Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2022

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 new high-tech module factory will consist of an almost fully automated process with robots.

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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. The new site will utilize automated packaging, high-tech control systems, and automated guided vehicles.

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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. The new site will utilize automated packaging, high-tech control systems, and automated guided vehicles.

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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. These high-tech vehicles will be built in the Van Hool factory in Koningshooikt.

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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.” Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images. Amassing that fleet wasn’t easy.

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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 site would ultimately be the third-largest BASF site worldwide, following Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Antwerp, Belgium.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

Its largest markets included China, Germany, the US, the UK, Sweden, France, Norway, and Belgium. VW faced several supply chain issues that extended delivery times and are now being worked out. VW’s updated EVs feature longer range and added tech. in 2023, with around 394,000 EVs handed over. VW delivered around 30,000 ID.4

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