Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2009

South Africa is reinvigorating its efforts to develop automotive lithium-ion batteries, with the government’s Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) now determining the commercial feasibility of battery manufacturing in the country. Engineering News.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Steel is responsible for around 7% of man-made greenhouse gas emissions every year and is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Government and corporate net-zero commitments are pushing the steel industry to cancel out its emissions by 2050. The steel industry cannot afford to wait for the 2040s to start its transition.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2022

Veolia has been a major supplier to the pulp and paper industry since the 1960s for HPD black liquor evaporation systems. Since then, Veolia has more than 450 installations worldwide for mills in Brazil, Indonesia, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa and several European countries.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2021

Fayalite (Fe 2 SiO 4 ) with extraordinary high heavy REE (HREE) contents in ultramafic cumulates of the Vergenoeg F-Fe-REE deposit (South Africa) provides the unique opportunity to study REE systematics in olivine. While some data for Mg-rich olivine exist, REE data for Fe-rich olivine are almost absent. —Brandt et al.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

But, like in many countries globally, electric vehicles (EVs) are currently priced out of the reach of most domestic consumers, while some countries in Africa, including South Africa, struggle with power outages and logjams on railways and at ports, making it difficult for global executives to invest in EVs on the continent.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2021

The CP hydrogen-powered locomotive pioneering project, first announced in December 2020, will retrofit a line-haul diesel freight locomotive with hydrogen fuel cells and Leclanché's European-manufactured lithium-ion batteries to power the locomotive's electric traction motors. —Anil Srivastava, CEO, Leclanché.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Full scope CO 2 emissions will be one of the lowest in the industry, the company claims. Headquartered in Australia, ASI’s membership includes metals industry companies, national aluminum councils from Austria to South Africa, and automotive manufacturers such as Audi, BMW and Jaguar Land Rover.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2022

Currently, approximately 75% of global vanadium supply is sourced from China, South Africa, and Russia. We see a lot of parallels on where the vanadium industry is now versus where the lithium industry was 10 years ago. We believe that in the next 10 years vanadium will be the ‘new lithium’.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

Describing its product goals and tracking progress toward its 2020 manufacturing priorities in its 2012 Sustainability Report , General Motors reaffirmed its commitment to further reduce the energy used and the environmental impacts of building and operating an automobile. Manufacturing energy use and emissions. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

during steel manufacturing. In a 2007 paper presented at the XI International Conference on Innovations in the Ferro Alloy Industry (Infacon XI), a team from the US EPA, the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT), and SINTEF Materials and Chemistry (Lindstad et al.

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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. Europe is rapidly becoming a leading hub for the manufacture of and market for batteries and electric vehicles. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2020

Sales compiled from 1996–2003 by producers in Europe, Japan, USA, and South Africa (not including China and Russia) showed that, on an annual average basis, 80% of the SF 6 produced during this period was consumed by electric utilities and equipment manufacturers for electric power systems. —Simmonds et al.

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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. In turn, complex components for the automotive industry make up about half of that.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Volkswagen is taking a further step to develop market potentials in Africa. Volkswagen South Africa is forging ahead with this initiative in Rwanda together with Volkswagen’s Kenyan partner DT Dobie based on current experience from the establishment of production in Kenya. Rwanda does not have an established vehicle industry.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2024

Rivian (RIVN) is adding an industry vet to its team with the launch of its next-gen electric models coming up. Attracting industry talent ahead of R2 launch As Rivian looks to expand into new markets, the EV maker is adding industry talent from top-tier companies. However, it isn’t planned to launch until 2026.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2018

Rwanda does not currently have an established vehicle industry. In addition to Rwanda, the Volkswagen brand is also active at three other locations in the Sub-Sahara region: the company has been manufacturing vehicles in South Africa since 1951. Vehicle assembly began in Nigeria in 2015, and in Kenya in December 2016.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Optimal Energy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with EDAG, a German automotive full service supplier, to industrialize the Joule. The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa (IDC), as potential investor, is party to this Memorandum. Earlier post.) The IDC is currently an investor in Optimal Energy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2017

To support integration of the Protonex fuel cell propulsion system into its UA Plant aircraft, FlyH2 has partnered with Epsilon Engineering, a South African engineering and manufacturing services provider. Project work is partially funded by the Government of South Africa as well as the South African agriculture industry.

