Electric Cars Report
APRIL 13, 2024
The BMW Group is strengthening its involvement in Brazil by electrifying the Araquari plant. Following a record sales for electrified vehicles in Brazil last year, the BMW Group announced local production of the BMW X5, the very first premium plug-in hybrid model built in South America.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 31, 2021
To support its accelerated expansion of e-mobility in the coming years, the BMW Group will source lithium from a second leading supplier, US-based Livent. Livent will supply the lithium directly to the BMW Group’s battery cell manufacturers from 2022 on. The value of the multi-year contract will total around €285 million.
Green Car Congress
JULY 3, 2014
The BMW Group will invest $1 billion to build a new plant in Mexico in close proximity to the city of San Luis Potosí in the state of the same name. We have been building BMW cars at our US plant in Spartanburg for the past 20 years. The Americas are among the most important growth markets for the BMW Group.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 14, 2018
A leading global transportation services provider, Penske operates more than 270,000 vehicles and serves customers from more than 1,000 locations in North America, South America, Europe, Australia and Asia. Penske Truck Leasing Co., The Charging Interface Initiative e.V. CharIN e.V)
Green Car Congress
JUNE 23, 2023
General Motors Company’s plant in San Luis, Potosi, Mexico, which produces the Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain, receives the Gold Plant Quality Award for North/South America. BMW AG’s plant in Born, Netherlands, which produces the MINI Cooper and MINI Countryman, receives the Gold Plant Quality Award for Europe and Africa.
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
European consumers have no inkling of Chinese brands,” Daniel Kirchert, the head of e-mobility consultancy Noyo and former BMW executive, told Automotive News Europe. And now, BYD is setting up its BYD-only shop in Germany. Electrek reported yesterday that BYD had just signed a preliminary land purchase deal for its EV plant in Hungary.
Baua Electric
MARCH 6, 2024
Meanwhile, the US and Europe have been tightening their rules on Chinese cars and EV parts being sold in their countries, with tariffs so high in the US that China has turned its focus on other areas, namely South America, Asia, and Europe. But now Europe may enforce its own tariffs.
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