Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The BMW Group is speeding up the shift towards electromobility and strengthening its global network for production of electrified vehicles. The new assembly in Munich will be built on the site currently used for engine production. The expansion of electromobility in the production network continues. Sustainability in production.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Targeted to start by the first quarter of 2024, the plant aims to have an annual production capacity of 40 gigawatt hours. With this announcement, the two companies look to solidify their partnership even further and continue leveraging each other’s strengths.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2011

Mazda Motor Corporation has signed formal agreements and begun preparations to establish a Mazda vehicle production facility in Mexico and a sales company in Brazil, in alliance with Sumitomo Corporation. Mazda will hold 70% of both the production plant and the sales company; Sumitomo will hold 30% of each. million units.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Audi is further expanding its worldwide production network with the opening of the company’s first automobile plant on the North American continent. Audi will produce the new generation of the Audi Q5 for the world market in San José Chiapa in Mexico’s federal state of Puebla. The Audi site in San José Chiapa is 2,400 meters (1.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2016

Mazda Motor Corporation announced that the total production volume of the Mazda3 (known as Mazda Axela in Japan) reached five million units at the end of April 2016. It is the second Mazda to reach five million units of production, following the Mazda Familia. It is manufactured at the Hofu Plant in Japan, Changan Mazda Automobile Co.,

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Mazda Motor Corporation announced that cumulative production of the Mazda3 (known as Mazda Axela in Japan) reached four million units on 22 January 2014—ten years and seven months after production of the first-generation model commenced in June 2003. No other Mazda model has reached the milestone as quickly.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

Honda Manufacturing of Indiana, LLC (HMIN) is investing $40 million to increase annual production capacity by 50,000 units to a total of 250,000 vehicles. Early next year, HMIN will add production of the Civic Hybrid, Honda’s most popular hybrid model in the United States. million vehicles per year. million units per year.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

automakers are exporting production of small cars elsewhere. Ford confirmed yesterday that it will move small-car production to Mexico, joining Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) in eliminating small passenger cars from its U.S. They may be known as the "Detroit Three," but the biggest U.S.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 11, 2024

However, the country also allowed Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to be sold to the French, resulting in Stellantis. That’d be like Ford or General Motors producing something called “The Detroit” and then having it built somewhere in Mexico. "A Typically, it has been invoked against food products, for example U.S.-made

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2020

Joining BMW, Ford and FCA in suspension of production in the US due to COVID-19 ( earlier post ) are: Toyota is temporarily suspending production at all of its automobile and components plants in North America, including Canada, Mexico and the US, through 3 April.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Mexico City E-Prix on 14 January 2023 will be the first race for the Porsche 99X Electric Gen3. The intention behind the new Gen3 cars is to set new benchmarks in motorsport in terms of performance, efficiency and sustainability—the goal stated by the world automobile association FIA and Formula E.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. The move would increase capacity to meet growing demand for its Jeep and Ram brands, including production of two new Jeep-branded white space products, as well as electrified models. Pentastar production at Mack I would end by Q3 2019. will invest a total of $4.5 FCA would invest $1.6

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2018

Audi is now the first premium manufacturer to produce automobiles completely free of wastewater. At its site in San José Chiapa, Mexico, the company is using a new water treatment process that collects 100 percent of the wastewater produced there, purifies it and feeds large volumes of clean water back into the plant’s water supply system.

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Teslarati

APRIL 28, 2023

Amidst Tesla’s ambitious delivery and production targets, Musk has opted to protect volume over profit margins. Musk highlighted this during the Q1 2023 earnings call, when he noted that Tesla could sell its cars at low profits if needed since the company could profit in the future with products like Full Self-Driving.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

liter V-6 EcoDiesel powertrain mix to 20% of the total Ram 1500 production volume—double the initial expectation. Ram Truck worked with powertrain supplier VM Motori (Fiat Group Automobiles) to increase production to meet North American consumer demand. Chrysler’s Ram has decided to increase the 3.0-liter Earlier post.).

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Baua Electric

JULY 4, 2023

SHANGHAI — SAIC Motor is operating at the web site variety to create a plant in Europe to build electrical automobiles, the corporate mentioned on Tuesday, because it presses forward with it growth within the area. from a presen previous.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2017

Volkswagen was founded more than 80 years ago; since then, 150 million vehicles, including icons such as the Golf or the Beetle, have been built around the world at more than 50 production sites in 14 countries. Post-WWII series production of the Volkswagen brand began on 27 December 1945 with the Type 1 Käfer. All in all, 21.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2009

HAB), Honda’s automobile production and sales subsidiary in Brazil, began sales of the City FFV (Fuel Flexible Vehicle) in Brazil. The production of the model is underway at HAB’s plant. The company is planning to begin export of this model to Mexico and other countries of South America starting from September 2009.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2014

The 2015 Fit will be manufactured for the first time in North America at the new Celaya, Mexico plant. With an annual capacity of 200,000 units, the facility will begin mass production of the 2015 Fit next month, adding production of an all-new small Honda SUV later in the year. Engines Fuel Efficiency'

