Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Van Hool, an independent Belgian manufacturer of buses, coaches and industrial vehicles, has shipped the first CX45E, a 100% battery electric coach, to the US. The CX45E is a fully electric powered coach for the North American market. The CX45E will mainly be used for commuting by groups of employees and/or regular passenger transport.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2019

At the end of March 2019, Hynamics teams have identified and are working on some 40 target projects, in France as well as other European countries including Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. In 2018, EDF consolidated its interest in the emerging low-carbon hydrogen market by acquiring a 21.7%

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Series production of Volvo’s heaviest electric trucks will start in the Tuve factory in Gothenburg, Sweden and next year the factory in Ghent, Belgium will follow. Volvo Trucks’ electric portfolio could cover around 45% of all goods transported in Europe today, according to Eurostat statistics. —Roger Alm.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2022

Van Hool, the Belgian manufacturer of buses, coaches and industrial vehicles, presented its first edition of a completely new range of 100% zero emission buses on the first day of Euro Mobility Expo 2022, an international trade show for public transport. The company was founded in 1947 and celebrates its 75 th anniversary in 2022.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2022

At an event held at its steel plant in Ghent, Belgium, ArcelorMittal inaugurated its flagship carbon capture and utilization (CCU) project. The ethanol will be jointly marketed by ArcelorMittal and LanzaTech under the Carbalyst brand name. Earlier post.) It will reduce annual carbon emissions from the Ghent plant by 125,000 tonnes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2022

Plug will produce up to 12,500 tons per year of liquid and gaseous green hydrogen for the European market. At the center of the largest chemical industry cluster in Europe and close to the North Sea, it provides transportation connections to Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, UK, and France. million tons of barge freight.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

3-cylinder turbo engine from the GR Corolla with high-pressure hydrogen direct injection engine technology from motorsport activity, and adding the hydrogen tank packaging know-how from Mirai, Toyota was able to create a Corolla Cross H2 hydrogen prototype that can transport 5 passengers and their luggage. By equipping the 1.6l

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a major expansion driven by the seemingly insatiable demands of AI, the addition of more intelligence in transportation, and national security concerns, among many other things. So the global chip market is projected to have a 7 percent compound annual growth rate in the next coming years.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Umicore will build an industrial scale recycling facility for end-of-life rechargeable batteries in Hoboken, Belgium. By 2012 in the European Union, for example, 25% of all portable batteries placed on the market will have to be collected and recycled. This figure will rise to 45 % by 2016.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The project, called “European Battery Innovation” (EuBatIn) was jointly prepared and notified by Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. The twelve Member States will provide up to €2.9 billion (US$3.5 billion) in funding in the coming years. billion in public support.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

After about a year of intensive practical use by ten customers in Germany and Switzerland, eight of the purely battery-powered Mercedes-Benz eActros trucks are now successively going to new customers in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. —Andreas von Wallfeld, Head of Marketing, Sales and Services Mercedes-Benz Trucks.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

With this gigafactory, Umicore is leading the way in battery materials in Europe offering key ingredients for a responsible and sustainable value chain for electric transport.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2023

With HVO the CO 2 footprint of the mtu systems for dynamic uninterruptible power supply (DUPS) can be reduced by up to 90% (depending on the fuel’s manufacturing process and feedstock), particulate emissions by up to 80% and nitrogen oxide emissions by up to eight percent compared to fossil diesel.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

The first plants will produce engineering plastics and thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) to serve the increasing needs of various growth industries in the southern China market and throughout Asia. BASF plans to implement a comprehensive smart manufacturing concept at the Verbund site. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2018

Vehicle electrification is rapidly advancing; for heavy trucks and buses, continued development of both charging infrastructure as well as more robust, cost efficient and sustainable battery cells is crucially needed for a widespread market breakthrough in commercially viable electrification. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2018

Van Hool, the Belgium-based independent bus, coach and industrial vehicles manufacturer, has landed a significant contract with RVK Köln and WSW Wuppertal (Germany), to supply 40 hydrogen buses of the latest generation. Van Hool has been building hydrogen buses for the American market since 2005 and for the European market since 2007.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2018

Aleris has been an important supplier of aluminum to premium car manufacturers in Europe as they have embraced greater aluminum use as a means to lightweight vehicles and meet increasingly stringent fuel-efficiency standards. Novelis Inc., billion including the assumption of debt.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The consultancy estimates that the market earned revenues of more than $111.7 By 2014, nearly 38% of vehicles in North America will feature TPMS—a 13% increase from 2011—thus, increasing the addressable market size. In the EU, transportation laws require vehicles to have an active TPMS. million by 2018.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2019

