critical time for Polestar as it looks to build on its healthy start to EV life. But it’s only been building its own cars for a handful of years. But where to from here for Polestar?

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MAY 10, 2021

“Testing in a real-life environment is now getting underway – one of the most important milestones in the development process,” Member of the Executive Board, Research and Development Michael Steiner said. The first physical builds of the Macan EV were built upon the data that Porsche obtained from its simulations.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

From the environmental perspective, it will be designed around two technologies: mechanical vapor recompression (MVR) and electric calcination, which allows for a self-enclosed calciner operating environment that captures steam and allows the calciner to be connected to a renewable-powered electric grid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In January, Audi unveiled the 2013 Audi A3 with 4G LTE wireless connectivity, and will be offering a fully integrated LTE link for Audi connect services in the A3 this year. These enhancements build on OnStar’s existing portfolio of built-in connected services, first introduced in GM vehicles in 1996. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

PhD students from the Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Audi, MAN, Porsche, Scania, SEAT, ŠKODA and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brands presented their doctoral theses on topics from eleven different specialist departments at the MobileLifeCampus in Wolfsburg. In the field of Industry 4.0,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2016

AR automotive technology extends beyond HUDs, with other use cases including AR manuals, which Audi and Ford recently launched, and “see-through” applications that combine vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications with AR and future 5G low latency broadband connectivity to enhance driver visibility. —Dominique Bonte.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

Still, ABI notes, V2X is a critical component—in combination with short-range radar-based ADAS and cellular communication—to build proactive safety systems and ultimately realize the ambition of autonomous vehicles and a zero accident environment.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

Audi, along with ETOGAS, is building the first commercial-scale demonstration plant (6.3 Dr. Hermann Pengg, head of project management e-fuels, Audi, giving a talk on energy conversion and storage using Power-to-Gas at ASPO 2012. Diagram: Isabelle Plat. Click to enlarge. ETOGAS in the energy system. Source: SolarFuel.

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JUNE 2, 2016

Chairman of the Board of Management Matthias Müller stressed the importance of the new strategic partnership, stating that ride hailing will be at the center of the Group’s new mobility on-demand business, which the company is building up as the second pillar alongside the classic automobile business. —Ole Harms.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2016

As connected vehicles include more low-cost, high-resolution sensors, cars will capture and upload this data to a central, cloud-based repository so that automotive companies, such as HERE, can crowdsource the information to build highly accurate, real-time precision maps. —Dominique Bonte.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

On the eve of the Paris Motor Show, HERE, the high-definition mapping and location services business company acquired by Audi, BMW and Daimler ( earlier post ), announced next-generation vehicle-sourced data services.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

Still, ABI notes, V2X is a critical component—in combination with short-range radar-based ADAS and cellular communication—to build proactive safety systems and ultimately realize the ambition of autonomous vehicles and a zero accident environment.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Part of Germany’s “big three” luxury carmakers – alongside Audi and Mercedes-Benz – BMW is typically associated with class and prestige rather than fuel economy and the environment. However, with nearly 20 models offering emissions below 140g/km of CO2, BMW has quietly been building a solid image as[.].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2019

Tested at the limits of friction on a racetrack using Niki, Stanford’s autonomous Volkswagen GTI, and Shelley, Stanford’s autonomous Audi TTS, the system performed about as well as an existing autonomous control system and an experienced racecar driver. An open-access paper on their work is published in the journal Science Robotics.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

when Audi teamed up with Stanford to explore autonomy at the limits of vehicle handling, including autonomous drifting. Here I will review research over the last two decades building on these early insights to further understand dynamic multi-legged locomotion in complex terrain. [

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Joule, a pioneer in the production of liquid fuels from recycled CO 2 , and HeidelbergCement, a German multinational building material company, are partnering to explore application of Joule’s technology to mitigate carbon emissions in cement manufacturing. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The aim is to increase the number of FCEVs operating on Europe’s roads to build on the strong networks of hydrogen refuelling stations created by H2ME and other initiatives across the EU. In total, more than 1,400 FCEVs will be deployed as part of the H2ME project throughout the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Scandinavia.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2013

to build the first fully active suspension system with energy recovery function. Levant’s proprietary fluid porting geometries allow for the Gerotor to perform efficiently in a damper environment. Click to enlarge. ZF Friedrichshafen AG has entered into a partnership with Levant Power Corp.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2012

Engineers from Ford’s European Research Centre in Aachen, Germany and simTD research project partners have up to now tested the V2X developmental technologies in a controlled environment. The technologies will now be tested on public roads in and around Frankfurt in real-world driving conditions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety recently awarded €5.7 Project partners include: Audi AG, Ingolstadt. million to build and operate an advanced lithium battery recycling facility at their existing Lancaster, Ohio site. million (US$8.4 Chemetall GmbH, Frankfurt.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

UR:BAN participants include: Adam Opel AG; AUDI AG; BMW AG; BMW Forschung und Technik GmbH; Robert Bosch GmbH; German Federal Institute for Road Transportation; Continental Automotive GmbH; Continental Safety Engineering International GmbH; Continental Teves AG & Co. The system senses the environment as well as the traffic in the lanes.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2016

In addition to building up and expanding its own resources for the major fields of future importance, the Group plans to open itself up more to new partnerships and strategic investments. The financial key performance indicators for the Lamborghini and Ducati brands are included in the financial figures for the Audi brand.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

Broadly, Navigant expects expansion in both the higher end of the market (thereby putting competitive pressure on Tesla Motors), as Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Mercedes, Saab, and Volvo introduce their first plug-in cars. At the same time, a few geographic markets will continue to prepare for FCV introduction by building hydrogen stations.

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OCTOBER 5, 2018

The MEB is not just the technical building block for all models in the Volkswagen ID. family, but for many electric cars produced by other Group brands, including Audi, SEAT, Škoda and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. Volkswagen is now applying this same platform strategy to the era of electric vehicles.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Left to right: Rupert Stadler (Audi), Dr. Herbert Diess (Volkswagen), Matthias Müller (Volkswagen), Dr. Dieter Zetsche (Daimler), Harald Krüger (BMW), Matthias Wissman (President of VDA). This applies in particular to the use of urea for exhaust gas purification in achieving the highest efficiency achieved in this process. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The facility is very well maintained and gives the impression of being on a gigantic movie set, since it is full of buildings and roads but contains relatively very few people. Byran Nesbitt, Cadillac’s general manager, added that “ Dedicated resources, studio and engineering, allows us to nurture and build the brand identity. ”.

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