Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2023

Higher EV penetration reduces GHG emissions from fuel use regardless of the transportation energy transition, while those from fuel production are more sensitive to energy-sector decarbonization and could reach nearly “net zero” by 2040. NMC/NCA scenario illustrates that the market share of NMC/NCA will increase to 100% by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Constellium SE is supplying aluminum auto body sheet solutions for the Mercedes-Benz C-Class produced in Europe, China, and South Africa and sold around the world. Constellium and Mercedes-Benz AG share a long history and we are proud to be a global partner on their Mercedes-Benz C-Class.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

This year Nissan will export the South African built Navara pickup trucks to new markets of Algeria, Libya, Sudan, Tunisia and Egypt, Nissan Africa product Marketing Director Stefan Haasbroek said. Africa is the world’s last remaining automotive frontier due to the low level of vehicle ownership.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2022

Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, and Veolia recently signed a long-term partnership agreement on the refining of crude methanol generated in pulp production at the Äänekoski bioproduct mill into commercial biomethanol. The Kraft pulping process transforms wood chips into pulp, from which a broad range of paper products are made.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

earlier post ) has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with ACIA Aero Leasing (ACIA), a regional aircraft lessor with offices in Ireland, France, Canada, Mauritius, and South Africa. Following the aircraft conversions, Universal Hydrogen and ACIA will collaborate on marketing hydrogen fuel services to ACIA’s leasing customers.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Russia-based RUSAL, a global aluminum producer, opened the first phase of its low-carbon aluminum production plant, Taishet Aluminum Smelter (TaAZ), in Taishet, Siberia. Approximately one quarter of production will serve the domestic Russian market. of global production of aluminum and 6.5%

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Mercedes-Benz is realigning its global passenger cars manufacturing activities and is strengthening its German passenger cars locations with investments worth billions of euros. “ We want to continue to grow and will significantly increase our production capacities in the coming years. billion) this year. —Markus Schäfer.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The JV will spread its reach for an innovative pan-European solution for the commercialized fuel-cell-vehicle market. The IToY Truck Innovation Award is determined by a jury of 25 commercial vehicle editors and senior journalists that represent major trucking magazines from Europe and South Africa.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2009

GE South African Technologies (GESAT), GE Transportation’s entity in South Africa, will supply 100 locomotives to Transnet Freight Rail (TFR). TFR is South Africa’s state-owned rail freight logistics utility; Transnet Limited is its parent company. It feeds the port of Saldanha Bay, for export to a global market.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

China controls the battery chemical industry, with the biggest market share for all of the five main battery materials: lithium, nickel, manganese, cobalt and graphite. Nickel sulfate balance to slip into deficit: The nickel sulfate market remains in balance in the near term, despite the increased demand expected in the next five years.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

South African engineering company Swayana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with LanzaTech to collaborate on developing projects for the production of ethanol and higher value products from waste gases in the ferroalloy and titania smelting sectors. during steel manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The introduction of the one-ton pickup with seating for up to 5 people will make Mercedes-Benz the first premium manufacturer to account for the changing customer requirements in the global segment of mid-size pickups. With the pickup, Mercedes-Benz Vans will also expand its product range with a fourth model series. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Aurizon , Australia’s largest rail freight operator, and leading global mining company Anglo American will work together on a feasibility study to assess the introduction of hydrogen-powered trains for bulk freight. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2011

Axion International, a leading producer of industrial building products and railroad ties made from 100% recycled plastic ( earlier post ), has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) with Sicut Holding Limited (previously Micron Inc. In addition, Axion’s products are completely recyclable at the end of their functional life.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2022

South Africa-based mining and metals group Sibanye-Stillwater acquired an initial 30.29% shareholding in Keliber Oy as announced on 23 February 2021, by way of a phased equity investment. In addition, there has also been a significant improvement in the fundamental outlook for the lithium market. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

A study by Ricardo Strategic Consulting has concluded that while sluggish automotive demand in Europe, Japan and North America will be balanced by the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) markets through 2020, thereafter the ‘Rising-15’ nations become the engine for profitable growth—assuming political stability.

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Blink Charging

APRIL 6, 2023

Needless to say, EV sales are increasing globally. However, there are still challenges ahead, most notably with procuring the raw materials needed for battery production. Manufacturer challenges On the manufacturing side, global demand for EV batteries doubled in 2021, driven largely by China’s EV sales.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2009

Anger, frustration, greed, lack of trust are a few of the many sentiments expressed by consumers and future car buyers globally, according to a recent “Tipping Point” study by Synovate Motoresearch, the automotive division of global market research company Synovate. A time for introspection and balance.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

At this year’s Africa Aerospace & Defence (AAD) expo at AFB Waterkloof in Centurion, Rheinmetall AG is presenting turnkey, mobile modular solutions for producing, storing and transporting CO 2 -free hydrogen. Byproducts such as oxygen can either be used for their own requirements or sold into the global commodity market.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