The advanced performance materials help electronics, consumer products and automotive manufacturers reduce weight, improve safety and efficiency. This entity will oversee the operations of the new Verbund site, underlining BASF’s commitment to the southern China market.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2016

ENGIE, a global operator in electricity, natural gas and energy services markets, will invest nearly €100 million from now to 2020 to build Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) stations for filling up the European fleets of trucks with natural gas and biogas.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2021

Almost half of the railway lines in the European Union are electrified and enable local emission-free rail transport. The EU project FCH2RAIL (Fuel Cell Hybrid Power Pack for Rail Applications) consortium—with partners from Belgium, Germany, Spain and Portugal—is developing and testing a new zero-emission train prototype.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

The first plants will produce engineering plastics and thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) to serve the increasing needs of various growth industries in the southern China market and throughout Asia. BASF plans to implement a comprehensive smart manufacturing concept at the Verbund site. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2017

Energy storage company Leclanché SA and Škoda Electric, a manufacturer of electric drives and traction motors for trolley and electric buses, have signed a Joint Development Agreement and Framework Purchase Contract through which Leclanché will provide Škoda Electric with battery solutions for its electric bus expansion strategy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2018

The cargo eBikes will operate in the historic Pike Place Market and downtown Seattle area on sidewalks and in designated bike lanes. Developed in collaboration with Silver Eagle Manufacturing using Truck Trikes, the cargo eBike system will have removable cargo containers that are deployed via a specially designed trailer.

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Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Tesla Inc urged the Prime Minister’s Office to cut down the import taxes on electric vehicles before it enters the market. In July it requests tax cuts and prompted objections from several local players who said that it would discourage investment in domestic manufacturing.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When “replacing oil with electricity” has become a trend, the transportation industry has maintained the era of fuel oil for hundreds of years, but it is also undergoing subversive changes. Behind the popularity of charging piles in the oil circle, the transportation industry is undergoing a major change unseen in a century.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

Volvo says it will build about 250 cars by the end of 2012, possibly more if market interest takes off. The Volvo C30 Electric will be manufactured and delivered to leasing customers throughout Europe, including in Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The new Panamera plug-in hybrid models were launched on the European market in June 2017. In France, for example, the figure is 70%, in Austria it is more than 80% and in Belgium it is even more than 90%. The existing engine plant is being expanded to manufacture electric drives. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 13, 2022

I’ve followed the European electric car and EV charger market for a decade. Nonetheless, I was shocked to see the figure that just came out from an EU EV charging analysis conducted by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) — “half of all charging points for electric […].

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2015

million) project is coordinated by steelmaker Arcelormittal Belgium NV. Steelanol’s main objective is to demonstrate the cost-effective production of sustainable bioethanol, with the purpose of assessing the valorization of this ethanol biofuel as a fuel derivative for the transport sector. million (US$16.3-million) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2015

This allows manufacturers of electric buses to reduce the weight of their vehicle, improve the energy efficiency, and design a lower cost electric bus. In July 2014 ABB announced that it signed a global cooperation with Volvo bus to jointly market fast chargers and buses.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2011

Ethylene, with a $160-billion market, is a valuable commodity two-carbon chemical that can also be oligomerized into transportation fuels. Within the agreement, Total will continue its work on the optimization of the catalyst formulation at the research center in Feluy, Belgium. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Volvo Car Corporation has ordered more than 250 electric drivetrain systems to power the C30 Electric ( earlier post ) from BRUSA Elektronik AG; more may be built, based on market interest.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Leeds researchers led by Professor Oliver Carsten from the Institute for Transport Studies will work with transport research centers across Europe, as well as several leading vehicle manufacturers, to design and test the devices, which could be on the market within 5 years.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2010

The countries covered in this research service are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Eco-innovations will count for up to 7 grams of manufacturers’ fleet targets. Smaller charges between €5 and €25 for excesses of 1 – 3 g/km.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

A new study by Transport & Environment (T&E) shows that Volkswagen is currently selling the least polluting (Euro 6) diesel vehicles. million) and Belgium (1.4 However, the report “ Dieselgate: Who? also found that no brand in Europe complies with the latest Euro 6 air pollution limits for diesel cars and vans in real-world driving.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

GaN-based devices can overcome these limits due to a unique combination of excellent transport properties and high electrical field operation capability. IMEC is inviting both integrated device manufacturers and companies in the compound semiconductor industry to join the program. Marianne Germain, GaN program director.

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