Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Cummins will expand PEM electrolyzer manufacturing capacity at its Oevel, Belgium, factory to 1 gigawatt with the support from the Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) Hy2Tech program. The expansion in Belgium adds to Cummins’ already scaling global electrolyzer manufacturing footprint.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2022

Phillips 66 and H2 Energy Europe have closed on a 50-50 joint venture to set up and operate a network of hydrogen refueling retail sites in Germany, Austria and Denmark. The company intends to supply its sites with green hydrogen and build relationships with customers and original equipment manufacturers.

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Electric Cars Report

DECEMBER 25, 2023

BYD, Chinese leading electric vehicle manufacturer, announced the next stage of its European strategy with the construction of a brand-new manufacturing and production centre in Szeged, Hungary.

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Hungary BYD Europe Building 104

Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2023

Volkswagen’s PowerCo SE plans to introduce an electrode dry-coating manufacturing process in its battery cell production plants in Europe and Northern America. As a result, two of four process steps in electrode manufacturing become obsolete. As a result, the exterior length of the plant can be reduced by about 100 meters.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 13, 2024

A new report explores how Europe can successfully build a sustainable battery value chain Executive summary As Europe is decarbonising its economy, it is facing a monumental challenge to rebuild the fossil-based system into a carbon free one. Batteries and the materials that go into making them are central to.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

Volvo Cars formally inaugurated a new battery assembly line at its Belgian manufacturing plant in Ghent, where it will start building its first fully electric car, the XC40 Recharge P8, later this year. The Ghent plant will provide important learnings to other manufacturing sites in terms of process optimisation and efficiency.

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Volvo Manufacturer Batteries Battery 530

Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2020

OXIS Energy and the Minas Gerais Development Company CODEMGE have signed a 15-year lease agreement with Mercedes Benz Brazil (MBB) to take possession of a plant located at the MBB manufacturing site in Juiz de Fora in southeast Brazil to build a Li-sulfur battery manufacturing operation. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Brazil Manufacturer Lithium Sulfur Building 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2023

The new technology center will focus on technical collaboration with customers in order to accelerate application innovation for Cabot’s battery materials product lines within Europe. The EMEA Technology Center is expected to commence operations by April 2023, with a planned expansion to be completed in 2024.

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Corporation Europe Batteries Battery 210

InsideEVs

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The Chinese manufacturer already offers five models in Europe, and plans to add three more in 2024.

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Teslarati

MAY 30, 2024

BYD’s strategy to take over Europe was recently revealed in a report by Reuters. Below are the strategies BYD and Chinese automakers are implementing to deploy their vehicles in Europe. China-based car manufacturers are also strengthening and expanding repair-and-service operations to enhance after-sales care in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2023

Advent is the largest manufacturer of HT-PEM fuel cell systems targeting emerging markets in the field of sustainable and decentralized energy such as stationary power that can replace diesel generators, marine power from e-methanol fuel cells and heavy-duty mobility.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2022

The Volkswagen Group’s Supervisory Board has approved a new manufacturing facility for the Trinity electric model. Construction work in the Warmenau district of Wolfsburg is to begin as early as spring 2023 and will take account of building and environmental law. Earlier post.)

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Manufacturer Standards Building All-Electric 333

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

China’s success results from its large domestic battery demand—72GWh—and control of 80% of the world’s raw material refining, 77% of the world’s cell capacity and 60% of the world’s component manufacturing, according to data from BNEF. In 2020, Japan and Korea rank number two and three respectively.

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Teslarati

JUNE 4, 2024

After a $2 billion investment in Germany that transformed one of its most historic plants into a “factory of the future,” Ford has officially started building the all-new Explorer EV, expanding its lineup of all-electric SUVs. The post Ford launches mass production of Explorer EV in Europe appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2022

ICPT ), a manufacturer of battery systems for transportation, robotics and stationary energy storage in Europe, has begun construction of GigafactoryX. It sells its battery systems in Europe, New Zealand and the United States. Poland-based Impact Clean Power Technology S.A. Impact Clean Power Technology S.A.

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Poland Clean Cleaning Power 305

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2022

The new gigafactory increases Northvolt’s pipeline of battery manufacturing capacity under development to more than 170 GWh. If you use coal in your production, you embed a fair amount of CO 2 into your battery, but if we use clean energy, we can build a very sustainable product. —Peter Carlsson, Co-Founder and CEO.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Just weeks after reports stating Ford was considering selling its German manufacturing facility to BYD, the Chinese automaker appears more keen on erecting its own EV facility in Europe, according to an executive at the company. Here’s the latest.

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BYD Europe Building Ford 110

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

The Nikkei reports that Japan-based motor maker Nidec is planning to invest an estimated ¥100 billion (US$715 million) to build an e-axle plant in Mexico. The company is currently producing e-axles in China and Europe but will start making them in North America as well ahead of an expected surge in demand. million e-axles.

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Mexico Building North America Automobile 259

Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2022

will build a 35-tons-per-day green hydrogen generation plant at Port of Antwerp-Bruges in the heart of Europe. Plug signed a 30-year concession agreement to build the plant at the Belgian port, the second-largest in Europe. Port of Antwerp-Bruges sits in a strategic location in Europe. Plug Power Inc.

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Hydrogen Plug Green Building 259

Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2021

billion in equity and debt to enable an expansion plan leading up to and beyond 150 GWh of deployed annual production capacity in Europe by 2030. Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE and Morgan Stanley & Co. Including the private placement, Northvolt has now raised more than $6.5 International plc act as financial advisors to Northvolt.