Mahindra has globally revealed plans for five EVs split into two families – XUV.e “Amongst our priority markets Australia is really up there,” Mahindra Automotive president Veejay Nakra recently told EV Central ‘s Toby Hagon at a recent media event. and BE – starting in 2024 Mahindra’s upcoming EVs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

As the UN climate conference COP21 opened in Paris, Bill Gates announced the formation of the “ Breakthrough energy coalition ”, an investment grouping of global billionaires focused on developing the technologies that will create a new zero-carbon energy mix. —Breakthrough energy coalition. Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures, US.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Another milestone was establishing the first joint production facility COMPAS. Construction will be completed in 2017, followed by preparation for pilot production of Infiniti vehicles. It will be engineered and designed by Daimler to meet the specific needs of its customers in Europe, Australia, South Africa and Latin America.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Steel production could be made with almost no carbon emissions through $278 billion of extra investment by 2050, according to a new report from research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF). Hydrogen and recycling are likely to play a central role in reducing emissions from steel production. Source: BloombergNEF.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2017

After the start in Germany, the test vehicle based on the new production S‑Class is now under test in the heavy traffic and exposed to the special national features in the Chinese megalopolis of Shanghai. million kilometers in Europe, the US, China, Australia and South Africa, and more than 1.2

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EV Central

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Because if all we do is flood the market with BEVs – and New South Wales still has 75 per cent of its power generated by coal – all we have done is shift the emissions from the tailpipe to the power station.” That forthcoming legislation is one reason MMAL has imported a Japan-market ek X EV electric kei to test for market suitability.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2014

The steel-based technology and capital goods group voestalpine’s 17 th production site in the United States began operation , manufacturing ultra-high strength body-in-white components for premium car manufacturers in Cartersville, Georgia. This completes the first phase of the Group’s internationalization program in the automotive sector.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 29, 2024

In addition, another close to 100 exhibitors will be participating in two exclusive Auto Components Pavilions showcasing products and solutions for OEMs, the release said. This insight was revealed ahead of the 5th ACMA Automechanika New Delhi, at the Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2024. times to an estimated USD 14 billion by 2028.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2014

As the world population increases by the estimated 30% from 2010 to 2040, ExxonMobil sees global GDP rising by about 140%, but energy demand by only about 35% due to greater efficiency. The Outlook for Energy provides ExxonMobil’s long-term view of global energy demand and supply. Click to enlarge. Outlook for Energy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2009

Optimal Energy , the Cape Town, South Africa-based company that unveiled the Joule full battery-electric multi-purpose urban passenger vehicle to the world at the Paris Motor Show in 2008 ( earlier post ), plans to have pilot fleets on the road in South Africa and globally from 2010 onwards, with mass production to start in South Africa from 2012.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

At the company’s Capital Markets Day 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Sasol management said that the company will no longer pursue its proposed ) project in the US ( earlier post ) and furthermore will not invest in additional greenfields gas-to-liquids (GTL) projects. —Stephen Cornell. —Stephen Cornell.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

While the number of new clean power-generating plants completed stayed flat year-to-year, the volume of power derived from coal surged to a new high, according to Climatescope , an annual survey of 104 emerging markets conducted by research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF). The decline was not confined to China, however. billion and $2.7

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2016

SDCmaterials, a developer of advanced catalyst products based on a novel materials fabrication and integration platform, announced a partnership and formalized a supply agreement with Car Sound, a leading manufacturer of catalysts and catalytic converters for the automotive aftermarket.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2017

The first step will address topics such as the application of specific market knowledge as well as local development expertise. In the long term, the Volkswagen Group is looking to further expand its product portfolio in the fast-growing emerging markets. Global ŠKODA sales reached 1.3 million cars in 2016.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

Initial assessments of 48 shale gas basins containing almost 70 shale gas formations in 32 countries suggest that shale gas resources, which have recently provided a major boost to US natural gas production, are also available in other world regions. These include France, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, South Africa, Morocco, and Chile.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2015

The primary target markets for the truck are Europe, Australia, South Africa and Latin America. Entering the rapidly growing segment of midsize pickups is an important step in continuing our global growth path. Production of Renault’s 1-ton truck will begin in 2016 at Nissan’s plant in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2016

In 2015, farms in Limpopo Province of South Africa, from which the biofuel for the flights was sourced, achieved certification from the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB), one of the strongest sustainability standards in the world. RSB certification provides a model for expansion of Project Solaris to larger scale production.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2009

The program, which is an initiative supportive of the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) Fuels/Hydrogen Program Area, is seeking applications in two areas: novel, non-precious metal hydrogen separation for use with coal-generated syngas; and general coal-based hydrogen production R&D. per year worldwide through 2030.

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