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2012

Fiat has boosted its interest in the Chrysler Group by another 5% following Chrysler’s achievement of the “Ecological Event”—receiving regulatory approval for an automobile based on a Fiat platform or vehicle technology having a fuel efficiency rating of at least 40 combined miles per gallon (5.88 Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Zoltek is a large two carbon fiber manufacturer; large tow carbon fiber is carbon fiber with 40,000 or more filaments applied for applications such as wind turbine blades and reinforced plastics compounds, and is produced on modified acrylic staple fiber production lines for textiles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Hachigo joined Honda in 1982, and began his career in its automobile research and development operations, principally as an engineer in the area of chassis design. where he became actively involved in the local development of Honda and Acura automobiles. In April 2006, Hachigo became Operating Officer of Honda R&D Co.,

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Baua Electric

JULY 26, 2023

Global manufacturers, together with Nissan and alternative Jap manufacturers corresponding to Mitsubishi and Toyota, are suffering in China, the place they have got trailed home competition in assembly booming call for for electrical automobiles. ” If Nissan starts transport automobiles from China, Japan’s Disagree.

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

to be site for electric car production "New Mexico's biggest city will be home to an automobile assembly facility for Tesla Motors' all-electric, four-door, five-passenger sedan that will sell for at least $50,000." "The And GM keeps telling us the batteries aren't ready. AP via the Detroit News Link Albuquerque, N.M.,

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Baua Electric

MAY 12, 2023

The Q5 e is assembled in Mexico and went on sale within the U.S. gross sales had been crossovers — and its day product plan, the Tiguan or the Atlas would absolute best are compatible the invoice, with the Tiguan edging forward in hypothesis handiest on account of its product cycle, which has it due for a redesign in 2025.

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EV Central

MARCH 26, 2023

While Izera concepts were first shown in 2024, its factory in Jaworzno (Poland) won’t start construction until 2024 with first production cars rolling off the line in 2025. SEV backing and production is initially coming from China, but there are plans to set up local manufacturing in Mexico. Moskvitch 2023 Moskvitch 3.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Audi has opened its e-gas plant in Werlte, making it the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy carriers. Water and oxygen are the only by-products. The efficient use of energy flows is the top priority in the production sequence of the plant. Audi’s e-gas plant. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2012

Representatives from automakers are meeting with Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin and procurement experts to ask questions surrounding a recently issued multi-state request for proposal (RFP) for affordable and functional compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles for use in state automobile fleets.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2015

Despite growing concerns about an economic slowdown in China, demand for new automobiles continues to be driven by rising vehicle ownership in tier 2 and 3 cities, especially for CUVs, which are advancing by 40% per annum, the report noted. million units, up from an estimated 18.1 million units in 2014. Asia as a whole will see 33.75

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

The Board of Directors of Volkswagen Group of America has decided to award the production of its new midsize SUV to the Chattanooga plant in Tennessee. The Group will be investing a total of approximately US$900 million (€643 million) in the production of the newly developed, seven-passenger SUV, creating 2,000 additional jobs in the US.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2012

Participating states include: Oklahoma, Colorado, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Utah, Maine, New Mexico, West Virginia, Kentucky, Texas, Ohio, Mississippi and Louisiana.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2022

signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Automobile & PCB establishing strategic investment and cooperation between NEO and A&P to advance the Korean mass production facility of NEO’s silicon anode materials for electric vehicle (EV) lithium-ion batteries. NEO Battery Materials Ltd. NEO Battery Materials Ltd.

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Baua Electric

JULY 25, 2023

TOKYO – Nissan has assuredly to speculate as much as 600 million euros ($663 million) in Renault’s electrical automobile derivative Ampere underneath a finalized trade in to restructure the corporations’ longstanding alliance. Beneath a initial commitment introduced Feb.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 6, 2023

Two executives are retiring: Kiersten Robinson, common supervisor of nation cars and president of Mexico and Canada for Ford Blue, on July 1; and Jonathan Jennings, vice chairman of provide chain, as of Aug. Door’s hiring is a part of a minor government workforce shakeup introduced Tuesday through Ford. Robinson nearest day.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2020

The regulation has already had an impact on production, as the transition directly from BS4 to BS6, in line with the Supreme Court’s deadline, meant that BS4 models could no longer be registered and many manufacturers were left with unsold factory and dealer stock. million units in March, which represented a growth of 427%.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2009

Delphi Powertrain, Rochester, NY – engine management systems and related products. valve train products. automotive electronics and related products. Fiat Automobiles SpA, Hyundai Motor Co. Fiat Automobiles SpA, Hyundai Motor Co. Delphi Powertrain Systems Grand Rapids, Wyoming, MI. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2010

Nidec believes that EMC’s large industrial motors, medium-size central air conditioning motors, related motion control technologies and the developing main motors for electric vehicle and hybrid electric vehicles, will not only expand Nidec’s current product portfolio, but also contribute to further stabilizing volatility in its profitability.

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