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Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The document said that “Coal India must diversify its business and must explore prospects in sunrise industries, electric charging pods, electric vehicles etc.” ” India imports coal mainly from Indonesia, Australia and South Africa. The Ministry of Coal has finalised an agenda document for the year 2021-22.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The pilot project, which will form part of Volkswagen’s operations in Rwanda, was officially announced today by Thomas Schäfer, CEO of Volkswagen Group South Africa and responsible for the Sub-Sahara Africa Region, in the presence of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Rwanda, Right Honourable Dr. Edouard Ngirente.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 29, 2024

ACMA , the apex body of the Indian auto component industry, has shared this data from its Global Automotive Aftermarket Research Report , conducted in partnership with leading advisory firm Ernst & Young. New Delhi: The size of the Indian automotive aftermarket that was USD 10 billion in 2023 is expected to grow by close to 1.4

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Driivz

AUGUST 1, 2023

The EV charging ecosystem, comprised of EV manufacturers, EV charging station manufacturers, and EV charging network operators among others, understands that interoperability made possible by standards and protocols for EV charging and communications is essential to everyone’s success. When was CCS developed? and Canada).

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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

MARCH 10, 2017

The goal of the strategic alliance is to bundle the expertise of both car manufacturers with a view to jointly developing vehicle components and possibly also vehicle concepts. Through subsidiaries and associate companies, Tata Motors has operations in the UK, South Korea, Thailand, South Africa and Indonesia.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 30, 2021

In 2019, we wrote an article raising the alarm that South Africa’s inertia in incentivising the adoption of electric vehicles could make it miss out on the incredible opportunities presented by the electric vehicle revolution.

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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. This is an important milestone for SDC as a company.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Pecotic, a China auto industry veteran, has had a previous stint with JAC when it briefly sold a diesel truck here a decade ago, as well as WMC (Foton) utes and MG, which is part of Chinese manufacturing giant SAIC. “We will be bringing [to Australia] whatever vehicles go through the R&D centre for mature markets,” he added.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 22, 2021

South Africa’s Rubicon Group enables transformative sustainable and industrial technologies across the energy and manufacturing sectors in Africa and other emerging markets.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Tesla exceeded its production plan by producing 13,091 vehicles, including the first Model X vehicles, despite a one-week shut down to expand manufacturing capacity. Faced with growing demand for Powerpacks and Powerwalls, the company accelerated plans to expand manufacturing capacity. R&D spending remained above Q3 2014.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2015

Shell and Professor Gordon Murray go back way further; Shell sponsored the first car and engine Professor Gordon Murray ever built, in South Africa, when he was just 19. Gordon Murray Design was established in 2007 to develop an innovative manufacturing technology trademarked iStream. Why a petrol car? —Project M website.

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Blink Charging

APRIL 6, 2023

Despite a strong vehicle manufacturing presence in the United States, and solid support from the current federal government, Ernst & Young has categorized the country as being “stuck in low gear” when it comes to EV adoption. Again, we can break this down into the consumer side and the manufacturer side.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

As of 20 July, participating governments include China, France, Germany, Japan, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Electric vehicles have become a strategic focus of the automotive industry during recent years, but the technology is still nascent in the global marketplace.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2010

Tests have shown that the quality of components produced using this method is equally as high (or better) than those manufactured using conventional processes. Tests have also shown that manufacturing cycle times can be reduced by at least 40% using SLM and other laser-based generative methods. Konrad Wissenbach, ILT. million (US$4.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Alliance, described the partnership as “ one of the most productive in the auto industry. ”. Since then, the combined portfolio shared between the partners has more than quadrupled to 13 projects in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 31, 2022

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