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. Proterra was selected by Van Hool to supply the E2 battery technology and Siemens the traction system. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) approved the funding application for the consortium research project HyCET (Hydrogen Combustion Engine Trucks) led by the BMW Group. The research project aims to demonstrate the sustainability potential of trucks with hydrogen combustion engines for transport logistics.

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Hydrogen BMW Engine Volvo 493

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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Hydrogen Toyota Concept Engine 370

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. The batteries are supplied by Volvo Trucks’ new battery assembly plant in Ghent. By 2030, at least 50 percent of the trucks we sell globally should be electric.

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Volvo Production Belgium Electric 259

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Since production of the Audi e-tron began, the Belgium site has been recognized as the world’s first certified carbon-neutral high-volume production plant in the premium segment. The highly automated manufacture of electric motors in Györ. AUDI AG has owned the Belgium site since 2007. 2018 saw the birth of the Audi e-tron.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2022

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. More than 1,500 acres of covered warehousing at Port of Antwerp-Bruges supports heavy manufacturing industries. million tons of barge freight.

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Hydrogen Plug Green Building 259

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The gigafactory will supply battery materials to Umicore’s car and battery cell customers in Europe and marks an important step in achieving the European Union’s ambition of having its own battery ecosystem that is both sustainable and competitive on a global scale.

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Poland Europe Batteries Battery 273

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 if there are— you have power in your purchasing, you have power over how you choose your supply chain.

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Climate Manufacturer Emissions Industrial 74

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The buyer is public transport company TEC Group. ABB will supply 4 charging stations to Charleroi and 8 charging stations for Namur. Once the 35 new buses take to the roads, 90% of Namur’s public transport will be electrified. The charging stations will be delivered by ABB.

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Volvo Belgium Hybrid Charging 150

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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Diesel Renewable Energy Storage Belgium 195

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. Lithium-ion batteries with 240 kWh supply the energy for the eActros.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Volvo Group’s truck plant in Ghent, Belgium, has announced that in 2025 it will start to produce battery modules. So far, the group has been dependent on partners to supply both cells and modules to the group.

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Volvo Belgium Batteries Battery 98

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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Batteries Battery Supplies Electric 170

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

By 2022, the new engineering plastics compounding plant will supply an additional capacity of 60,000 metric tons per year in China, bringing BASF’s total capacity of these products in Asia Pacific to 290,000 metric tons per year. BASF plans to implement a comprehensive smart manufacturing concept at the Verbund site.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The first wave of auditing includes sites in Belgium, Germany, Spain and France with others to follow. In 2020, ResponsibleSteel will launch a standard for the certification of steel products, which will include stringent requirements for raw materials supply chain.

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Europe Belgium Climate Change Spain 207

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2018

Different transport application will require different electric powertrains. We aim to make it easy for customers to select sustainable transport solutions. Electrification will play a key part in the shift to a fossil free transport system. —Peter Carlsson, Co-Founder and CEO of Northvolt. Earlier post.).

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Sweden Sustainable Transportation Vehicles Li-ion 240

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2016

This contribution to strengthening the LNG and CNG distribution infrastructures in Europe will rely on ENGIE’s active involvement with stakeholders—the truck manufacturers as well as the national and European authorities—committing to move to alternative fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

BRUSA not only provides the hybrid-synchronous motor, but also supplies all other drivetrain components such as the motor controller and battery charger. kW charger charges the battery at household 230 V outlets in six to eight hours (at 16 Amp) or ten hours (at 10 Amp). The 24 kWh battery pack—of which 22.7

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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. With to the hybrid power source, the buses, with a tank capacity of 38.2

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Hydrogen Germany Europe Fuel 284

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

By 2022, the new engineering plastics compounding plant will supply an additional capacity of 60,000 metric tons per year in China, bringing BASF’s total capacity of these products in Asia Pacific to 290,000 metric tons per year. BASF plans to implement a comprehensive smart manufacturing concept at the Verbund site.

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China Asia Belgium 2018 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2019

By 2022, the new engineering plastics compounding plant will supply an additional capacity of 60,000 metric tons per year of BASF engineering plastics compounds in China. The advanced performance materials help electronics, consumer products and automotive manufacturers reduce weight, improve safety and efficiency.

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Engine Building China Asia 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2011

These convert the DC supply voltage to the AC voltage used in the system. These supply power to the inverters. The new center of excellence is located at Bombardier’s engineering and manufacturing site in Mannheim, Germany, which will also have an advanced testing and development facility opening in September 2011.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles Charging Electric 244

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

Potential applications include high-power switching in solar converters, motor drives, hybrid electrical vehicles or switch mode power supplies. GaN-based devices can overcome these limits due to a unique combination of excellent transport properties and high electrical field operation capability.

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Industrial Industry Power Powered 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

Participating countries will establish pilot projects in several cities for the demonstration of electric vehicles in public transportation and government use. Each participating government will share experiences from at least one of its cities that pilots electric vehicles in the public transportation sector or in government fleets.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

It’s been 25 years since University of Delaware energy and environmental expert Willett Kempton and Green Mountain College energy economist Steve Letendre outlined what they saw as a “dawning interaction between electric-drive vehicles and the electric supply system.” Kempton and Letendre’s. Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images.

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Grid Vehicles Solar Netherlands 92

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Currently being sold to the road transport market in a low-carbon fuel blend, ethanol from this facility will now be converted into PET to be used for production of CarbonSmart consumer goods (T-shirts, bottles, packaging). Ethanol is a clean, easily transported and easily convertible liquid that can displace fresh carbon resources.

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New Zealand China Gas Convert 249

Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2021

With speed to market at the heart of the strategy, Volta Trucks will offer a wide range of full-electric commercial vehicles at a time of scarce supply of comparable full electric vehicles from new start-ups and the established vehicle manufacturers.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2015

Ballard Power Systems and Van Hool, partners in the deployment of numerous fuel cell buses in Europe ( earlier post ), are in the process of finalizing an equipment supply agreement (ESA) for the provision by Ballard of 21 next-generation fuel cell power modules for the buses.

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Fuel Power Powered Hydrogen 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2020

According the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), about 20% of cobalt supplied from the DRC comes from artisanal mines, where human rights abuses have been reported, and up to 40,000 children work in extremely dangerous conditions in the mines for meagre income.

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Batteries Battery Production Zambia 545