Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2022

Components for the production of batteries at Audi’s Brussels plant will no longer be delivered by truck from Hungary, but by rail with DB Cargo. Brussels plays a pioneering role, but we developed this sustainable logistics concept for battery modules and cells in Audi’s entire production network.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Benteler-SGL GmbH, a joint venture between Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH and SGL Group, has inaugurated its new production facility in Ort im Innkreis, Austria. building materials to compensate for the additional battery weight. Benteler-SGL is investing a total of €36 million (US$47 million) in the plant. Benteler-SGL is.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Enel, as coordinator, and Austria’s main utility Verbund are collaborating on a fast-recharging network project in Italy and Austria, alongside some of the world’s largest EV carmakers including Renault, Nissan, BMW and Volkswagen Group Italia (represented by Volkswagen and Audi). A grant agreement worth a maximum of €4.2

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2022

From 2025 onwards, the next generation of BMW e-drives will be manufactured in its engine plant in Steyr, Austria—with both production and development on site—with eventual annual production capacity of more than 600,000 units. The BMW Group’s largest engine plant: Steyr plant in Upper Austria.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

MAN Truck & Bus is working on the post-usage strategy for its electric-vehicle batteries. The aim is to extend the life of the batteries in the first step and, if this is no longer possible, to recycle the raw materials contained in them. This can significantly increase the service life of the battery.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2023

Series production Volta Zeros are due to start rolling off the line of the company’s contract manufacturing facility in Steyr, Austria, in early Q2 2023, with the plant ready to meet the demand for its purpose-built full-electric medium-duty urban delivery truck.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Conventional production of graphite not only takes place far away from battery manufacturing centers but also poses environmental challenges. The valuable mineral for electric vehicle (EV) batteries is now considered a critical raw material. Every battery manufacturer is challenged by insufficient raw materials.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2020

The hydrogen bus Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen is being tested again in Austria. After successful test runs in Vienna in June, the bus was handed over to the Dr. Richard Group, the largest private bus operator in Austria, which presented the vehicle in St. Pölten on 7 July 2020. The cooperation of the two firms started back in 2010.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2023

The Saudi processing plant will process spodumene from a mine that European Lithium is developing in Wolfsberg, Austria. 2021: Saudi Arabia became the first Middle Eastern country to establish pipeline capacity in lithium processing by signing an agreement with EV Metals Groups to build a battery chemicals complex in Yanbu Industrial City.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2022

European Lithium signed a binding long term lithium offtake agreement via its wholly-owned Austrian subsidiary ECM Lithium AT GmbH with BMW to secure the company’s first offtake of battery grade lithium hydroxide (LiOH) from its Wolfsberg Lithium Project underground mine in Austria.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2023

Volta Trucks has started series production of the 16-tonne all-electric Volta Zero at Steyr Automotive, the company’s partner in contract manufacturing, in Steyr, Austria.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2021

Each bus will also be fitted with a Solaris High Power battery. The first Urbino hydrogen models are already cruising on European streets, and dozens more of these buses have been already ordered by carriers in Germany, Italy, Austria and the Netherlands. The Urbino hydrogen buses are powered by a 70 kW fuel cell stack.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 28, 2024

Over the next two years, MAN Truck & Bus , headquartered in Munich, Germany, plans to establish battery repair centers in Italy, Denmark, Norway, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Poland and the UK. Two of the facilities, in Hanover-Laatzen, Germany, and Barcelona, Spain, are already in operation.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2021

The hydrogen buses of Solaris are another option in the manufacturer’s zero-emission portfolio, next to trolleybuses and battery-powered buses; what distinguishes them from standard electric buses is that electric power is generated directly on board the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2019

In collaboration with SGL Carbon, Chinese automotive manufacturer NIO has developed prototypes for battery enclosures made of carbon-fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) for its NIO high performance electric vehicles. The battery enclosure is extremely lightweight, stable and safe.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in Austria has launched the Christian Doppler (CD) Laboratory for Solid-State Batteries. The focus of the new CD laboratory is the reduction of interface resistances within the solid-state battery. Solid-state batteries would be a giant step towards area-wide e-mobility.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2023

Moreover, the ordered vehicles will be equipped with Solaris High Power batteries, providing additional electric energy storage. Urbino hydrogen buses have been contracted by customers from Austria, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, Sweden and Italy.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2021

The newest trucks can be found in Austria (6.4 of vans in the EU are battery electric. years), while the newest ones are in Austria (4.8 being battery electric. being battery electric. million trucks, Poland has the largest truck fleet, followed closely by Germany (1,010,742) and Italy (946,393).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2023

Porsche and the Frauscher Shipyard in Austria are developing an electric yacht—the Frauscher x Porsche 850 Fantom Air—that is intended to set standards on the water with its typical Porsche E-Performance. The yacht will be built in the Frauscher Shipyard in Ohlsdorf, Austria. meter long and 2.49-meter

