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Volvo Group to produce battery modules in Ghent by 2025

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In 2025, Volvo Group’s truck plant in Ghent, Belgium will start to produce battery modules. To date, partners supply both cells and modules to the Group. The investment decision to install battery module manufacturing capacity in Ghent is another important step for the Volvo Group to shape its future value chain for battery systems.

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Volvo Trucks opens its first battery plant; cells and modules from Samsung SDI

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Located in Ghent, Belgium, the plant will supply ready-to-install batteries for Volvo Trucks’ full electric heavy-duty trucks. With the rapid development of charging networks, and improvements in battery technology, I am convinced that we will see a rapid transformation of the entire truck industry in the very near future.

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Audi switching from truck to rail for battery delivery

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The switch in means of delivery between Hungary and Brussels, which was started in May and is scheduled to be completed by the beginning of 2023, is a preview of the car manufacturer’s future. —Dieter Braun, Head of Supply Chain at Audi AG. In the future, preferably all production sites will implement this solution.

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Volvo Group to produce battery modules in Ghent by 2025

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In 2025, Volvo Group’s truck plant in Ghent, Belgium will start to produce battery modules. To date, partners supply both cells and modules to the Group. The investment decision to install battery module manufacturing capacity in Ghent is another important step for the Volvo Group to shape its future value chain for battery systems.

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Volvo Cars building €1.2B EV manufacturing plant in Slovakia; third in Europe

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Volvo Cars will build a third manufacturing plant in Europe, positioning the company well to meet the continued demand from its customers for electric cars and capture future growth potential. Construction of the Kosice plant is planned to start in 2023, with equipment and production lines installed during 2024.

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Brussels plant kicks off production for the new Audi Q8 e-tron

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Audi is focusing on transforming production from the inside out with the aim of heralding the future of production at Audi, the 360factory. Named “Factory of the Future” in 2020 by the employers’ association Agoria, Brussels achieved this distinction as early as 2018. AUDI AG has owned the Belgium site since 2007.

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BMW Group to lead €19.5M HyCET project consortium on hydrogen combustion engine trucks

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The use of green hydrogen produced from renewable energies could thus enable CO 2 -free long-distance logistics in the future. As part of the HyCET project, this engine will be installed in an 18-tonne truck to demonstrate its practicality for mobile applications. The HyCET research project will have an investment volume of €19.5

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