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BASF to build engineering plastics and thermoplastic polyurethanes plants at new $10B Verbund site in Zhanjiang

Green Car Congress

BASF plans to build an engineering plastics compounding plant and a thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) plant at the company’s proposed integrated chemical production (“Verbund”) site in Zhanjiang, China. The site would ultimately be the third-largest BASF site worldwide, following Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Antwerp, Belgium.

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BASF launches $10B Verbund project in China

Green Car Congress

BASF officially launched its smart Verbund project in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, China, and commenced building its first plants. BASF plans to implement a comprehensive smart manufacturing concept at the Verbund site. The new site will utilize automated packaging, high-tech control systems, and automated guided vehicles.

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BASF launches $10B Verbund project in China

Green Car Congress

BASF officially launched its smart Verbund project in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, China, and commenced building its first plants. BASF plans to implement a comprehensive smart manufacturing concept at the Verbund site. The new site will utilize automated packaging, high-tech control systems, and automated guided vehicles.

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Polestar 7 to replace Polestar 2 in EV line-up to avoid Volkswagen Golf-like fate

Baua Electric

The Polestar 2 is already a market leader in several regions like Norway, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, and others. As much as we might build a very similar car, because it has a different number, we won’t have this natural trap where we’re boxed into that concept of what the car had been,” Ingenlath explained.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

Cars That Think

We want to predict where we need to build the next electric charging station.”. So it’s a good moment to consider where vehicle-to-grid concepts first emerged and to see in Utrecht how far they’ve come. But from the time Kempton and Letendre outlined the concept, potential users also feared losing money, through battery wear and tear.

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Fantastic 5: 2024 Renault 5 teased in production form ahead of its launch at the Geneva motor show

EV Central

The 2024 Renault 5 hatch has been previewed for the first time following the French car-maker releasing multiple images that give us a glimpse of how it will evolve the 2021 concept-car fantasy into production-car reality. It all ensures the R5 is up to 30 per cent cheaper to build compared to the outgoing Renault ZOE.

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Canoo Pickup, Kia EV6, Honda and Mini EV Plans: EV Week in Review – Mar 9-15

EV Adoption

The X Prologue will be the first Toyota EV concept released outside China. Mullen will also spend about $26 million renovating the building at the site, which was formerly inhabited by Nike but has been vacant for the past five years. That facility was previously used by electric car manufacturer Green Tech Automotive.

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