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The first Volta Zero vehicle has been completed at the company’s contract manufacturing facility in Steyr, Austria. Volta Trucks’ contract manufacturing facility is run by Steyr Automotive, formerly MAN Truck and Bus Austria. The start of series production of customer-specification vehicles is on track to start in early 2023.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2023

Magna announced the start of production of a first-to-market, modular eDecoupling unit to support multiple battery electric vehicle (BEV) programs for a German premium OEM. Production of the new eDecoupling unit will be at Magna’s powertrain facility in Lannach, Austria.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In 2019 alone, around 40 million tons of freight were transported by truck via the four-lane transit route located at an altitude of up to 1,370 meters at the border between Austria and Italy. Daimler Truck is pursuing a dual-track strategy in the electrification of its portfolio with both battery-electric and hydrogen-based drives.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The CIZARIS features robust and reliable CATL lithium iron phosphate batteries and a highly efficient synchronous central motor from Dana/TM4, which has been used in tens of thousands of buses for years. The process enables an effective heating output adapted to battery operation with lower energy consumption.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

A no longer required test vehicle from production development and a used 82 kWh battery were taken as the basis for the concept vehicle. This year, ID. enthusiasts from the whole of Europe are meeting up on the shore of Lago Maggiore from 6 to 10 September to share their experiences with electric mobility.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2017

Consultancy Frost & Sullivan recently selected Austria-based Kreisel Electric ( earlier post ) as the winner of the 2017 European Electric Vehicle Technology Leadership Award. Kreisel ensures that its battery pack offers maximum capacity with minimum weight. —Frost & Sullivan Industry Manager Prajyot N.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2015

Samsung SDI has officially commenced operations of Samsung SDI Battery Systems(SDIBS) in Graz, Austria. In February 2015, Samsung SDI entered into an agreement to acquire the battery pack business of Magna International, a leading global automotive supplier.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2023

Customer’s own series production Volta Zeros are due to start rolling off the line of the company’s contract manufacturing facility in Steyr, Austria, in early Q2 2023. The vehicle underwent multiple systems and individual component testing on areas such as braking, steering, lighting and glazing, along with the vehicle safety systems.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2022

Phillips 66 and H2 Energy Europe have closed on a 50-50 joint venture to set up and operate a network of hydrogen refueling retail sites in Germany, Austria and Denmark. Swiss-headquartered H2 Energy Europe is a joint venture between commodity trading firm Trafigura Pte Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Wiener Linien transport company in Vienna, Austria has ordered 60 Mercedes-Benz eCitaro vehicles. The approximately twelve-meter long solo vehicles are equipped with the latest generation of lithium-ion batteries (NMC 3). The battery capacity of 392 kWh each ensures a long operating range.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2020

The bus is also fitted with a Solaris High Power battery acting as an additional electric power storage facility. Solaris has been present in Austria since 2003 and over that time it has delivered nearly 400 buses to 40 cities there.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2022

DEUS Automobiles was established in Vienna, Austria, in 2020. The DEUS Vayanne production-oriented electric hypercar concept made its world debut last week at the New York International Auto Show. seconds), and maximum daily usability in the hypercar class.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2018

MAN, a member of the Volkswagen Group, is now selling a battery-electric van, the MAN eTGE. A 40 kW charging station fills a battery up to 80% in 45 minutes. With the relevant battery maintenance, the 36 kWh rechargeable battery only loses around 15% of its ca-pacity after ten years and around 2,000 charging cycles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2022

LeydenJar , a Dutch developer of ultra-thin, pure silicon battery anodes, has secured the funding to build its first factory to produce silicon anode foil. LeydenJar’s innovative silicon anode foil allows batteries to store 70% more energy than the currently common graphite anode foil, while being extremely thin. greenSPEED.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2023

Under the agreement, bp pulse plans to install ultra-fast charging at APCOA car parks—Urban Hubs—in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Poland and the UK over the next three years to help expand its charging network in city centers and further to accelerate urban e-mobility infrastructure throughout Europe.

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Electric Cars Report

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The all-new Jeep Avenger, the brand’s first-ever battery electric vehicle, is now available to order in several European countries in fully loaded 1st Edition trim level. The electric Avenger 1st Edition is available to order for customers in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal and Poland.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2016

Samsung SDI has decided to use Hungary as its Li-ion battery production base in Europe. The new battery plant will be built in Goed, north of Budapest in a 330,000 m 2 site, using existing facilities previously used for display production.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Austria proposes letting electric cars drive faster. And BMW builds a new battery assembly line for its upcoming electric cars. California begins fighting back against the EPA's fuel economy freeze. Hyundai recalls Ioniqs. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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