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Manufacturer Batteries Battery Sweden 243

InsideEVs

JULY 5, 2023

SAIC, an automaker owned by the Chinese government, announced that it's seeking a location to build its EVs in Europe.

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Europe Manufacturer Chinese Building 74

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Rock Tech Lithium intends to build Europe’s first lithium converter—a production plant for battery-grade lithium hydroxide—in Guben, Brandenburg, Germany. The company intends to locate all production steps of lithium refining in one overall plant at the Guben site. The converter is scheduled to start operations in 2024.

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Convert Germany Building Lithium Ion 524

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2022

NTT DATA Corporation and DENSO Corporation have started to build an industry-wide ecosystem for electric vehicle (EV) batteries to create a global trusted dataspaces where only necessary data can be shared, while also protecting private data. Overview of the Global Trusted Dataspaces.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2022

(LEAD) announced that it has been contracted by Volkswagen to supply battery manufacturing equipment for Salzgitter, accounting for more than 65% of the total equipment quantity for that 20 GWh gigafactory. Volkswagen has announced it will invest €30 billion to build 6 battery factories in Europe.

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Manufacturer Batteries Battery China 195

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The strategy is centred around two main technology routes, as introduced in the first ArcelorMittal Europe climate action report published earlier this year: The use of hydrogen in DRI-EAF (Direct Reduced Iron - Electric Arc Furnace) and, also, the blast furnace. The expansion of its Smart Carbon route, also utilizing hydrogen.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 12, 2022

Chinese battery manufacturer Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited, or CATL, has announced a massive investment to build a new cell manufacturing plant in Europe. billion to build a 100 GWh battery plant in Hungary. CATL announced on Friday that it would invest €7.34 ” I’d love to hear from you!

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Tesla FSD (Full Self-Driving) Beta’s launch in Europe might have gained some traction after the United Nations Economic Commission (UNECE) for Europe added DCAS (Driver Control Assistance Systems) regulations to its provisional agenda. Tesla has been working on releasing FSD Beta in Europe for some time.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Daimler Truck AG, IVECO, OMV, Shell and the Volvo Group have committed to work together to help create the conditions for the mass-market roll-out of hydrogen trucks in Europe. During the decade, these clusters can then be interconnected to build a truly pan-European network. Europe-Wide Coverage. 100s of trucks. >20

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Hydrogen Europe Market Industrial 321

Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2022

Umicore plans to construct a manufacturing facility for cathode active battery materials (CAM) and their precursor materials (pCAM) in Ontario, Canada. Umicore is in negotiations with several potential customers for production contracts in North America.

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Canada North America Building Poland 384

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Groupe Renault is launching its “Advanced Battery Storage” program, which aims to build the biggest energy stationary storage system using EV batteries yet designed in Europe by 2020 (power: 70 MW / energy: 60MWh). It will have a storage capacity of at least 60 MWh, making it the biggest system of its kind ever built in Europe.

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Europe Energy Building Batteries 300

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2023

Volvo Trucks leads the market in Europe and in North America for heavy electric trucks after the first quarter of 2023. In total, the manufacturer has sold almost 5,000 electric trucks in about 40 countries. Most of these orders came from countries in the northern part of Europe, including the Netherlands, Germany, Norway and Sweden.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 30, 2024

MUNICH & PFORZHEIM, Germany — Visitors to The smarter E Europe, Europe’s Largest Alliance of Exhibitions for the Energy Industry, will find out how private consumers can become self-sufficient in electricity, heat and transport in a smart way and how this creates new business opportunities for installers and system providers.

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Europe Germany Cars Installation 118

Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2020

The company just opened a separate Battery Cell Competence Center in Munich in November 2019, covering the entire battery cell value chain, from research and development to battery cell composition and design, all the way to large-scale manufacturability. Umicore will contribute to development of a sustainable battery cell in Europe.

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Li-ion BMW Building Sweden 338

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

bec, North America’s largest renewable energy producer, is establishing a new manufacturing facility in A?ma?l, This new operation will add to Dana’s portfolio of global electrodynamic facilities and will be the company’s largest of these facilities in Europe. Dana TM4, the joint venture between Dana Incorporated and Hydro-Que?bec,

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Sweden Building Renewable Manufacturer 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2023

Among the deals: June 2023: Australian startup European Lithium and Saudi Arabia’s Obeikan Investment Group announced an agreement to create a joint venture to build and operate a lithium hydroxide refinery in Saudi Arabia. Earlier post.) The mine is set to produce 3,610 tonnes (LCE) of lithium per year by 2030, as assessed by Benchmark.

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Saudi Arabia Supplies Building Chevron 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2023

Tata Sons will build a 40GW battery cell gigafactory in the United Kingdom (UK). billion), will deliver electric mobility and renewable energy storage solutions for customers in UK and Europe. The investment of more than £4 billion (US$5.2 JLR and Tata Motors will be anchor customers, with supplies commencing from 2026.

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Building United Kingdom Energy Storage Renewable 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2022

BWP, LiCAP and Siemens have entered a strategic partnership to manufacture and commercialize innovative dry electrode manufacturing systems for the battery cell industry. BW Papersystems (BWP), a division of Barry-Wehmiller, is a capital equipment manufacturer for multiple industries. LiCAP Technologies, Inc.

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